Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:48:58AM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>
> 'nuff said. :-)

Is it my english that is not sufficient ? [Note: it is written "Google
Chrome" while I think it should be "Google Chrome OS"]

"The software architecture is simple - Google Chrome running within a
new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel."

If I read correctly, this is not Plan9 based. And it seems a
"terminal" will be available as open source, while the apps and
the data will be in a cloud... that is not controlled by the user.
(I have nothing against closed source---I make it too---. But the
terminal is definitively not the bulk of a cloud. Everybody being
allowed to build and sell terminals, ok. But terminals to access
what belonging to who?)

The majority of the current thinking is re-discovery of Plan 9
architecture: separate terminal, CPU and fileserver. And Plan9 was
thought with SMP from the beginning. So why all is always "Linux
based" ?  And no, I have no problem accessing my data wherever I go,
because it is _my_ data.
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