The news has been abuzz about Google's upcoming OS. Many people have been arguing reasons for and against the system, its viability in such a market, and, if the OS is successful, even the morality of the company who may be trusted with even more private information than it already has. Well, here's another reason for Chrome OS: it could bring more jobs in the area of Linux IT.
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2009-05-15
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By this rate, Chrome OS will invent the warpdrive by next Tuesday.
Wait... you mean I shouldn't have just setup an entire LLC and website devoted to doing nothing more than consulting for ChromeOS-based IT contracts?
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2005-09-27
I havn't seen an influx of Unix Developers when OS X was released. Just a bunch of Mac Developers... I expect the same with Chrome. They won't be Linux Developers but Chrome Developers. And that is if chrome is successful and not just an other Linux Distribution. IF Crome OS is just an other Linux Distribution it may end up just like Corel did a decade ago.
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No one is forcing you to use the command line, no one is forcing you to become a Linux admin; do us all a favour and run the post and ask, "does this make me look like a dumb ass" before subjecting the net to your random brain farts.
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Unfortunately I don't have the expertise to do this... but wouldn't it be great to have a plugin for comment systems that would read your text and judge whether it makes you look like a complete moron, and then warns you before you hit "submit" Of course that could be great for some laughs if there were some bugs in it that added things to a Comment to make someone look MORE like a moron, instead of less 
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Apparently you don't want to be a Windows admin either. Some of the more powerful tools for Windows are run from the command line.
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2009-07-17
Google just *might* add a couple of things to Linux distributions that are apparently amiss (even in Ubuntu), such as compatibility with a truly *HUGE* range of hardware configurations; a database of device drivers on par with XP available on the level when it "just works" from the get-go.
Google might use its name to get more people on the Linux side; those who are not exactly command-line enthusiasts and makefile warriors. If Google succeeds in creating a true 'buzz' around Chrome OS, that will mean a lot, because so many people are just after the 'cool' stuff - and those people can (and will) contribute too.
There is a chance it will happen as well as it might just not. Kudos to google for taking that chance.
Member since:2006-01-06
It's probably not in google's interest to support all imaginable hardware configurations. Hardware is becoming more and more commoditized anyways.
If anything google might have enough clout to be able to define some hardware certification standards for Chrome OS. And hopefully hardware vendors will start to take linux drivers more seriously for peripherals.
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2008-05-03