Google Chrome OS

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM, James McDonald<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I fail to understand the hype.  Its Linux with a Google window manager.
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>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:07 AM, James McDonald<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
>> wrote:
>> > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>> >
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> Having attempted installing gOS 3.x I was whelmed of the under variety. The
> plus side the new Chrome OS is that it's a big name going up against M$
> netbook market share.
>
> I've found if I try to install a narrow boutique OS I end up installing all
> my favourite tools and finding I might as well have gone for a full featured
> distro.
>
> Speaking of which I'm running Fedora 11 ATM. Still love Fed/RH
> system-config-* admin utilities over Debian a2mod, update-rc.d, etc etc.
> Absolutely love the palimpset disk S.M.A.R.T utility (I think it's spelt
> like that). And Fedora seems to have gotten the network manager PPTP client
> right.

I did an upgrade earlier today from F10 to F11, and its been mostly a
disaster.  Both thunderbird & firefox crash after startup (even in
safe mode, even for new users).  Most of my XFCE per-user settings got
overwritten.  There are other gems too.  I think i've finally learned
that odd numbered releases are to be avoided.



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