Imagine playing LFS via internets
Look, most users store their emails at gmail and they don't worry.
Imagine playing LFS via internets
Look, most users store their emails at gmail and they don't worry.
How barebones is the linux installation? I'd be curious just to try it just for that aspect.
i tried chrome os in my virtualbox and yes, its nothing but the web browser. but the idea of this is very interesting and i think it will gain success.
google is right about that people spent most of their times browsing on the internet. there's facebook, email, chats, forums, pornsites,... this is very good for quick checking your new emails etc...
but to have it as my ONLY OS, I would disagree. Imagine youre somewhere in restaurant with wifi access. that's nice, but how fast is that wifi? now your whole production speed depends on 16kB/s (just example) internet access...i can't imagine myself making some school work in google docs with such speed. i can't imagine doing anything in google docs at all... but there are users, who are doing only those things with their browsers. if you miss some IM client, just visit meebo and there it is.
i think my parents could use chrome OS perfectly - it would be extremly fast just for reading news and email. they don't render 3D objects and do not have to set up user policies...90% of users don't do these things...
i'd like this OS to be on usb drive and boot from there...in case i want to just check whats new on my favourite websites....
also since this project is open source, we can make sure nothing private gets to the internet...if there would be backdoors or some sending of private informations to google, people will demand to stop/deny it. only thing whats using right now is your google login...everything else depends on you
google is right about that people spent most of their times browsing on the internet. there's facebook, email, chats, forums, pornsites,... this is very good for quick checking your new emails etc...
but to have it as my ONLY OS, I would disagree. Imagine youre somewhere in restaurant with wifi access. that's nice, but how fast is that wifi? now your whole production speed depends on 16kB/s (just example) internet access...i can't imagine myself making some school work in google docs with such speed. i can't imagine doing anything in google docs at all... but there are users, who are doing only those things with their browsers. if you miss some IM client, just visit meebo and there it is.
i think my parents could use chrome OS perfectly - it would be extremly fast just for reading news and email. they don't render 3D objects and do not have to set up user policies...90% of users don't do these things...
i'd like this OS to be on usb drive and boot from there...in case i want to just check whats new on my favourite websites....
also since this project is open source, we can make sure nothing private gets to the internet...if there would be backdoors or some sending of private informations to google, people will demand to stop/deny it. only thing whats using right now is your google login...everything else depends on you
Ever thought of just opening Google Chrome or any other browser in your current operational system to do that? It's much easier, faster and makes much more sense than creating a totally new OS just to emulate on virtual PC every once in a while in order to check your websites. Actually in my opinion it would be just nonsense, why would you want to emulate a "OS" (that is just a browser) instead of just opening any web browser on your current to do the same thing?
Guys keep things simple, we don't really need to emulate web browsers running the Linux kernel on a virtual PC on Windows just to check our emails.
i was talking about case when you computer is turned off...
chrome os boots up in 15s right into my gmail account, win takes around minute including login,.... starting browser so there is some difference...
Well, you could also take your mobile phone off your pocket and type gmail.com in its default (or any other) browser, it's much faster and your phone is probably always on.
I still would never use Chrome OS (apart from trying to install it on mobile phones, just to say "hey a phone runs Chrome OS") anyway.
My phone already runs a Google OS and has push email from my Gmail account anyway so meh... Love my G1
You have to be connected to the net to do anything. It's going to appeal to people who are always connected to the net or always on the move with their netbooks. Built on linux.
There are people who simply use a computer for only online.
But for me it's pretty wank. I just cant see the point tbh.
Then again you could just get an iphone or another one of these fancy phones that does everything.
I'd never use it here, the internet is not stable enough to the point where i would entrust doing work online and risk loosing anything. Call me old fashioned but I like to have my homework on my computer in my room and if it blows up in my face near me then hell, i've only got myself to blaim for not backing it up.
It's a great idea, credit where credit is due and i'm sure there will be lots of people who will love and enjoy it. But internet failing with a deadline the next day. I cant imagine this will get adopted by many undergrads or school kids who rely on their pcs and have deadlines.
But I could be wrong, this could be the way forward for all I know and I could just be the old guy flaming it.
There are people who simply use a computer for only online.
But for me it's pretty wank. I just cant see the point tbh.
Then again you could just get an iphone or another one of these fancy phones that does everything.
I'd never use it here, the internet is not stable enough to the point where i would entrust doing work online and risk loosing anything. Call me old fashioned but I like to have my homework on my computer in my room and if it blows up in my face near me then hell, i've only got myself to blaim for not backing it up.
It's a great idea, credit where credit is due and i'm sure there will be lots of people who will love and enjoy it. But internet failing with a deadline the next day. I cant imagine this will get adopted by many undergrads or school kids who rely on their pcs and have deadlines.
But I could be wrong, this could be the way forward for all I know and I could just be the old guy flaming it.
There is an offline mode where stuff can be worked on without an internet connection a la Google Gears...
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