From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:12:52 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200907080748.n687mwYO005690@localhost.localdomain>, <20090708084855.GA1371@polynum.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1627e90a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 07/08/2009 02:21 PM, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > 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. I think, Google did not choose Plan 9 due lack of device drivers, poor IPv6 support and confusing redundant fragment of code lurking around in /sys/boot or 9load, but a compared with Linux a compact, clean and much more efficient FreeBSD could definitely have been a better choice. -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/