Kevin C. Tofel certainly knows his way around ultra-portable devices like MIDs, UMPCs, and netbooks. And during a product briefing with NVIDIA, the managing editor behind
jkOnTheRun received confirmation from NVIDIA that it's working to deliver Google's Chome OS on the
Tegra smartbook platform,
eventually. Anyone surprised? Tegra is ARM-based and Google has been
perfectly clear that its Chrome OS is targeting ARM and x86 systems ranging in size from netbooks to full-size desktops. But hey, it's Tegra and Google's unproven OS together at last...
what could
go wrong? Until that day it'll be Windows CE or Android (and maybe a Linux distro or two) when the first
Tegra-based Smartbooks begin shipping from carriers, well,
right about now.
posted Sep 25th 2009 7:04AM
James Kendrick is the man behind jkOnTheRun creating the site in '04. Kevin joined James as a writer in 2006 and is now managing editor.
http://jkontherun.com/about-jkontherun/
You sir, are correct! And thanks to Engadget to making the correction in the post, too.
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Meh... Don't really care for Google OS yet since it has yet to show me something working.
Now we're getting there.
Tegra with ChormeOS could mean better support for Linux which would be a good thing.
My main concern with ChromeOS is they are saying they won't use X11 but a different display manager which means all the current apps for Linux will have to be re-developed rather than just recompiled.
Maybe this is a Google's way of getting a head start with the web based experience as I expect it would be a lot of effort for all the app developers to port to ChromeOS, so in the short term Google owns your experience.
As long as it's open source and a big step forwards (hardware accelerated, multithreaded, etc), who needs X Window?
If it performs better, Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Enlightment, etc will obviously support the new window system and it will find it's way back in to other distro's.
Yes perhaps they want fonts to look nice and anti-aliased, something X11 has real difficulty with.
If only MS made 7 work on ARM! ....... one can dream. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
If Intel keep running their engineering samples on OSX maybe it will happen.
I don't think cloud computing is the way of the future like the Google OS proposes. Actually I think it sux having to use some online storage instead of a hard drive and using programs on the internet instead of having them on your hard drive and able to work properly. Not to mention that it will be very slow too.
Have you ever used Gmail, Facebook, Twitter? These are all part of the cloud.
I don't think he's talking about services like Gmail and Facebook.
Have you ever tried using a cloud based photo editing application as opposed to GIMP or Photoshop? They're pretty ass. Hell, I'll take a dedicated office suite over the craptacular Google Docs too, at least until every mobile device has at least a solid 100Mbps internet connection that matches storing over a local LAN.
And another reason to be wary of Google's behaviour when it comes to making 'open' OS stuff...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/google-hits-android-rom-modder-with-a-cease-and-desist-letter/
Total waste of effort & time unless applications made for Google Chrome OS x86 can work on Arm version & vice versa.
If it dosnt then whats the point its no different from WinCE or Linux, Nvidia are just scoring easy PR points on gullible sites wanting to report on any of the latest buzzwords.
Tegra is prev gen ARM- also I don't want to see anymore WindowsCE on Tegra (ala ZuneHD). Mine as well have Windows 3.1 on Tegra, cuz neither supports SMP
I'm surprised that this hasn't made the news, but you can download chrome OS...... RIGHT NOW!!!
http://sites.google.com/site/chromeoslinux/
... it's pretty much a very light, web focused linux distribution (at this point anyway).
}:^)~
"Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser" is what Google say.
Well when I use Chrome sometimes it eats up 1.5GB of precious RAM on its own, so their OS might be very heavy on a pc's resources
Hi all,
I maybe missing something, but...
Why Chrome OS is needed, if Android is available already for ARM platforms?
Why not having just Chrome for Android version? Or even a new Android flavor.
I sense a lot of duplicity in the future...
Capt'n Corrupt: I think this has come up in every article about Chrome OS, and I guess you haven't noticed, but what you're downloading even says "Services provided by SUSE Studio", and it's hosted on sites.google.com instead of somewhere Google actually hosts their own projects. The most likely reason it hasn't made the news is because it's not real :)