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Google just finished their presentation on their forthcoming flavor or linux and it was pretty damned interesting. For those that didn't follow it, here are a few take aways:
- All applications and data will be stored in "the cloud", i.e. at Google.
- The file system is encrypted, auto-updating, and read only, all major facets of the OS will be online through the chrome browser.
- Can't install binaries on the system.
- It will support HTML 5 and thus hardware acceleration, so 3D graphics and games will still be possible despite being an entirely online OS.
- Existing peripherals (usb drives, phones, etc.) can still be used.
- The OS is smart enough to know where to open a file, i.e. an xls will open up in Excel on Microsoft Office Online, PDF's open in Google Docs, etc.
- It will not support hard drives of any kind, all will be SSD's.
- Designed to run on Netbooks and push a new type of computing.
- You can already compile this yourself if you want, but you'll need to mod a netbook to get it to run perfectly as they're restricting hardware to a specific set of components to make sure everything runs perfectly ala Mac's and OSX hardware optimization.
- It's strictly going to be a companion device, not a primary computer.
Seems kind of interesting, I'm personally curious if this will eventually be able to tap into cloud compute services well, so that you could actually do serious, hd video editing on a netbook and only pay for the instances or compute cycles you use.
The next question is whether plugins are going to work properly ala Silverlight. Flash works though.
I'm intrigued, how about you guys?
- All applications and data will be stored in "the cloud", i.e. at Google.
- The file system is encrypted, auto-updating, and read only, all major facets of the OS will be online through the chrome browser.
- Can't install binaries on the system.
- It will support HTML 5 and thus hardware acceleration, so 3D graphics and games will still be possible despite being an entirely online OS.
- Existing peripherals (usb drives, phones, etc.) can still be used.
- The OS is smart enough to know where to open a file, i.e. an xls will open up in Excel on Microsoft Office Online, PDF's open in Google Docs, etc.
- It will not support hard drives of any kind, all will be SSD's.
- Designed to run on Netbooks and push a new type of computing.
- You can already compile this yourself if you want, but you'll need to mod a netbook to get it to run perfectly as they're restricting hardware to a specific set of components to make sure everything runs perfectly ala Mac's and OSX hardware optimization.
- It's strictly going to be a companion device, not a primary computer.
Seems kind of interesting, I'm personally curious if this will eventually be able to tap into cloud compute services well, so that you could actually do serious, hd video editing on a netbook and only pay for the instances or compute cycles you use.
The next question is whether plugins are going to work properly ala Silverlight. Flash works though.
I'm intrigued, how about you guys?
didn't anyone learn their lesson LAST TIME data was cloud stored?
