Any of you hear about this? Google is planning on releasing their own PC, with their own Google branded OS.
Would you buy it?
Heard about it.
I’d have to see what it’s all about before I support or destroy it. See what it’s written with/based on, and how it works with stuff.
It’ll be interesting to see, that’s for sure.
Goggle OS, eh? Sounds kinda sexy. I bet that I wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers. 
GoogleOS and meatballs…
-Imp
If you ask me, that move sounds kind of risky on google’s part. But, I’ll put my faith in them, trusting that they have intellegent market-analysts who think otherwise. 
However, it does make one consider…Microsoft Windows will probably [eventually] be trumped as the King of Operating-systems. The question is: Who will be the next giat in OS’s? 
Toast, yes. Crackers, no.
with a coating of MIT’s 100 dollar laptop ontop?
If the hardware was solid and reasonably priced, and the OS was unix based and without crippling software compatibility issues, I’d consider it.
well it would no doubt be linux based, the one thing that would concern those of us able to afford “real” hardware (and not the MIT 100 dollar laptop) is that there is no doubt that google will use some form of “ad sense” to make money on these things.
as for the other issues, have to wait and see.
At the first whiff of integrated adware I would quickly become adversarial to the whole idea.
That much I am sure of.
yeah, I’d stick to what I’m using that’s for sure.
But for those in need of a cheap computer it could be a good move on google’s part.
I think there’s little chance that’ll they’ll actually proceed in this direction. but it’d be nice to see someone take on the big Kahona of the industry.
Gates on Google’s OS:
“I hear they’re coming out with a robot that will cook hamburgers, too. Let’s spread that rumor — there’s nothing they can’t do,” Gates said in jest.
On a more serious note, Gates added: “Whatever they announce, they announce. They’re in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype… They will obviously branch out beyond internet search, but I think the expectations won’t live up to reality.”
If anyone knows about ‘expectations not living up to reality’, it’s Mr Gates.
The best thing about a Google OS is it can be engineered from the ground up and into a future that’s a lot clearer than it was, even five years ago.
Apart from that, a Linux box will hit the same hacker problems as soon as it becomes dominant and then will slowly grind to a crawl as it tries to be everything for everyone.
I’m sure Nietzsche’s said something about this when writing about computer operating systems in his doctrine of eternal recurrence?
Hacker problems, for one on a linux box, are proportionate to your skills with security and secondarilly the size of your mouth on IRC.
That aint gonna change any time soon.
Linux already is everything for everyone. (aside from noobs)
That’s sort of the point. It can be or do anything.
I coulda sworn they said they specifically weren’t doing this. Maybe they said they weren’t at that time. Anyway, I think a Google PC might end up being popular. They could have their little Google IM and their desktop search (the question is, who the fuck doesn’t just save things in the right place in the first place… oh wait, most people), and their Picasa, and probably a service for uploading home videos to Google video. It would be a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t really need, but for someone else, it might seem nice. Actually, if it was Linux based, I think it might be a cool opportunity to become more familiar with the Linux bash, because it might be the first time my family owned a computer that didn’t have Windows as well (some of my family members freak out if it’s in Linux because… gasp… they can’t see their icons!).
Google actually has honest to god software engineers. Maybe they’ll try to make money off of things like a good product instead of ads. Although most google services are pretty slick looking.
I have a feeling if they do it, they will engineer the interface to be as simple as possible. Tune it for joe average, who won’t mind the adware simply because he hasn’t ever heard of adware.
Teach them how to switch vterms to the x shell.
I recomend windowmaker over top of kde, you can tweak it to look 100% better than any eckspee desktop.
Cool… I’ve never tried Windowmaker. I’ll take a look at it. And teaching them things is out of the question lol. My dad and I are the only ones who know anything about Linux. He knows his way around the shell alot better than I do because he’s been screwing around with it for seven years or so, but nobody likes to listen to him teach because he’s “too critical.” I don’t mind it, but most people don’t like it when I teach them stuff either. At least not those in my family. Of course that would be my little sister. She probably would freak out just because she couldn’t use AIM. She had a bunch of friends over today and I took an image of the C drive just so they couldn’t fuck it up. I’ve tried to show her to use Trillian or Gaim, but she doesn’t like them. I personally think that most online chat programs are just away to get popups fucking you up at critical moments in games, or typing things in all sorts of wrong chats. 
Just as an example, on our Windows computers, we have a shitty old computer we just use as a fileserver. They think that if they can’t see their H: drive it’s not there. They refuse to learn how to map a fucking drive. It’s like… 5 little pieces of information. We even gave our computers easy to recognize names in case they can’t memorize the IP addresses. 