Messing around with Chromium OS is on my todo list, I think I'd give in to the temptation to get a shell or at least an SSL/AJAX terminal on my colo or something.
I think they're going to get a lot more device to web-app integration going before they ship anything for real. So you can plug your camera in and upload directly from the picassa web site and shit like that.
6 second boot would make it a perfect "2nd OS" for your netbook. Scratch that, it would displace it as the 1st OS, and I'd fall back to the other if required for specific uses. But the web covers most of my needs. The best bit is that you wouldn't need to repeatedly dual boot as with linux and windows - the full function OS would be a superset of functionality.
Direct upload to picasaweb - I hope not ... shit photos? F*ck off, we're full. If it runs picasa locally however, then bonza.
I'm an in theory convert, but I'm stilled addicted to firefox plugins such as adblock. If that doesn't change, this could eventually be the convenience wedge to pry me back into an advertising-filled web.
Chrome already runs adblock. The extension model on Chrome is awesome. I had a great long conversation with Aaron Boodman (mr Greasemonkey and now mr Chrome Extensions) about how he designed Chrome extensions to work and it's really smart. They're on pretty much the same security model as web pages, unlike FF extensions which are a complete fucking disaster.
Hmm, checked out the Adblock module and it looks pretty good.
This Chrome OS thing inspired me to reinstall my eeePC. Much pain ensues, but people are getting some pretty sweet boot times on linux too. Funny how it all comes full circle back to compiling in your modules, don't initrd, pre-allocation of /dev ... all the things we used to do 10 years ago :-) LPC famously demoed a 5s boot moblin eeePC a year ago but nobody is even coming close to doing that in a distro a year later ... its all local hacks.
What gets me is how a pre-alpha piece of software (Chrome on Mac OSX) is far more stable and fast than both safari and firefox. Goes to show just how shit the other browsers are.
I'm running 10.4 so no Chrome for me on the laptop at home, but I use it pretty much exclusively at work. Even the early alphas for Linux sucked less than Firefox.
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Direct upload to picasaweb - I hope not ... shit photos? F*ck off, we're full. If it runs picasa locally however, then bonza.
I'm an in theory convert, but I'm stilled addicted to firefox plugins such as adblock. If that doesn't change, this could eventually be the convenience wedge to pry me back into an advertising-filled web.
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Chrome already runs adblock. The extension model on Chrome is awesome. I had a great long conversation with Aaron Boodman (mr Greasemonkey and now mr Chrome Extensions) about how he designed Chrome extensions to work and it's really smart. They're on pretty much the same security model as web pages, unlike FF extensions which are a complete fucking disaster.
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This Chrome OS thing inspired me to reinstall my eeePC. Much pain ensues, but people are getting some pretty sweet boot times on linux too. Funny how it all comes full circle back to compiling in your modules, don't initrd, pre-allocation of /dev ... all the things we used to do 10 years ago :-) LPC famously demoed a 5s boot moblin eeePC a year ago but nobody is even coming close to doing that in a distro a year later ... its all local hacks.
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