Google OS

http://www.slate.com/id/2222564/pagenum/all/#p2

Slate seems to think that it’s going to be a dud. While I like the idea, I’m not sure that I am willing to turn over the keys to my entire life and PC to Google. Maybe if I bought a netbook and never needed any of my legacy software, it could work, but I don’t think so.

Chrome OS is a threat to Linux, I think, but not MS.

[Jay C] http://www.slate.com/id/2222564/pagenum/all/#p2

Slate seems to think that it’s going to be a dud. While I like the idea, I’m not sure that I am willing to turn over the keys to my entire life and PC to Google. Maybe if I bought a netbook and never needed any of my legacy software, it could work, but I don’t think so.

Chrome OS is a threat to Linux, I think, but not MS.

I think that Chrome is built on Linux

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform

Chrome OS will primarily be launched on netbooks and other internet-driven, portable devices. If one uses Google Documents and some of their other apps, it will make these more accessible…even without an internet connection. Also, it will have more speed than Windows. I think it will be very hard from them to break into the PC world…but we’ll see.

You’re right, Jim…it’s Linux based.

Are you going to buy [whatever - I know there’s no cost for the various Linux distros] RedHat, Mandriva, or get Google’s Linux OS?

Personally, I’d probably lean more towards Google’s than the others - it depends on the support that Google will provide. But I think we’re going to see a lot of the smaller Linux distros fold as a result of ChromeOS.