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[News] A Look at Google's GNU/Linux Distribution, Adoption in Ubuntu Netbook Edition

  • Subject: [News] A Look at Google's GNU/Linux Distribution, Adoption in Ubuntu Netbook Edition
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:08:24 +0100
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More Images Of What Chrome OS Will Probably Look Like

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| Chrome OS â Googleâs lightning quick 
| operating system thatâs based entirely on 
| the Chrome browser â is due out the second 
| half of this year (check out our report 
| earlier this evening on its progress).  
| Weâve seen some demos of it in action, and 
| even tried out an early version ourselves, 
| but there are still plenty of question 
| marks as far as how people will actually 
| use this thing. After all, while the 
| browser will be able to accomplish most 
| tasks, users are going to want some degree 
| of multitasking, and thereâs also the 
| question of how users will be navigating 
| Chrome OSâs basic file structure.
`----

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/more-images-of-what-chrome-os-will-probably-look-like/

The New Browser Wars: Will Ubuntu drop Firefox for Google Chrome?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/14/the-new-browser-wars-will-ubuntu-drop-firefox-for-google-chrome/

Clearing the air around Ubuntu and Chrome 

,----[ Quote ]
| Amidst reports that Ubuntu would ditch 
| longtime default browser Firefox for 
| Google's Chrome browser were put to rest 
| with a resounding "sort of." 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Castro was also quick to dispel any rumors 
| that the potential browser switch was for 
| the desktop build of Ubuntu. If Chromium 
| is chosen, it will only affect the netbook 
| edition of Ubuntu 10.10. 
`----

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Clearing-the-air-around-Ubuntu-and-Chrome

Good Google!

,----[ Quote ]
| They have the rising-stars of browsers, 
| OS, and are stronger than ever in search 
| and advertising.
| 
| [...]
| 
| At the moment, this is happening on mobile 
| things, small mobile things. With ARM it 
| can spill over to immobile things, too. 
| How many hundreds of millions of people 
| will have to know GNU/Linux and 
| derivatives work before the monopoly is 
| broken? My estimate is one. Why? Because 
| everyone knows a few people so the 
| contacts the in-folk have are just about 
| everyone.
`----

http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/16/good-google/


Recent:

Google's Chrome OS to include a media player

,----[ Quote ]
| Google has confirmed that its upcoming
| lightweight, browser-centric Chrome OS
| operating system will include a built-in
| media player. In an interview with
| ArsTechnica, Matthew Papakipos, the
| engineering director for the Chrome OS
| project, says that the developers are
| currently working on "integrating a whole
| media player into Chrome and into Chrome
| OS". The Chrome browser, for example,
| already includes support for Flash and HTML5
| audio and video playback, however, users
| also need to be able to "play JPEGs and MP3s
| and PDFs and all that stuff when you're off
| line" said Papakipos.
`----

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-s-Chrome-OS-to-include-a-media-player-911475.html


Google's Chrome OS: Tomorrow's Desktop Today?

,----[ Quote ]
| Sometime in 2010, Google will release Chrome
| OS, its take on a netbook operating system.
| It will be far more than just that though.
| It's an entirely new take on the desktop
| operating system. While a final version is
| still months away from release there's
| already enough of Chrome available that we
| can begin to see what it's going to look
| like.
|
| [...]
|
| You also won't need to be on the Internet to
| view or play some media files. We already
| know that Chrome OS will be able to read
| Adobe PDF files and play Adobe Flash videos.
| Now, we know that Google is integrating a
| media player into Chrome OS that will play
| at least MP3 music files. It will surely
| play other media file types as well, but
| exactly what those will be we don't know
| yet. We do know that you won't need to be on
| the Internet to play them. So, for example,
| if you have an MP4 movie on a USB stick,
| you'll be able to watch it even if you're
| not online. Again, the intent isn't to have
| you click on a movie file and have a media
| player pop-up to play it. Instead, the movie
| will start playing in a browser window.
| Chrome OS is all about integrating
| everything into the Web browser experience.
`----

http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/93787/googles-chrome-os-tomorrows-desktop-today


Web apps vs desktop apps

,----[ Quote ]
| Things to watch:
|
|     * Google Native Client
|     * Google Chrome OS
|     * HTML5
|
| Iâm sure there will be a lot of exciting events this year. Google
| is planning to release a simple OS centered around web browsing and
| web apps. It is intended for netbooks, but will surely impact the web
| platform, by proving that the shift towards the web apps is already
| happening today.
`----

http://valums.com/web-apps/


Platform Independent

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| The sugar on top comes through with web applications. No matter what platform
| I am running there are many online application suites that promise to bring us
| OS independent applications. Google and Microsoft are both working on this, and
| in the future we can expect
| more of it. What does this mean?
`----

http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2010/01/platform-independent.html


Google talks Chrome OS, HTML5, and the future of software

,----[ Quote ]
| I had done my best to sort out the why's
| and wherefore's of Google's first consumer
| OS effort in my initial launch coverage but
| I still had many questions about the past,
| present, and future of the project.
|
| [...]
|
| EB: The way that we've thought about this
| for a while is if you read the Chrome OS
| blog post that we did in July, and you read
| the Chrome browser blog post that we did in
| September in 2008, they're very similar.
| They're essentially the same thing. And the
| reason is because when we were building
| Chrome the browser, we realized that
| everyone is spending their time online. So
| essentially we were trying to build
| something that mimics this operating system
| feelâthere's a task manager in Chrome, and
| that was one of the early additions to
| Chrome.
`----

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/chrome-os-interview-1.ars
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