Post by trog @ 01:04pm 21/11/09 | 32 Comments
The official release isn't until next year, and there's a lot of interesting tidbits that have come out about it, including some information about how all data will be stored in the "cloud", and it will only run browser-based applications.
There's a lot of debate as to the merits of such a system - some people believe there's little value in an operating system that is essentially just a gateway to the Internet, and the cloud advocates think it's the Next Big Thing.
Nats got the feeling that a few people might be interested in checking out, so he's built a virtual machine image of ChromiumOS that lets you boot it up in a VirtualBox VM. You'll need some basic understanding of how VMs work, but if you're interested in checking our how ChromiumOS is progressing you can grab the build right here.
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Posted 01:38pm 21/11/09
Posted 01:44pm 21/11/09
Posted 01:53pm 21/11/09
That's one of my primary concerns
other than that I think its a great idea, I don't really see why most applications (except of course the obviously resource intensive stuff) couldn't be run on the tubes
Posted 01:59pm 21/11/09
Posted 02:03pm 21/11/09
Only in places like Australia... and its not like we represent much of the OS market share.
last edited by Alt_F4 at 14:03:40 21/Nov/09
Posted 02:11pm 21/11/09
Posted 02:13pm 21/11/09
Yeah wireless pricing will be Chrome OS's biggest hurdle in Australia...
Oh and what happens when you hit a dead spot? Does your whole computer cease to be functional?
Posted 02:18pm 21/11/09
Posted 02:28pm 21/11/09
Yeah I was just saying that in case anyone was wondering if there was anything more to it, but it doesn't look like there is.
Posted 02:36pm 21/11/09
express gate
last edited by whoop at 14:36:27 21/Nov/09
Posted 02:53pm 21/11/09
If it wasn't for its Internet connection my computer would be little more than an advanced DVD player.
Posted 02:57pm 21/11/09
Posted 02:58pm 21/11/09
Posted 03:06pm 21/11/09
I can also write documents and edit movies and photos from my camera without the internet and I can do the whole shebang while I'm out in the middle of the congo without having to worry about a satellite uplink just to be able to transfer the gorilla mating ritual from my camera to my laptop for later study back at the university.
But hey, you internet addicts go right ahead and jump all over this s*** like a fat kid on a lollipop.
Maybe fast using their gigabit connection, lets see how well it performs on a standard s***** australian connection.
last edited by whoop at 15:06:05 21/Nov/09
Posted 03:05pm 21/11/09
ChromeOS VMDK (1 file; 280.66M) vs Ausgamers 306.344M (321,225,326 bytes)
Posted 03:12pm 21/11/09
Your argument doesn't even make sense. Pretty much everyone's computer connects to the internet whether its through ethernet or wifi. If i turn my laptop on at home, work or uni.. it always connects to the relevant wireless networks. It actually makes sense if you think about it. The internet is now more or less synonymous with computer/computers/computing.
Posted 03:22pm 21/11/09
The internet is synonymous with porn, pedophiles and movie piracy if the main stream media are to be believed, not current computing, I don't know about you but like I said in my previous post, I can edit videos, transfer photos to my PC, write a document and do all kinds of s*** without being connected to the internet.
Posted 03:28pm 21/11/09
Posted 04:39pm 21/11/09
But on topic: the problem with *everything* being an Internet based service is that your entire experience depends on you having a reliable fast Internet connection. This can't be the case when you're out and about. Wireless 3G based Internet is far from 100% reliable and the coverage from a lot of carriers is nowhere near 100%.
I would rather write a document offline then save it to the cloud rather than relying on a connecion to simply *write* the document.
Posted 04:43pm 21/11/09
anyone else is wrong
Posted 04:51pm 21/11/09
Posted 05:04pm 21/11/09
Posted 05:08pm 21/11/09
my post count = 9 x 1 million
i hardly think yuo are correct
Posted 06:28pm 21/11/09
So unless you pronouce that pegasoos then I don't know.
I think "asoos" is just a marketing thing so people don't get the impression the boards are "suss" (suspicious)
Posted 08:18pm 21/11/09
Posted 10:33pm 21/11/09
Probably why they're trying to fix that potential problem by buying cable. Maybe making their own ISP?
Posted 12:06am 22/11/09
for netbooks- this would be a pretty ideal os
wireless internet however is bloody outrageously expensively in aus :/
Posted 01:02am 22/11/09
I'm sorry but your argument has not merit. Google are clearly targeting a very specific market of computer users with Chrome OS. Users that open their browser to log into Hotmail/Yahoo Mail/GMail/Facebook/MySpace/Tweeter account, as well as work on the occasional office document. These are the most basic functions that any netbook are quite capable of performing. No where have Google talked about video-editing or photo-editing, and in any case, who would be silly enough to use a tiny netbook for any of these tasks? Chrome OS is not designed to be capable of everything, as with Windows, instead it is an OS designed for the very specific task of delivering online content through a browser and office document editing, which I've learnt from my experience in computer retail, is what the majority of people buy a computer for.
As for Google talking about a computer that's more like a home appliance, is it really that hard to imagine a computer that boots up almost instantly? As I've already said, this is a computer designed for a very specific purpose. Your washing machine relies not only on power, but also on water. If your water pipe bursts your washing machine will be unusable. Likewise with your dish washer. Your mobile phone is also an appliance and is reliant on a carrier network. If the carrier network is down your mobile phone will become useless. Likewise with your landline phone.
Posted 02:02am 22/11/09
Google is on a mission to promote the Cloud as your new hard drive, and the web as the new application framework. Its their obvious agenda - they already dominate the web and can get around all the pesky OS s*** that they'd need to tackle to steal share from MS.
But its a really hard sell. We host data online for a couple of clients but in general the people we work with just don't want their core business information online unless its necessary (like for a web app).
It's a layer of security that they don't want to yield and I don't blame them. People want to own their datas, to know its safe and that their IP is as secure as possible. We recently performed an exercise to limit our own operational dependency on the internet.
Posted 03:23am 22/11/09
Also, they do you want you to say A-soos.
Posted 12:35am 26/11/09
Also there are other flaws with this theory as well, to access these Google applications you need to authorise. Just like my G1 phone, its based on the cloud principle. Thats all fine and dandy but every now and then the phone fails to sync/authorise with google and i cant even do such a lowly thing as check my calender. Thats pretty annoying as its such a small unintensive but extremely important app that I cant use it at all until I find a Wifi area then it will reauthorise - some reason it fails to authorise on 3G.
Least if the power goes out i can access and work on my files on my laptop or check my calendar.
Where i see a market for chrome is really cheap and underpowered internet pcs at shopping centres, thats about it. Putting it on a netbook is a waste of a netbooks resources.
Posted 09:09am 26/11/09
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