Comments on: Google Chrome Operating System – Open Source

By: Clint G.

Clint G. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:39:36 +0000

Additionally, I'm rocking Android right now on a cell phone and a netbook. It's made leaps and bounds in an arena that the folks at Google (and this developer) have never touched. It did so with some pretty original concepts too.

Examples:

Process (thread) locking: Threads use the user authentication subsystem of the Linux kernel to protect themselves, exclusively. Android isn't really meant to be used as a multi-user operating system, and the community behind Android (Google initially and primarily) saw this and capitalized on it as a way to make the platform more secure than most.

Multiple VMs:

Multiple instances of the Dalvik Virtual Machine (at least 2) run at any given moment, helping to prioritize between demonized and foregrounded processes. When I heard the majority of the platform was going to be developed in Java I assumed it was going to be slower than most. This methodology provides the user with a snappier experience than most mobile handsets (apart from the OpenMoko software stack, whose software is largely written in C/C++ with a proper, non-interpreted Qt frontend).

OpenMoko brings me to an important point. I'm excited to see Google and the rest of us, or those of us that can get off the blog and into the compiler, developing a lightweight GNU/Linux based platform. Google has done amazing things in the realms of communication and collaborative development. Code ain't no LaunchPad, but I think everyone should keep a sharp eye on the Chrome OS, because Google and the community may suprise us with some groundbreaking innovations.

By: Clint G.

Clint G. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:26:43 +0000

There's an aweful lot of bad noise about Google's master plan to spy on everyone and supply the government with an endless stream of cookies.

I reckon the concept of Free and Open Source Software is lost on some folks

When you have access to the source code, you can look at it! So grab a copy of your favorite publisher's finest tutorial on the C and C++ programming languages and do something about it.

Read the code, contribute to the source-tree, and when everybody starts spying on everybody else, blame each other.

You're freedom and privacy are yours to protect, so protect it by making this Chrome OS the OS you want it to be.

By: Tim Formica [Room335]

Tim Formica [Room335] — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:32:24 +0000

alxarch

As to why this is Blender news see my comment above on July 9th

By: alxarch

alxarch — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:10:29 +0000

Why would someone post this on BlenderNation? It's not a news, everything and the kitchensync site, please keep this sort of posts to other blogs/sites.
Chrome OS from what i have read (in the proper sites for this sort of news ie slashdot) will be completely different from other distros. People are even talking of a directFB implementation of the chrome browser. If this is true it will be harder or so hard that it makes no sense to port most of the apps that currently live in the X user space of most distros. Chrome OS is not sommething that blendershould worry about or even care at the moment to port to (except if a webplugin is achieved). On it's own it's destined to fail on overtaking MS. Combined with the upcoming Google Wave (google it…) it will shake things for good and a vast majority of "casual" users will be fully satisfied by such a product. I see this sort of OS being more of a competition to Ubuntu than to Windows. Ubuntu right now is the best platform (cost + safety) for a user who just uses their pc for browsing/photos/torrents etc. One good thing that can come out of it for Linux is hardware support. Google wants all content to be online but this content can't magically dissapear from my camera/scanner/camcorder and appear on google's servers. So some hardware io will need to happen outside the browser and there we'll need to see how google can keep this OS lean and mean while having to run stuff like HAL/gvfs etc.
I am feeling like feeding a troll answering to this post in blendernation.

By: vidrazor2

vidrazor2 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:22:37 +0000

I'm at a loss why Google would launch a second Linux OS when it already has Android. Android is JUST beginning to gain some momentum and Google goes off and does this. This has the potential to screw up acceptance of Android. Frankly I think Google tends to have too many pet projects which it never follows through with.

By: johnj

johnj — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:05:56 +0000

may be i'm wrong, but i think that this fact is related to blender; for example is possible that a team collaborate to work on blender because they need it on their os; in fact one of the prblems if you get a new os (as Haiku) is to get the applications; for 3d there is blender; if they go opensource, they can use ather people work, but they can make other people use their things; and blender can be the first web 2.0 3d tool; anyway, this is the power of the opensource

By: nesneci

nesneci — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:10:19 +0000

Some people said that this is good news. What is so good about a possibly ad driven(if not now, in 5 years) OS?

By: Hugo Oliveira

Hugo Oliveira — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:57:54 +0000

Google owns the Internet. And is not Google, it's Sir Google.

But Google OS will not get to the real deal, company users. This kind of users prefers a SO for housewife, like XP or even worse, Vista.

By: LOGAN

LOGAN — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:09:18 +0000

That's good news although i already know it's coming. But to be honest it's not even remotely related to Blender, not even indirect at this time. What's next? Windows 7 released? Hehe.

There's some news lying on the shelf bumped ahead due to the Google stuff… Better topic; I added a few 3D models for Google Earth I made with Blender. 2 of the models are not in Google 3D layer :)

By: Nemesis#13

Nemesis#13 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:37:01 +0000

WHAT DA HELL HAS THIS TO DO WITH BLENDER?
seriously, this news is now all across the web and when i look up blendernation i don't expect "hey, see what's new in the software world", but "hey, see this cool blender related stuff".

put it on blenderartists' offtopic/general discussion forums…