Today Google officially revealed its much talked about OS to the general public. Its not an official release yet and much will be changed in terms of UI and more featured will be added as it gets an official release sometime one year for now. For the time being the project and its source has been opened up to everyone to that developers can contribute to the project. As some of you might now, Google Chrome OS relies on Linux kernel and this will without doubt give a big boost to Linux kernel and all the OS and applications that depend on it. It is fair to say that this is the single most important news for Linux. The advertising and developers muscle of Google is likely to take Chrome OS and Linux a long way forward.
Chrome OS is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian that depends on a lot of open-source software like Host AP Linux drivers, PAM, Syslinux, IBus, ConnMan, XScreenSaver.
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Tanner
12/22/2009@Sigra – It’s built on Linux, so they can’t force you to pay for Chome OS (see Red Hat / CentOS). Many of Google’s service already have pay options, but you have to need, for example, >7.5GB of mail storage for it to be an issue.
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Jani
01/18/2010When did google ask you any money for anything?
I rather spend happily my € on things i want to buy, not to the accessory that makes them available. Like the illegal taxi drivers that give you a free ride to a hooker house . i dont care how the money splits behind the scenes.
Capitalism is a cool thing f.e MS’s purpose of existance starts to seem more like a warning to others than something that still wants to make things better.
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11/19/2009
this screams. PAY PAY PAY. after they get everone using it. everone depends on google for all service though it. = PAY PAY PAY. and I would rather have a system that has alot of abilitys instead of a drone dependant to google.