Its had really little coverage... I've been expecting great things from Google Unix, Linuix, Windows and Mac have all had many years of experience creating operating systems, but i still think they're do a great job (and for free too!) I've used Ubuntu before and I believe in Google Chrome OS will be much the same (since its based on Ubuntu) Are they aiming to make huge performance tweaks like they have with the Chrome(safari) browser .. are they planing to do anything other than stick the Google Sticker over the top of Ubuntu and then replace the browser with Chrome. They mention the 3 S's: Speed, Simplicity and Security, but does it live up to any of these? Has anyone had a chance to try it and compare it to Ubuntu, if anyone uses it regularly I'm keen to know more. I might use the iso as soon as I can, but it would be good to get any feed back / news on features before I do. http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-os/google-chrome-os-download-iso.htm
I think the features are really great. The boot faster and easily less than 10 secs and Chrome notebooks use advanced technology to help prevent malware and viruses from accessing your data.
Having everything locked into a browser just seems weird to me. But, on the other hand, it's a great solution for low power netbooks. I've got a netbook, and thinking about it, all I really do is use chrome + open office from time to time.
GOOGLE IS THE NEXT MICROSOFT, this is not just about a cool quotation but in reality google is really working hard to achieve this target, at initial stage the main success of Microsoft was the Windows 98, and after that Windows Xp, but now a days due to the very high speed internet, people spend more time on internet rather then using there PCs with internet, so the google chorme is a platform which relates all the activities of daily life on internet like for example google docs, and many more for more details watch this video on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw
Microsoft hit the jackpot with their OS and abused their monopoly power by releasing a large number of sub-standard "upgrades". If Google make a mark in the OS industry, it won't be by copying Microsoft.
Google shipped my a Cr-48 (with ChromeOS) as part of their pilot program in mid-December. As a student, I use it about 4 hours a day. However, it does require a paradigm shift as the entire operating system is limited to the bro.wser. I wrote about my first week experiences here (http://www.johnciacia.com/2010/12/26/a-week-with-the-cr-48) If anyone has any specific questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. P.S. ChromeOS is NOT based off of Ubuntu.
okay... still havent tried it yet. Installing VMWare now to give it a shot. Obviously I'm talking about the Google Chrome OS (not Android @bogs)... and the open source Chromium project (the link to the iso was on my 1st post) 4 hours a day!! great, you must be quite familiar with it by now. Yes your experience is exactly what I'm looking for, what did you manage to do with it? I want to use my machine mainly for Dev (C++ and Java), will I be able to fire up things like Visual Studio and Eclipse (or alternatives) on it, or even codeblocks (which works on Ubuntu)? What sort of applications currently work on it, was it extremly fast? Are they planning to make a 64bit version? (so I can make use of many gigs of ram in tri-channel) Apparently according to blogs and wikki it is based on Ubuntu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS So if you experienced a look and feel that wasnt anything like Ubuntu, they must have made quite a few changes (unless these sources are wrong.. which they could be). If its not base on Ubuntu, it's still using the Linux kernell isnt it (Since its an open source project, but I'm guessing... I still havent had a look under the bonnet) --- I see, I just read you're blog about it, seems its not for "John the developer" so proabably not for "Mike the developer" either
I've talked with some of the project managers, engineers and "ninjas" and they have specifically stated that it is not Ubuntu based. Yes, it is running the Linux kernel, but they built their own GUI (that has nothing gnome/kde/xfce/etc). ChromeOS was not designed to run programs like Eclipse. In normal operating mode, you have no access to the local filesystem. The idea is to be completely on the cloud. That being said, I am able to switch my Cr-48 into developer mode which gives me access to a full bash shell (which I would assume would let me compile programs from source [but not without A LOT of work]). However, I'm not sure if this will be a feature once the product hits the market. For what it is (a cloud oriented operating system), it works great to take to class or the coffee shop. However, I don't foresee myself getting rid of my PC any time soon. As a side note, it takes a few seconds to restart and about a second to resume from standby.
Unix, Windows and Macs are NOT free. ChromeOS is NOT based on Ubuntu. EDIT: I looked at the Wikipedia article which states that it is but that's basedon a blog post by someone from 2009 using, as proof, three packages which are not part of the normal Linux or Ubuntu install and must be downloaded/installed before use. ChromeOS is based on Google's longtime operating system that they have used internally for more than a decade.
False. Their internal operating system "Goobuntu" is a modified version of Ubuntu. Which has nothing to do with ChromeOS.
@infinitas - Not what I was talking about. I was talking about their version of Linux that runs the search engine. Saying that is actually a stretch, too, because it's from their long experience with Linux and doesn't resemble the search engine at all. Mark Shuttleworth denies Google will ship a version of Ubuntu.
I was refering to the Google OS system / the open source project being free (obviously not Mac OS, Windows or Unix), sorry if that wasnt clear enough for you. .. I hope this isnt their only OS they hope to bring out in the near future (but just to use as an iPad OS rival). I hope they do bring out something that's more application orientated and not Internet orientated. I was truly looking forward to trying it, but I'm a bit disappointed. Its probalby a great OS for Tablets where most of the time, all you want to do is use the internet, but its not for me
You don't know what you're talking about. There are 64,000 ChromeOS notebooks in the wild right now for testing.
I was tempted to get one of those but sadly, it was only given out in US only as a way to test out the units and operating system.