Comments on: The Theory Of Google's Chrome As An Operating System http://www.linuxloop.com/2008/09/03/the-theory-of-googles-chrome-as-an-operating-system/ Linux news, Ubuntu news, open-source software reviews, and Ubuntu tutorials Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:01:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: zaine_ridling http://www.linuxloop.com/2008/09/03/the-theory-of-googles-chrome-as-an-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-1414 zaine_ridling Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:08:28 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/?p=591#comment-1414 I completely agree! Except that Chrome is open source, and others are free to implement its features and code. Many users -- such as those over at Donationcoder.com's Forum -- are unaware of the paradigm shift that has been underway for a while now, which is that already most people use the web to access information and services through... their browsers. So whether you call it a 'desktop online' or 'online desktop' using localized webware, this movement -- along with virtualization -- downgrades the importance of which OS you use. But that's where it gets interesting, because already distros have been built to take advantage of this shift, gOS being one, but others built for portable and mobile devices such as the EEE PC and OLPC. What would a user want in this online environment? Security! Linux has that. How much are they will to pay for it? Linux beats whatever you pay for anything else. Need portability? Linux has that, too. You can even run around with Linux on a USB stick, and so on. Windows can't do any of that. OS X would probably send their lawyers out to your doorstep if you tried. I completely agree! Except that Chrome is open source, and others are free to implement its features and code. Many users — such as those over at Donationcoder.com’s Forum — are unaware of the paradigm shift that has been underway for a while now, which is that already most people use the web to access information and services through… their browsers.

So whether you call it a ‘desktop online’ or ‘online desktop’ using localized webware, this movement — along with virtualization — downgrades the importance of which OS you use. But that’s where it gets interesting, because already distros have been built to take advantage of this shift, gOS being one, but others built for portable and mobile devices such as the EEE PC and OLPC.

What would a user want in this online environment? Security! Linux has that. How much are they will to pay for it? Linux beats whatever you pay for anything else. Need portability? Linux has that, too. You can even run around with Linux on a USB stick, and so on.

Windows can’t do any of that. OS X would probably send their lawyers out to your doorstep if you tried.

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