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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.
For the user's benefit of course! We promise! Don't be evil and all that!
Seriously, Chrome OS will never amount to anything.
Honestly, the most noticeable change was that the font changed on the tabs and URL bar.
So they downmodded you for it. Google can't make money MINUS tracking you (bigger money). Trackers pay the most vs. say, std. ads. Gee, I wonder who the NSA got their ideas from for their tracking & surveillance systems (which nobody likes since nobody likes someone's nose up their ass constantly). Of course, some stupid goof paid shill working for Google's going to "sound off" here, or the other advertising stooges (wastes of LIFE that they are, tracking and infecting us also no less as well as stealing our bandwidth we pay for too) - in that case, pre-empting their bullshit? FUCK OFF asshole.
You know, by now I'm used to articles in the mainstream news who confuse an operating system, applications (which may or may not ship with an operating system), and the look/feel that a particular GUI puts on both. However, a web site like Slashdot - self-proclaimed home of "news for geeks" - should be able to do a little bit better.
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.
HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK, is this for real?
I've just been reading The systemd Project Forks the Linux Kernel from DistroWatch, which I presume is what you were referring to.
This isn't an April Fool's Day joke, is it? It is dated March 30, so I have to assume that it isn't.
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Systemd is utterly destroying the Linux community. It's doing this so much better than Microsoft or SCO could have ever done.
I would like to run this as a secure browser in a VM that I can revert to a clean state regularly.
The only ChromeOS VMs I've seen are very old. Anyone know of a good source for current ChromeOS as a (vmware) VM?
both on phone and labptop
or not..keep clicking till something happens...undo or regret.
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.
So they downmodded you for it. Google can't make money MINUS tracking you (bigger money). Trackers pay the most vs. say, std. ads. Gee, I wonder who the NSA got their ideas from for their tracking & surveillance systems (which nobody likes since nobody likes someone's nose up their ass constantly). Of course, some stupid goof paid shill working for Google's going to "sound off" here, or the other advertising stooges (wastes of LIFE that they are, tracking and infecting us also no less as well as stealing our bandwidth we pay for too) - in that case, pre-empting their bullshit? FUCK OFF asshole. When all you have is downmods, you've got nothing and you know it as was the case here too in rotten downmods issued http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Why not merge with Android, already?
My Chromebooks are pretty poor performers and as the months move on they get slowly worse.
Why haven't Google already replaced the ad-hoc, stripped-down Linux distribution with their much more sucdessful other ad-hoc, stripped-down Linux distribution?
Kriston
You don't know anything about what you're talking about, per the usual. It looks like you've been listening to gweihir too much. There were at least two other projects looking to replace init, and half a dozen more providing some form of process tracking. Lumping two things that you hate and fear together must feel good, but systemd's development and adoptation has been a public process, and both systemd and pulseaudio offer important technical improvements (that apparently you don't understand). I realize all you do here is go off on ill-informed rants, but this one is only tangentially connected to reality; you might want to dial back the frothing a bit. I mean, you don't even use Linux — what's it to you?
P.S. That bit about "by the time he's done the kernel will be just a VM running on top of systemd!" was hyperbole, right? Because otherwise it's so far beyond crazy that it makes me wonder if you know what those words mean.
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