Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 8th Jul 2009 05:23 UTC
From NYTimes: "In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head. It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year. Read more for a quick observation on the announcement.
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2005-08-07
If you want X based stuff, use another Linux based system... X plainly sucks, and will always suck.
There are however already technologies that allow you to use virtualized OS's via a web browser, those would work fine I would imagine if you really gotta use archaic software.
EDIT: Also, just for the record, there were some blogs a little while ago about Qt being ported to the browser already... so a lot of the best X based apps should be relatively simple to port to ChromeOS...
Edited 2009-07-08 14:07 UTC