Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 8th Jul 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by rlem6983
Google's recent move of revealing the Chrome OS to a suspecting public has put a great many people on alert. Some say it's a major privacy issue, some say Google oughtn't to become more and more monopolistic, while others think that the wide array of popular Linux distributions shouldn't become even more fragmented than it already is. "Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
Instead of treading its own path, Google should have sought to leverage the stellar work already carried out by Mark Shuttleworth and his band of merry coders and tied its horse to the Ubuntu cart."
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gOS still uses a fairly standard Linux operating system, so conceptually this will be very different.
Also, I'm pretty excited about O3D which is part of Chrome already - maybe we'll finally be able to play a wide variety of decent games on Linux.
Also, they can control the direction of the browser much more, and continue to make more innovations in that area. gOS mostly just takes what is already available, and offers it to OEM's and end users... nothing too exciting at all.
With the innovation Google has already presented in the past, I am very much looking forward to seeing what exactly they come up with.