Comments on: Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry?

By: Canonical: Profiting From Google Chrome OS? | Hallow Demon Live

Canonical: Profiting From Google Chrome OS? | Hallow Demon Live — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:25:28 +0000

[...] wiping some egg off my face for not mentioning the Canonical-Google financial relationship in my earlier blog post. The fact that Canonical has a seat at Google’s financial table is [...]

By: FreeBooteR

FreeBooteR — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:37:58 +0000

Windows users can have their Google browser OS. I’ll keep my desktop OS thanks. Along with all my files, data, personal data, music, games, productivity software, etc.

Let the slaves be controlled. I know i won’t be.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:45:12 +0000

Lets think about this way depending if Chrome OS is based off Debian in any way you’ll still be able to run thing natively supposedly, but company are open source, and they contribute freely to what they want. I’d bet that Google is helping Canonical in one way or another. It’s just like When Google helped the Mozilla foundation get Firefox off the ground, and into the great browse it is today. It’s a 2 way street. The only reason there is contracts is to keep this hush hush until the product can have it’s big real. Personally I think that it’s great ideal with netbook to keep things in the cloud for now, and keep it light and fast. Remember how functional windows 95, 98 was, and it was mainly a simple interface, and great features. May have it been poorly executed on MS’s part. Most People complain how ling it takes to get going on Windows, and I’m one of them. Windows 7 is better, but not by much.

The whole goal is to get to a usable desktop ASAP. Ubuntu, and most other Linux distros achieve much faster boot times than windows out of the gate, and one of the easiest distros is Ubuntu. That might be why the 2 are working together.

It’s going to be interesting to see how Chrome OS evolves over the next year or so, and to see the big reveal. GIVE it time, and see what happens. Yeah be able to get away from things being on your HDD, but it also makes security, and data storage Gogle headache not yours. Plus there will be ways to sync the cloud data with another PC or what not. Be patient I’s still being DEVELOPED.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:12:29 +0000

ChromeOS stinks. I like surfing the internet, but I like locally installed Apps too.

By: Henaway

Henaway — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:56:36 +0000

Chrome OS = BIG YAWN.

Pre-installed only, no local apps, no local data storage, big fail. Too bad. I hoped it would be pretty cool.

By: Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry? | Unixster

Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry? | Unixster — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:36 +0000

[...] Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry? Friday, November 20, 2009 By jfeedor Google, as expected, has taken its Chrome OS effort and offered it up as an open source project called Chromium OS. As you may recall Chrome OS will target netbooks and other thin mobile devices — core markets that Canonical is pursuing with Ubuntu. Should Canonical be worried? [...]

By: Links 20/11/2009: EVO Game Console is Out, Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 | Boycott Novell

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:50:07 +0000

[...] Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry? Back in July 2009, my initial blog entry about Google Chrome OS suggested that Google may wind up stealing Ubuntu’s thunder in selected market niches. Fellow WorksWithU Blogger Christopher Tozzi took the opposite stance, insisting that Google Chrome OS will help Ubuntu. But by August, I had changed my stance a bit telling readers that Google was both a rival and a friend to Ubuntu. I stand by that statement. [...]

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:29 +0000

Of course not!

Chrome browser is a nice idea and I have tried it but dislike it. It is too minimal and lacks the degree of customisation that I like. So I have no intention of switching from Firefox.

Chrome OS is minimal. It isn’t even designed for a desktop or laptop; it is for netbooks and mobile devices. It simply won’t provide what most people need for everyday use.

Of course, maybe Canonical will learn something from the experience…like how to make stable releases.

By: Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry? |

Google Chrome OS: Should Ubuntu and Canonical Worry? | — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:02:44 +0000

[...] Google, as expected, has taken its Chrome OS effort and offered it up as an open source project called Chromium OS. As you may recall Chrome OS will target netbooks and other thin mobile devices — core markets that Canonical is pursuing with Ubuntu. Should Canonical be worried? [...]

By: dragonbite

dragonbite — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:23:52 +0000

In one part I read that the system is going to be read-only with EVERYTHING being stored online. If this is true and remains true then I see this working out to some degree because Google Chrome OS will stay in its niche, but if people want to expand/customize/add then they could go to Linux instead.

So I see less direct competition between Ubuntu and Google, and this makes some business sense now.

By: F. Fellini

F. Fellini — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:02:53 +0000

I see the beauty in google os. From a business perspective create a tightly integrated triangle of the makers os/software, hardware, and network service provider. Every one has their independent incentives to make money not tied into partner blood sucking (say iPhone anyone).

As for canonical providing help to google I think we all dig our own graves at some point in time. We just have to decide whether to do it with flair and dignity, or not. Canonical is a good sport and is creating a new category. I doubt that this is a competing category to the fat client which is what we all seem to want. They found a way to make the thin client idea work within the confines of stateless application, what can I say lets see where they go with this.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:42:27 +0000

After saying “all your data is stored on the internet” he should say “that kinda sucks”…