1) Why steal a candy bar if you could rob the whole factory 2) *nix is an absolute bitch to run, if they were smart enough to make it user friendly more people would use it 3) Because its such a whore (opposed to Windows which is 100 times easier to run), you have a truckload of extremely non-tech savvy people using windows, who make much easier targets than targetting a group of computer savvy people. It is no more secure, its only because smarter people use it and protect it more securely. You set your 5 year old kid up on a windows box, not a *nix box. Course it's going to get full of viruses. It's not rocket science to avoid viruses, I haven't had one in over a year; if you have no idea what you're doing, it's going to get filled up in no time. The same people that think google ads are actually links on the page not ads, the same people who download mp3s of some site which is SCREAMING scam, are the same people who always find themselves hacked and full of viruses. A poor workman blames his tools.
I forgot to say this in an earlier post. Quite frankly I hope Windows users stay away. They're already trying to ruin Linux by making it work like Windows. And now Microsoft, (via their bitch Novell), is trying to get .NET/Mono installed by default on some distros. I've dumped Ubuntu for that reason, among others. No. Whores are easier to run if you pay for them. You do pay for Windows, don't you? Like I said earlier. You wouldn't take the family van to a construction site. You'd use a Mack truck to haul big rocks. Windows is the family van. *nix is a Mack truck. My point exactly, and I hope it stays that way. Not true at all. You cannot maliciously install and run programs without jumping through a lot of hoops on *nix. And after jumping through all those hoops, if you managed somehow, you still can't bring down the system. *nix is far more secure than Windows could ever hope to be.
Nope. Apples and oranges son. No one was discussing Appliance OS applications. We were talking desktop or full fledge computing OSs of various kinds. You know since thats the kind of OS you are hoping Chrome will be to supplant windows. and sorry Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a kernel of Linux that utilizes a variety of web technologies to get functionality is most definitely NOT just another repackaging of Linux. You are demonstrating you don't have a clue about RIA and don't realize the full extent of what Google is aiming for much less how their browser plays into their strategy. Cough cough - servers. Still minority applications to the millions of windows machines being used everyday. Why would I? Are you going to claim that machine language is better because everything is derived from it? are you now going to deny that MS had nothing to do with the proliferation of computer technology by freeing up various vendors to use a GUI based OS? you are rambling off to various points for Unix even when no one is fighting against Unix. Pure crap. a graphical GUI utilizing a point and click is not merely a dumbing down of technology. For many applications its just plain more efficient. Go do some reading on Productivity and usability as it applies to user interfaces. By allowing multiple vendors to utilize Windows instead of locking into proprietary equipment ala Apple you can spin all you want it helped computer technology proliferate Get over yourself. UNIX is not the end all and be all of computer professionals. You sound more like a bitter old man clinging to his one specialty to beat on his chest and justify his existence over every one else. there are guys smarter than you and me building all kinds of great apps right on a windows based system and running on the same. They are computer professionals that don't have the time to write multiple posts on DP. What in the world are you going on about? You are so bent on your anti MS tirade you've lost sight of a simple fact. FIREFOX IS a windows application and owes its popularity in the fact that it runs on WINDOWS. How can you cite that as evidence of a real product for LINUX or UNIX? Jut because it also runs on other platforms? Oh boy you have really stumbled into showing your ignorance. IE doesn't have to go away for this to happen. It just has to become more compliant to standards and it has whether you like it or not. Take the rendering issue. if you know what you are doing IE8 is a ton load better than IE 6. I've found in fact that I have to do little to get IE 8 to match Firefox rendering. Perfection? Nope but getting so close it really doesn't faze me. Now IE 6 is a web builders nightmare. Thank God I am finally coming to the point where I am phasing it out completely. NO one was and you can claim anything you want. I've read you before and your links and blog confirm you as a clear MS hater. So what? We are talking about their OSs not their bottom lines. See? You give yourself away again. Your just a MS hater hoping against hope that MS would fail but enraged more and more because you know they won't. Of course the smaller newer company has a steeper rate of growth compared to the behemoth thats been around for decades . Thats always the case particularly in a down economy where one of the companies is disproportionately affected by retail and corporate buying. ah so Another windows user after all that smoke blowing.
Any how I am out of these long back and forths. When Google OS gets even 5% market share or maybe a year from now if it released on the present schedule it will be worth more discussion.
I think i very good idea and I want it! opefully they make a better OS than MS cause im sick of crappy windows
Then I'll wrap it up with what I said before. By your "observations" it's obvious you don't have a clue about anything outside of what Microsoft tells you to think and are unwilling to learn anything beyond that. Such a closed mind is typical of Microsofties and why arguing with them is fruitless. In a technical discussion the best they can do is whine about "Microsoft haters" and "Unix is old stuff" as if that were even remotely true and is the remark of an amateur.
i have seen the news about google chrome on the CNN. its fascinating that google is going to launch its own operating system. i hope the new operating system will be the online. we can make,build and redisign its all layouts and graphics with our need, google should also do better for games lovers. i am waiting for it.
GMail. GoogleDocs. Google Maps. Google follows the Unix Philosophy. There are many, many smaller applications and APIs you probably aren't aware of unless you are a coder. This is where ChromeOS can really pull things together. Part of the Unix Philosophy is to create small programs that do one thing and do it well. Then you can piece together these small things to create anything you want. If that's the idea behind ChromeOS, it could get pretty amazing. Here's how it could work. Google has an API for the web that also integrates with all their products. They also have something called NX (NeatX) which is similar to X Windows in *nix but a much cleaner implementation, fixing many of the problems with X which could allow collaboration of multiple computers among multiple users anywhere in the world! Now here's the Microsoft and Windows killer. It's called Native Client. Native Client allows you to run web applications on your local system using x86 native code. In other words, you could write a C or assembly language application and it will run just like any compiled application but served to you from the web and securely, too. After all, the web now is the OS. This is really exciting, brilliant stuff and, if ChromeOS runs anything like what I show here, Microsoft is doomed.
The mark of an insecure person is that they instantly go to the personal insults when challenged just as you did and continue to do. Anyone who claims that only those who work on Unix can be considered computer professionals is obvious as to their intellectual honesty. The hater stuff you owned and deserved. anyone can look at your present signature links and see the single narrow focus. Call me when Unix takes over the desktop or even if Google does. Until then its still a Windows world you are living in and the difference between us is that the day that is no longer true I won't be anywhere near cut up about it as you are because a I'll simply continue to use the technology that suits me without hating or falling passionately in love with software.
Perhaps decades down the track; however, they are still whole a giant market share and aren't going down the toilet yet.
Official Verdict: The day Google OS defeats Microsoft OS is the the day Bing topples Google as the no 1 search engine. You can't have it all. Regards wptheme
I dont think Chrome OS can beat MS. Its really based on linux and peoples are not aware from linux OS. So may be it takes some time to do it.
It is only for netbooks and laptops currently. And I guess Google OS wouldn't be able to kick Windows.
Many people have tried since from last 30 years but still it could not be possible for them to beat Microsoft in OS.
Lol! Windows users. Gotta love 'em. Another Windows user who can't handle the truth. As soon as they're backed up against a wall, it becomes about the poster and not the facts. So the truth means nothing to you. If you feel anything in my sig is wrong, show me. You can't. You won't. You'll fail. See, you miss the point and you'll never get it. For someone who doesn't care, you sure seem to care a lot. btw, you're using *nix right now over the internet. Whether you want to or not. I'll say it again. If you really knew computer technology, you wouldn't say anything you just said.