I recently installed Chrome on my Mac, and I have to say that it starts really fast (detectably faster than Firefox, for sure…) I still can’t adopt it as main browser, since I’m too addicted to Firefox extensions (and at the moment nothing can beat the wonderful extensions system of that browser).
However, extensions are growing also for Chrome. Let’s wait and see. If I’d have a good extensions for blog posting, as Scribfire, just to start… š
Google didn’t do a good job at explaining the intended use of Chrome OS and many people wondered if Google’s operating system is an alternative to Windows. The goal is to build “an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web”.
Nice and brief article that can help to put the new Google OS in the right perspective. Briefly, this OS can’t be seen as competitor to most used operating system: it simply lacks a lot of features to allow such kind of comparisons! Conversely, it came with a number of peculiarity that can be very interesting in selected fields, such as (just to say one) netbooks.
It may be taken as an excellent example of the intrinsic flexibility of linux, don’t you think so?
So 2010 looks set to be a very exciting year. In addition to delivering Ubuntu experiences with both existing and new OEM partners, we will be working with Google on Chrome OS based devices.
It’s certainly an exciting thing that Google OS is taking shape. I think that the simple fact that a huge company invest on linux, far from being a problem for the open source community, can bring some new perspectives and some fresh new air on the linux world. And it’s certainly needed, IMHO. Even more good, is discovering that Ubuntu is working with Google in this project…
I mean, Email and chat (Empathy, Evolution), Internet (Firefox… could you imagine a linux distro without it..?), Photos (F-Spot…).
Admittedly, the purpouse of the page is also to present Ubuntu to people that are not “geek” or linux experts. Anyway, why not to stress a bit more the specific Ubuntu features?
Just my two cents… š
No doubt, one of the man who is capable of continuous surprises (and a good sense of humour, together with the precious ability of “not taking himself too seriously”, which I do like a lot) is Linus Torvalds… š
“The KDE community has fixed over 10,000 bugs and implemented almost 2,000 feature requests in the last 6 months. Close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors…”
These are numbers quite impressive š
Overall, I think that both Gnome and KDE have reached a really good level of maturation. Linux on desktop is getting every day a more robust and realiable option…
