Google Launches Chrome Operating System

[marraco]

This is the standard I'm-so-smart question:

But, can it play Crysis?

 

[cruiseoveride]

But can it play Crysis?

 

[xyz001]

Everyone stop hating. This is an awsome idea, about time they did it. Of course it will work when offline...All the google apps do. A browser, a pdf reader, a media player and manager and an office suite, then you have what 90% of people use their pc's for. (gamers excluded)

Google FTW!

 

[thegh0st]

[citation][nom]Netherscourge[/nom]If it's using the Linux kernel, then isn't it still a Linux OS?Why doesn't Google come up with it's own x86 kernel?[/citation]
couldn't agree more. I thought that is what I was going to read about actually.

[citation][nom]sicundercover[/nom]Just because it has a Linux Kernel doesnt make it a "Linux OS" no one calls Windows "NT" but it has a NT kernel. It just means it has a Linux Kernel.[/citation]
I don't know about you but I know just about everyone I know called NT 4.0 simply NT. Back then you were usually running one of the following - 95(b/c)/98(SE)/NT. No one called it 4.0 that I know. Yeah, Yeah I know there was also a 3.5 and 3.51 to but that's going back a little far even if it was still NT.

and if I remember correctly it was microsoft who pushed the community away from using NT as the name with Win2K which they tried to make more main stream and user friendly with better plug and play support instead of plug and pray. but it didn't quite work out for Win2K thus paving the way for WinXP. not that WinXP wouldn't have come anyways.

anyways as my point was - back in the day windows with this kernel was called NT.

hmmm could Win7 be NT 7.0? Nah it's actually NT 6.1. but it is the 7th variation of NT based OS's. Otherwise if NT has no meaning as gate's claimed why even call it Win7? and not thought up a better name? eh, I'm going off on a tangent. I'll stop myself here.

 

[thomaseron]

What about gamers? I think a new OS is about bl**dy time, since microsoft owns the PC-market.. kind of...

 

[7amood]

BRING IT ON...
Am in for everything google has to throw...

Am sure they'll think something regarding drivers and compatability.
when I saw the the title I was like O.O

 

[salem80]

Finally netbook's user found something lighter the the the heaver OS "Vista"



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[afrobacon]

this is definitely worth trying; the idea behind it is interesting to say the least.

 

[randomizer]

Just one more thing Google is going to take over. This is simply terrible but like usual people will accept Google with open arms.

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]Thomaseron[/nom]What about gamers? I think a new OS is about bl**dy time, since microsoft owns the PC-market.. kind of...[/citation]
Who needs expensive disk-based games when the quality collection of high falootin' Flash games on Tom's Games are just a click away? 😀


Wait, I mean D:

 

[Guest]

I'm sold if google can get the support of gaming developers.
Otherwise, i'll have to stuck with windows 🙁

 

[Marcus52]

'Back to basics' sounds good, but most people don't really want a truly basic OS. And Google is either high or lying through their teeth if they think making an OS more 'basic' will make it more secure. ESPECIALLY one designed from the start to run with the BROWSER as it's heart!!

'A new windowing system running on top of linux'. Can you say OSX (Tiger, Leopard, etc etc.), and any of a dozen Linux distros already out there? And, how does running a WINDOW GUI make an OS basic? These people have gone off in to never-never land, and believe it's a real world.

I use Google because it's the least bad search engine out there. Nothing else they've done has impressed me, and this doesn't either. In fact, it shocks me with disappointment in Google.

 

[Guest]

So when will the Google antitrust suite be launched for not separating the browser from the OS? Why are they forcing chrome on users of their OS? Sue their ass!

 

[anamaniac]

Is this Google's repsonse to losing some of their revunue to Bing.com by gaining publicity?
A few million to develop a new OS, $200 million back from advertising.

Regardless, it sounds interesting. However, I feel more than confident to run Win7 on a netbook.

 

[nitto555rchallenger]

It will probably be in public Beta for five years!!! 😉

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]bugmento[/nom]I'm sold if google can get the support of gaming developers. Otherwise, i'll have to stuck with windows[/citation]
I really don't see how this OS will be amenable to the kind of big-budget games that people use Windows for.

 

[jsloan]

i dont know, the more i look into it the more google os looks like just a linux distribution, google's. i'm happy with my fedora...

 

[jsloan]

i dont know, the more i look into it the more google os looks like just a linux distribution, google's. i'm happy with my fedora...

 

[Guest]

For those asking what happen when my internet is down take a look to Google Gears and you might find the answers of what Google is planing to do.


P.S. Google Gears is a browser plug-in that allow to use web apps offline