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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Chrome OS is not going to be the same thing as Ubuntu or any other "user friendly distro" out there. It's going to be the Linux Kernel on top of Google's custom user land and GUI. I don't know about the rest of the world but I spend most of my computing time inside firefox reading articles and corresponding with friends and colleges via the internet. I imagine if I owned a netbook thats what I'd be doing with it except instead of sitting at a desk I would most likely be on the road with it, at a friends house or even in the back yard and thats where Chrome OS takes over. We're not talking about high powered multi core desktops with terrabites of storage. We're talking about netbooks running atom and arm processors with solid state storage and a gig of ram and a light weight operating system build for web browsing and taking advantage of online services.