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What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For

Posted by kdawson on from the chrome-detailing dept.

MojoKid sends in a piece that takes a step back from Google's much-analyzed OS to look at what it is trying to accomplish. "Last week, Google open-sourced its Chromium OS project, more than a year before the operating system is scheduled for release. In doing so, Google hopes a variety of developers and companies will become involved in the project, and has pledged to release regular updates as well as a comprehensive log of bug reports and fixes. This article takes a look at Google's design vision for Chromium, the unique benefits it offers, and a bit of why Google is throwing its hat into this particular ring in the first place. Chromium, after all, is a Linux-based OS entering the smartbook/netbook market at a time when the product segment is already being well served by a variety of Linux distros, XP, and Windows 7. In the midst of all these options, do we need another operating system? We just might."

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  2. Re:More, more! by bonch · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's an OS that is pointless. For $300, you can already get a Windows 7 laptop that will run all the web apps this OS will run on top of popular native apps. The only reason this is getting any media play is that it's from Google. The media LOVES Google and pretends everything they do is new, exciting, and innovative. Google is releasing a crippled Linux distro that can only run a web browser, and it's being treated like something amazing.

    Apple already tried the web app thing with the iPhone, and people demanded a native SDK. This is doomed to suck.