Google announces Chrome OS details and releases Chromium OSP
What can I say that I haven’t already about Google’s Chrome OS ? Not much. When it was originally announced, most tech reporters had their opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of having a cloud-based operating system where nothing is stored locally and every bit of information has to be trusted with the cloud. Some also said it was far too early to form a reasonable opinion until details were released. Well, Google pretty much lays it out for everyone in a new video as well as its official blog. Have I changed my mind since? Unfortunately, not one bit. What’s worse is that getting the Chrome OS experience is going to come at a relatively high cost: you have to buy new hardware in order to run the operating system. Chrome OS won’t replace Windows or Mac on your desktop or notebook.
Chrome OS still has another year to go, but the Chromium OS open source project was also announced by Google early for the benefit of developers. The focus here is applications since the OS is going to rely on web apps and not the software you’re used to using on your current computers. Google also seems to be over-concerned with security, which is always good news, and details some of the methods in which it plans to keep your information safe and sound.
For now, let me step aside and allow Google to explain all of this in case any of you are still scratching your heads.
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Didn’t bill gates have that idea once of everything being stored on microsoft’s hard drives?
Everything you do at facebook is stored at facebook….only it doesn’t cost you a dime
This is a little different. There are plenty of things we do now that gets stored on a server – like Facebook or Gmail. Our pics, emails and everything else isn’t stored on our computers. With Chrome OS, everything will be stored on Google’s cloud: files, documents, pictures, software and everything in between will be on a server. The downside is if that server goes down or there is a temporary outage, it will effectively render your computer temporarily useless.
In response to another comment. See in context »“What’s worse is that getting the Chrome OS experience is going to come at a relatively high cost: you have to buy new hardware in order to run the operating system. Chrome OS won’t replace Windows or Mac on your desktop or notebook.”
Those statements are 100% false.
Google Chrome OS can be built on top of the current version of Ubuntu Linux. Google themselves state Ubuntu as a current prerequisite for building Chromium on their own documentation site.
From http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os :
“Prerequisites
You need to have Linux. We currently support the following:
* Ubuntu (Hardy 8.04 or newer, Karmic 9.10 recommended)
* An account with root access (needed to run chroot and modify the mount table)
* Chromium prerequisites (needed to build a Chromium-based browser as part of building Chromium OS)”
If you’re a lifetime Windows user who knows nothing other than pointing and clicking, building Chrome is probably not for you, although there are step-by-step instructions at their site.
Either way, it shouldn’t be too hard for anybody to find a tech-minded friend to help them through the steps.
it’s very modern. zen almost. attachment is the cause of all sorrow. but if our lightness comes from not being responsible for our own data, our own OS, then who is responsible. Google! do they really want to be the patriarch of everyone’s data? sure the data mining potential is huge (in aggregate, of course) but doesn’t this sound like a customer service nightmare?