Chrome OS equivalent

[rocketflame]

With every one talking about Chrome OS, am I the only person to think it is stupid? The way I see it, its just another Linux distro, but without any software except for a browser.

Here's what I'm thinking.

1. Install Ubuntu in Virtualbox
2. Remove EVERYTHING, except for firefox
3. Remaster
4. Done.

You get your own Chrome OS, (minus the chrome, but firefox is so much better anyway), it should be REALLY fast since it is so stripped down, and you own your data, not google.

How does that sound?

[vishzilla]

I think gOS Cloud is trying to achieve the same

check out http://thinkgos.com/cloud/index.html

[rocketflame]

When did that come out? its the same thing!

weird... and of course google is going to get all the credit for their "inovations"

[Tibuda]

You can also uninstall Firefox and install Chromium.

[Technique13]

im sure there will be something special that sets it apart, but yeah i dont like this whole web application thing either.. the web lags..

[vishzilla]

gOS announced it long time back!

http://thinkgos.com/company/index.html

In December 2008, Good OS announced its second product, Cloud, a small browser operating system, to be shipped on the GIGABYTE Touch-screen Netbooks which will run Cloud and Windows XP together.

[fitzydog]

So do you think that once the Beta for Chrome comes out, Ubuntu should make an alternative to it? Like the whole cloud thing and all. Not the netbook remix, but a stripped down browser OS....

:?:

[rocketflame]

no.

if you want stripped down garbage that can probably run on a pentium II (hey, win7 can), then go with google chrome, otherwise, i'll stick with a complete OS that is still usefull when my internet goes down (which happened a couple of days ago).


EDIT: link to win 7 on pentium II in case anyone is interested
http://www.pcworld.com/article/166992/windows_7_hits_a_new_low.html

[voteforpedro36]

With every one talking about Chrome OS, am I the only person to think it is stupid? The way I see it, its just another Linux distro, but without any software except for a browser.

Here's what I'm thinking.

1. Install Ubuntu in Virtualbox
2. Remove EVERYTHING, except for firefox
3. Remaster
4. Done.

You get your own Chrome OS, (minus the chrome, but firefox is so much better anyway), it should be REALLY fast since it is so stripped down, and you own your data, not google.

How does that sound?

You'd still have to have X, a login manager to get into a session, themes for Firefox/GTK that Firefox uses, etc, etc...

In other words, it wouldn't end up so stripped.

[fitzydog]

yeah, I guess I'll just stick with the Asus Xandros netbook thing....

<random> I wonder if Windows 7 will run on a modded xbox.....

[swoll1980]

I don't understand what all this cloud stuff is about. It's like having a freaking dumb terminal. Who the hell wants a dumb terminal?

[gonzomalan]

I don't understand what all this cloud stuff is about. It's like having a freaking dumb terminal. Who the hell wants a dumb terminal?

cloud computing isn't as minimal as being at a console/terminal/cli, it's just a very bare OS/environment where it's not expected that you're going to being using a lot of software on your computer, but rather using a lot of internet programs to get your needs met.
example: using google docs instead of OOo or MS office. the advantages are that you risk losing less if your computer crashes, because your work is in the "cloud", and you leave a smaller footprint on your computer because you're downloading/updating less programs. hence, this is why netbooks are prime for cloud computing.

[madjr]

google OS will in be able to run native linux apps, not just web apps (but will run these webapps in ofline mode also). It will be highly integrated with google wave, gmail, gchat and google docs

if you want kde or gnome , then the ports will be available by the time is out.

also it will be similar in concept to jolicloud (and moblin)

http://www.jolicloud.com/


now the question is on what will the innerworkings be based (apt, rpm, something different, what????)


http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/chrome_os_context