From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:48:55 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20090708084855.GA1371@polynum.com> References: <200907080748.n687mwYO005690@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200907080748.n687mwYO005690@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15a2001a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C