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>> http://www.jconline.com/article/20090708/NEWS09/90708007
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> No, actually not.
...which is kind of my point. ;-)
> The Internet (the master source of information - the
> one that's never wrong) told me that the Chrome OS will just be another
> desktop environment for Linux.
The article above states the same thing.
> Which is reasonable, it's probably pretty
> much easier than carving the whole OS from wood and they'll get theier
> part of OS-markets pretty much faster. But they should call it Linux if
> they really base it on Linux (due to the license Linux is using - AFAIK
> license is one of the main reasons OSX is based of FreeBSD).
Indeed. Google aren't the sort of people you'd think of doing a real OS.
From what the article says, this is a trivial Linux front-end. (Indeed,
I suspect it's probably going to consist of little beyond an ordinary
Linux distro with Chrome instead of a real desktop manager.)
The article states "Google is going for Microsoft's financial jugular
with this move". Erm, no, not really, no. This is aimed at netbooks; why
would M$ care about that? It's not where they make their money. Perhaps
it's where they might *like* to make money some day, but currently every
single netbook I've seen is running Linux anyway. (Unsurprising, given
that the whole point of a netbook is to be as cheap and nasty as
possible, and Linux is free...)
Looks to me like an excuse for somebody to write a news article. It *is*
a slightly odd more for Google though... [Hey, I guess they know a thing
or two about usability?]
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