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Chrome is for porn
By Reclaimer77 on 10/28/2009 11:17:18 AM , Rating: 1
Discuss.




RE: Chrome is for porn
By randomposter on 10/28/2009 11:20:44 AM , Rating: 2
It would certainly be a great LiveCD distro


RE: Chrome is for porn
By kextyn on 10/28/2009 11:37:11 AM , Rating: 2
Ya, the netbook folks would love that.


RE: Chrome is for porn
By Yawgm0th on 10/28/2009 11:41:49 AM , Rating: 2
The Internet is for porn...


GIMP?
By randomposter on 10/28/2009 11:20:09 AM , Rating: 2
How is GIMP relevant to the netbook sector?




RE: GIMP?
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 10/28/2009 11:21:29 AM , Rating: 2
Why not; it's free.


RE: GIMP?
By randomposter on 10/28/2009 11:25:47 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
requires just 256MB of RAM and 1GB of HDD space

Free in terms of cost maybe, but not free in terms of resources ...


This is an OS not web browser
By cochy on 10/28/2009 11:23:37 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
The open source browser


People are already confused...




By Brandon Hill (blog) on 10/28/2009 11:25:41 AM , Rating: 2
Thanks. It's so easy to get mixed up in the Chrome browser and the operating system. Google really should have given it a new name.


By Reclaimer77 on 10/28/2009 11:27:04 AM , Rating: 2
woohoo yet another Linux distro. Why am I supposed to be excited again ?


Big change?
By Noya on 10/28/2009 11:29:30 AM , Rating: 2
Shouldn't it be "big chance"




RE: Big change?
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 10/28/2009 11:33:37 AM , Rating: 2
I blame Obama ;)


Woah there
By 052323 on 10/28/2009 11:37:46 AM , Rating: 3
This is absolutely not the official Chrome OS. It's a fan-created linux distro. It even says on the footer "Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service provided by SUSE Studio. See the license."

Christ, how oblivious could you guys be. The file isn't even hosted on google servers, the webpage is a simple google site, there's been no announcement from Google, and the applications included don't line up with the entire point of Chrome OS. Sheesh.




Tracking?
By noxipoo on 10/28/2009 11:38:39 AM , Rating: 2
Does this thing track what I do like the browser?




Downloading...
By Marlonsm on 10/28/2009 11:38:54 AM , Rating: 2
I'll put it in my Android virtual machine.
Just to see how good it is and if it can really increase Linux's marketshare.




By astralsolace on 10/28/2009 11:43:16 AM , Rating: 2
Google Sites is their free web hosting application. The fact that it's hosted on a Google Site page does not make it an official Google release of their still-in-development OS.

/facepalm

Please delete this article.




Default desktop...
By Xenokyn on 10/28/2009 11:55:38 AM , Rating: 2
GNOME instead of KDE = FAIL

Also, as an avid user of Arch Linux I prefer a base install that allows you to choose your default desktop, as well as a distribution forces you to become competent in understanding the basics of Linux before you can use it as a desktop OS.

Forget the *buntu's, we have Windows and Mac for EZ-Mode OS's. Linux is best left to the users willing to spend time learning the inner workings of the OS, which is after all what separates the 3: complete code/configuration transparency(which only Linux has).




By drycrust on 10/28/2009 12:06:56 PM , Rating: 2
I do wonder if this is a case of poor timing, with Ubuntu's 9.10 being released just about now. In addition, the information provided seems scant.
Does it have an instant messenger? I'm guessing it does, and that it is Pidgin, which (up to the release of Ubuntu 9.10) was the best "out of the box" IM available to Linux users (my experience anyway), but that IM doesn't have Gtalk voice capability. And does it do Gtalk voice at all?
Why does it have Openoffice 3.0 and Gnome 2.24 when the latest stable versions are 3.1 and 2.28 respectively? What is so difficult about including the latest versions of these? This means they want us to download a "beta" version of their OS and THEN update everything?
Does it have Synaptic or a similar central point to get authorised software? Again, this is essential for users to know.
And why can't it be used as a live disk? Ubuntu can, many other Linux distributions can, and is it safe to try using it as one? Many people like to use Ubuntu in flash drives too, so can this?
This really looks like it is either a "rush" job or some sort of inhouse project completed maybe a year ago and someone decided to release it before they binned it.




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