Behold, The Googlification Continues - Or Does It? (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Linux Journal looks into Google's recent announcement of Google Chrome OS. "Everyone thought the biggest news to come out of the Googleplex yesterday was the announcement that four of the company's most popular offerings Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk have left their long-held beta status behind, though the change appears to be mostly cosmetic, given the services well-established, if sometimes momentarily questioned, reliability. That news was, however, merely a foretaste of what was to come, as late last night the search giant revealed that it has even greater ambitions: to revolutionize the operating system."

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Googlification has reached LWN... ...apparently so.

Posted Jul 9, 2009 21:51 UTC (Thu) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link]

Odd. Here's the direct link:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/behold-googlification...

Behold, The Googlification Continues - Or Does It? (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 10, 2009 18:25 UTC (Fri) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link]

Of course I have executed such source code line in a Python interpreter. The result was actually interesting! I advise you try it too:

$ python
>>> print "Don't Be Evil"[6:]

Behold, The Googlification Continues - Or Does It? (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 11, 2009 20:34 UTC (Sat) by mosfet (guest, #45339) [Link]

http://codepad.org/ is your friend.

"codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool."

Er?

Posted Jul 11, 2009 15:56 UTC (Sat) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]

So an operating system that can't do anything but run webapps? Oh yea, people are going to pay for that.... not.

Remember webTV? Or Web tops? Or the myriad built-on-linux thin clients... one thing they all have in common: FLOP!

Just a lame move in to try to create a set of locked-in users. But I doubt there are that many stupid users/companies.

Er?

Posted Jul 13, 2009 15:14 UTC (Mon) by bockman (guest, #3650) [Link]

Don't know ... some year ago, I would have agreed with you, but now? Connectivity is cheap and everywhere - I'm now using ADSL from a village of about 600 ppl in South Italy.
How many peoples now have a PC - especially a netbook - only to use the web? And given that the main applications have the tendency to 'upgrade themselves' (also main OSS ones), thah many people use web-mailed mail (included me, part-time) and web-based storage (not me), the step from this to a full-blown network-based OS is not too big. And it can be done smartly, so that the PC does not stop working when not connected.
If they will be able to sell ChromeOS to the netbook producers, people might not care about what OS is installed as long as it delivers the application they need. For the same reason, if they tend to sell it to end-user, I think it will be a big fiasco.

Ciao
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FB

Web apps have moved on

Posted Jul 14, 2009 8:55 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

The state of the art in web apps is improving fast, what with:

- much more powerful web apps, fuelled by faster JavaScript engines (V8, Webkit's engine, Firefox's TraceMonkey) and soon by HTML 5

- offline storage on the local PC made transparent - Google Gears et al - today

- launch 'apps' from the desktop that look like real apps - today

- Google Native Client - safely compile apps into native code applets using a modified GCC for security. The idea is scarily like ActiveX but done with much more attention to sandboxing and security.

- O3D - access to 3D APIs from native client applets

Once you can run a 3D game with native code within the browser, and read all your email offline on a flight (already possible with Gmail and Gears), and the user doesn't really know that they are using a web app, why wouldn't a Chrome OS based system be popular?