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Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now
MojoKid writes Late last week, Google quietly began inviting people to opt into the beta channel for ChromeOS to help the company "shape the future" of the OS. Some betas can be riskier than others, but Google says that opting into this one is just a "little risk", one that will pay off handsomely for those who crave new features. New in this version is Chrome Launcher 2.0, which gives you quick access to a number of common features, including the apps you use most often (examples are Hangouts, Calculator, and Files). Some apps have also received a fresh coat of paint, such as the file manager. Google notes that this is just the start, so there will be more updates rolling out to the beta OS as time goes on. Other key features available in this beta include the ability to extract pass protected Zip archives, as well as a perk for travelers. ChromeOS will now automatically detect your new timezone, and then update the time and date accordingly.
I'm just curious why Slashdot of all places doesn't have the "SystemD Just Forked The Linux Kernel" article up yet? That was breaking news quite a few places today. You can even read it on distrowatch.com for those who haven't heard yet.
I love my Chromebook. I use Chrubuntu and/or Chroots in developer mode when I'm not traveling. The ARM architecture has incidentally given me an incentive to become much better at compiling from binary. If you don't want to do that: there are plenty of x86/x64 Chromebooks to choose from.
Every time I go to the airport I powerwash my device and reinstall from .tar.gz backups when I get home.
ChromeOS is lovely, it always makes me a little sad when I have occasion to go back to XFCE or LXDE as my primary on-boot.
Contextless, textless, unlabelled icons I take it then?
No separation of data using small 1 pixel width dividing lines, shading, or anything really, just one big flat white (or whatever colour they choose) mess?
Difficulty in easily identifying data because it's not highlighted or accentuated in any particular way?
Yep, love that material design. It's clever stuff.
Out of interest, do you have any evidence that they are tracking people's every move online? I think it would be a big scandal if it were true.
For example, obviously they scan Gmail accounts to deliver targeted advertising, but do you have evidence that if you use a Yahoo email account they monitor the content of your email?
What about your Facebook posts, do they read those? Or your online banking sessions, do they track them?
Or did you mean something else by "tracking your kids' every move"?
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