I'm surprised nobody uses ChromeOS for this

Posted Jun 14, 2010 2:44 UTC (Mon) by lakeland (guest, #1157)
Parent article: HP to buy slim Linux OS from Phoenix

I'd have thought it would cut down on the company's development while delivering a better product. I'm sure Phoenix's offering is fine, but I'd have thought with the amount of effort Google is putting in you will both get a better product and some reasonable likelihood that the product will continue to improve much faster than Phoenix's.

I'm surprised nobody uses ChromeOS for this

Posted Jun 14, 2010 4:55 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (2 responses)

Maybe they don't like using vaporware?

As for "continue to improve": Phoenix / HP are not the only ones working on improving Linux.

I'm surprised nobody uses ChromeOS for this

Posted Jun 14, 2010 5:07 UTC (Mon) by lakeland (guest, #1157) [Link] (1 responses)

Vapourware? http://getchrome.eu/download.php

I didn't claim Phoenix/HP were the only one working on improving Linux - I was implicitly assuming that since both Phoenix and Google are using a Linux base then the contributions by others would be equal for both, and the differentiating factor is the work done specifically by Phoenix/HP or Google. Effectively I was treating Linux as 'upstream'.

I don't see what's wrong with that assumption.

I'm surprised nobody uses ChromeOS for this

Posted Jun 16, 2010 15:29 UTC (Wed) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111) [Link]

There are a few things wrong with that link:

It's not really ChromeOS, but a suse and gnome-based distribution
There is no link to the various projects' source code
The deliberate choice of name and graphics theme is creating some confusion.

Accept only the genuine article!