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Debian Linux-based Google Chrome OS debuts, Goes Open Source
Google's new OS marries Linux and Chrome
Google Open Sources Flash-happy Chrome OS
Google Chrome OS - Do We Want Another Monoculture?
Chrome OS User Experience
Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS
ChromeOS Says Tear Down This Network Regulation Wall
Debian Linux-based Google Chrome OS debuts, Goes Open Source
desktoplinux.com reports:
Google unveiled its Debian Linux- and Chrome browser based "Chrome OS" today and announced the open-sourcing of the project. Due to ship on netbooks in late 2010, the lightweight, cloud-oriented Chrome OS offers seven-second boot-ups, works only with flash storage, and borrows from projects including Moblin.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3436052937.html
Google's new OS marries Linux and Chrome
linuxfordevices.com's Eric Brown reports:
Google announced an open source operating system aimed at netbooks that combines the Linux kernel with its Chrome browser. Google will release open source code for the Google Chrome Operating System later this year and ship a final version in the second half of 2010, says the company.
Although similarly derived from a Linux kernel and offered as open source software, Chrome OS is separate from Android, says the blog by Google VP, Product Management, Sundar Pichai, and the appropriately named Google Engineering Director Linus Upson.
Running on both x86 and ARM processors Google Chrome OS is said to offer a simple architecture that consists of "Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel," says the blog.... Google is working now with OEMs to bring netbooks to market next year
For the full report visit here:
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Google-Chrome-OS/
Google Open Sources Flash-happy Chrome OS
The Register's Cade Metz reports:
It's a big week for Microsoft. Which means Google has made a point of spotlighting a product designed to undercut its Redmond arch rival.
Today, via webcast from its Mountain View headquarters, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai and Engineering Director Matthew Papakipos unveiled an early version of Chrome OS, the much-discussed browser-based operating system the company first announced this past summer. This initial build has been open-sourced as the Chromium OS, with Pichai saying that outside developers will be able to work hand-in-hand with internal Google coders on the same code tree.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/google_chrome_os_unveiled/
Google Chrome OS - Do We Want Another Monoculture?
The Register's Cade Metz says:
Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much-discussed browser-based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness.
After all, this isn't something you can load on any PC. And it's not much of an operating system. You can't load local applications - not even one.
As part of its crusade to move more and more of our lives onto the web - and onto its own web services in particular - Google has shunned the desktop entirely. And in doing so, it has shown a certain Apple-like quality....
But the ultimate irony is that after years of criticizing Microsoft for bundling its OS with its browser, Google has nearly made them one and the same....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/google_chrome_os/
Chrome OS User Experience
chromium.org says:
This section describes the motivations, assumptions, and directions behind Chromium OS's user interface design. Its goal is to explain the current design in a way that further work can be developed in-style, and so that our assumptions can be challenged, changed, and improved.
A system UI that uses as little screen space as possible by combining apps and standard web pages into a minimal tab strip: While existing operating systems have web tabs and native applications in two separate strips, Chromium OS combines these, giving you access to everything from one strip. The tab is the equivalent of a desktop application's title bar; the frame containing the tabs is a simple mechanism for managing sets of those applications and pages. We are exploring three main variants for the window UI. All of them reflect this unified strip.
Reduced window management: No pixel-level window positioning, instead operating in a full-screen mode and exploring new ways to handle secondary tasks:
Panels, floating windows that can dock to the bottom of the screen as a means of handling tasks like chat, music players, or other accessories.
Split screen, for viewing two pieces of content side-by-side.
Web applications with the functionality of desktop applications
Enhanced functionality through HTML 5: offline modes, background processing, notifications, and more.
Better access points and discovery: On Chromium-based browsers, we've addressed the access point issue by allowing applications to install shortcuts on your desktop. Similarly, we are using pinned tabs and search as a way to quickly access apps in Chromium OS.
While the tab bar is sufficient to access existing tabs, we are creating a new primary access point that provides a list of frequently used applications and tools.
Search as a primary form of navigation
Chromium's address bar and the Quick Search Box have simplified the way you access personal content and the web. In Chromium OS, we are unifying the behavior of the two, and exploring how each can be used to make navigation faster and more intuitive.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience
Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS
Gizmodo reports:
Until today, Google's Chrome OS has been little more than a wordy concept. Now, finally, we truly know what it is, what it looks like, and how it works..... So! Here's what we knew going in....
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks" and "most of the user experience takes place on the web." That is, it's "Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel" with the web as the platform. It runs on x86 processors (like your standard Core 2 Duo) and ARM processors (like inside every mobile smartphone). Underneath lies security architecture that's completely redesigned to be virus-resistant and easy to update.
Like I said, there were plenty of questions. Onwards.....
To read more, click here.
http://gizmodo.com/5408504/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chrome-os
ChromeOS Says Tear Down This Network Regulation Wall
ZNet's Dana Blankenhorn says:
An Australian friend wrote yesterday with a question:
"I really can't see the point of a cloud-based OS for the general user. The added cost in using it doesn't seem worthwhile.
"It would take me over 6 months to upload my data at my connection speed not to mention that ISPs here in Australia have now included uploads as part of your total usage which for me would be exceeded for those 6 months.
"So can I ask - why choose ChromeOS ?"
For some answers, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/yjogzyt
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