Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners

nk497 writes "Google has announced the hardware partners for the Chrome OS — so we can expect to see netbooks running the operating system next year from the likes of Asus, Acer, and HP, as well as Toshiba. Dell didn't seem to make the list, at least yet. Google also said it had teamed up with Adobe, which could mean Google is looking to include the Acrobat.com web-based software suite in some way."

Comments

Down with G$$GLE

[Anonymous Coward]

The G$$GLE-borg wants to take away our freedom with their shitty corporate crapware. Thank goodness for Microsoft, I support the feisty Microsoft freedomware guerillas against the evil G$$GLE empire!

Re:Noooo

[larry bagina]

Don't worry, it's probably flash!

Re:I would absolutely love this

[BadAnalogyGuy]

This came to mind when reading your post.

Re:I would absolutely love this

[Yvan256]

You're saying "it was virtually indistinguisable from our usual company its PowerPoint template" like it's a good thing.

Re:I would absolutely love this

[cerberusss]

Thanks for your absolutely heart-warming post! I enjoy the support this board gives me! I have a talking, pink pony which just configured my Linux laptop its WiFi! :D

How Many Years....?

[jDeepbeep]

For how many years will the Chrome OS stay in beta? Place your bets.

Translation please!!

[E IS mC(Square)]

Which language is this? I would love to translate such seemingly insightful post to English and enrich my life with this knowledge.

Re:Air

[enrevanche]

in a place where a dup can go unnoticed 8 hours later, "earlier this year" is an eternity

Re:Air

[DuckDodgers]

Sounds great. Get to work.

Security

[heffrey]

What really excites me about the new Google Chrome OS is the security aspect. As Google said on their official blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html:

And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

The Chrome web browser has been a complete revelation in terms of security with a track record of no security problems whatsoever. Since they are building Chrome OS on top of Linux then "completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS" presumably means redesigning the security architecture of Linux. Since Linux is GPL then clearly Linus will be able to accept all of Google's changes and redesigns and then Linux will have no security flaws ever again. I'm quite sure Linus will be delighted to do so.

It would be such a joy to have an OS that never needs a security update and I'm delighted that Google will implement one.

Google really are ever so kind and generous in doing this for the world.

Re:... so are they evil NOW?

[Degro]

Showing ads isn't evil and adblocking software is asinine. The days of a 100 pop-ups are long gone.