Comments on: Google’s Chrome OS Should “Just Work”

By: risto

risto — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:08:35 +0000

IF it’s a fork of Ubuntu it will just work, as all my Ubuntu installations just work, BUT, Chrome OS won’t be “just-another-ubuntu-fork” like IE. Mint, but will have totally new windowing system and all the things over it.

So even if it’s a fork of Ubuntu, it maybe isn’t similar or compatible with Ubuntu and other typical Linux distros.

gOS was/is in fact for of Ubuntu, and it’s rumoured to be sponsored by Google. Still gOS didn’t “just work” even when Ubuntu “just works”.

By: Steve Morris

Steve Morris — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:04:56 +0000

If it is a fork of Ubuntu It should just work, as mine did (compared to windows)

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:14:01 +0000

I find the "“Google’s Chrome OS Should “Just Work”” rather amusing; it gives the impression that it might work, or barely works! Anybody else get that idea, or is it just cynical me?!!! I have tried Chrome, but not over-impressed really. Who am I to criticize!!!

By: Steve Morris

Steve Morris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:24:41 +0000

Regarding my earlier comment, I have seen reports speculating that Chrome OS IS a fork of Ubuntu

By: Steve Morris

Steve Morris — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:25:10 +0000

Why don’t Google just partner with Ubuntu one of the most popular distros.

By: barry

barry — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:50:29 +0000

if it’s a windowing system built on linux that ‘just works’ the obvious comparison is OS X, not Vista. OS X being a windowing system built on BSD that ‘just works’, after all.

By: risto

risto — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:04:19 +0000

Fail. Google Chrome OS is not a new operating system written from scratch. It uses very mature, robust and fast operating system called Linux, and adds only applications on top of it.

What about killing Windows? That’s not about technical aspects at all. If it was, nobody used Windows XP/Vista, which is ancient and not usable when compared to most of it’s competitors like OS X or Ubuntu. Apple’s OS X is (very slowly) “killing” Windows, since they really know how to do marketing and have enough bucks for that too.

Still Google is even more bigger fish than Apple. Only sky is limit when Google really starts the marketing of new shiny netbooks and integrated desktop systems on 2010. I think Google is now either biggest or at least among the biggest marketing channels. You should really consider this.

And even if “killing” Windows was a technical question, you should really try Google Chrome, Google Earth, Google Search, Gmail, Picasa and others and then compare to their ancient and ugly counter pairs made by MS. You should really see the difference.