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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. Re:Marketing..... by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I was hoping for this "custom gui" to be something innovative at a deeper level, such as a replacement for "X" rather than a replacement for "gnome/kde" or the window manager. That might be more than just marketing hype.

  2. Re:Air by xtracto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    btw
    FP hohoho

    --
    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
  3. Re:Air by Vectronic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    btw
    F5 hahaha

    you got beat by 3 minutes for First Post.

  4. Re:Marketing..... by Jurily · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From what I have read this is Linux with a custom GUI on the front end.

    If they're happy with that, they'll fail bigtime. If they really want something big, they'll port the Haiku base system to the Linux kernel or something.

    I'm serious. The sheer number of abstraction layers between the bare metal and a typical Linux GUI application is astounding. The kernel itself has drivers, file systems, schedulers, etc., then there's glibc (horribly bloated in itself, and probably destined to remain so for compatibility and portability), then glib and X (don't get me started on that one), then you finally get to make some choices: OO or not? GTK or Qt? GNOME or KDE? If Qt, v3 or v4? Do you want Python with that? Java? How about sound? Alsa, pulseaudio, jack, gstreamer, xine?

    And here's the fun part: a typical desktop has all of these, because there is no standard, and every choice excludes some vital application you absolutely must have to be a decent distro (Amarok, K3b, Firefox, Pidgin, whatever).

    Now, compare this to the Haiku API: Simple, clean, use it and you have everything you need. The result? You get a usable desktop in 5 seconds under VirtualBox. How long does your OS take to boot up?