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Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

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."

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  1. Marketing..... by ITJC68 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is this just smoke and mirrors. From what I have read this is Linux with a custom GUI on the front end. Depending on how they market it and which distro it is built from will probably dictate how far it goes. I use the *buntu and Suse variants of Linux on a daily basis. Unless this offers any real advantage I won't move to it even it I purchase a netbook with it I would probably format and load Ubuntu on it.

    1. Re:Marketing..... by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's a linux kernel, not necessarily a distribution in any meaningful sense. They could simplify it to the linux kernel, loader, some libraries, and chrome executable. I suppose they would need a shell, scripts, and helper apps for network config and dhcp, but For a browser-based internet device, 99% of a standard linux distro is irrelevant.

      According to Anandtech, which may be mostly speculating, ChromeOS is just enough Linux to run Chrome. All functionality will come from web apps. It's the thinnest of thin clients.

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  2. Re:Air by darkvad0r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm guessing this has more to do with flash than anything else. Maybe we'll finally get a flash plugin that doesn't suck on linux

  3. Re:what is Google's strategic intent here? by museumpeace · · Score: 5, Interesting

    btw, I should have linked the Moblin pages...there is a LOT of activity on their email feed for independent developers. http://moblin.org/

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  4. Re:I would absolutely love this by mario_grgic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How does your company feel about you keeping the presentation data on Google servers?

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  5. Re:Will Chrome OS be any different... by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As someone who has worked in banks and developed eBanking applications, mod this up... You have no idea how true this is.... I (as a developer) told them countless times not to develop for IE only. They didn't listen to me. However, they completely changed faces when a rich-ass Linux user (no kidding, I was surprised too!) called in to complain. Then they put fire under our (the developers) asses, because they wanted it fixed ASAP.