Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

Posted by mqt on Thursday November 19, 2009 @01:53PM
from the googleblog.blogspot.com dept.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by koenbok on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:11PM (#951122)

Now if only somebody could build a nice image that I could run in VMWare...

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by izak30 on Friday November 20, 2009 @01:23AM (#952011)

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5170843/chromeos-image-999.9...

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by brown9-2 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @03:01PM (#950967)

Also relevant: "Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users?" http://blog.chromium.org/2009/11/hello-open-source-developer...

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by gjm11 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:49PM (#950932)

Warning: The "What is Google Chrome OS?" video embedded there is astonishingly patronizing. I have difficulty believing that there is a single person in the world who both (1) will be interested in the a-year-before-it's-ready open-source release and (2) will not be infuriated by it.

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by nuclear_eclipse on Thursday November 19, 2009 @03:40PM (#951042)

I for one thought it was cheeky and funny, and think it would be a nice video to show my non-programmer friends. Perhaps you shouldn't take everything you see on the internet personally?

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by zweiterlinde on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:51PM (#951214)

At your Chromium OS launch party, perhaps?

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by rscott on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:51PM (#950940)

Amen, it ends with the word anyways. Terrible.

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by swolchok on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:20PM (#951135)

I can't believe they're using mandatory access control. It's the most eye-glazing security mechanism ever IMHO.

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Re:Releasing the Chromium OS open source project by utexaspunk on Thursday November 19, 2009 @07:55PM (#951584)

Yeah... What's the implication of that? If someone wants to bother my PC, they either have to log in themselves or get full access to all my private stuff? On one hand, I can have my stuff everywhere, but on the other hand, if all we had were OS's like this, wouldn't we have a world where nobody can do anything online anonymously? Seems like that could be bad... maybe I just misunderstand...

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