Activity for Yesterday

Review - Joomla!
1.6.0 Alpha (Jun 23, 2009)

Great product, though it should NOT be on this site as it is not software per-se, and it has its very own distribution site at www.joomla.org
Comment - Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?
1.6.0 Alpha (Nov 21, 2009 - 5:41 AM)

They are not trying to take over the desktop.. they are trying to revenue share /monetize low profit margin cheap hardware..

The interwebs (and even pre-interwebs) is paved with the "thin client/hosted app" devices that where gonna be everywhere! (Audrey anyone?)

What google is selling is 300$ netbook/nettop (or even cheaper) that they will be spamming full of their ads.. (even if its google its still spamming ads) and collecting and selling all that lovely data on what you do, what you store in google docs, what you watch on youtube, etc..

The way they win over oems (at least until this exercise flops like all the rest before it for the same reasons) is by sharing the ad revenue with acer, and asus, and all the rest of the "me too cheap hardware sellers"

THe problem is consumers are not buying.. they wont be buying.. they didnt buy it in the past they wont buy it in the future
Comment - Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?
1.6.0 Alpha (Nov 21, 2009 - 5:36 AM)

Firefox cannot make a version to run on it.. since "it" is a browser not an Operating System..

You would need to install X, and a real window manager and then add firefox to it.. but at that point its no longer gonna be ChromeOS is it?
Comment - Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?
1.6.0 Alpha (Nov 20, 2009 - 11:02 PM)

This is even less than that..

This is an "OS" that is more like "Google Branded Splashtop/Expressgate" rather than any sort of actual OS

Its not gonna run on real hardware, its designed around instant boot on low end nettop/laptop/netbook/misc arm based hardware..

Anyone remember the SUN "experiments" into thin clients? this is the same deal, the only difference is they will be trying to sell these low power email/etc devices to mom and pop and granny rather than to Corporate IT, and since they dont require a mothership on location, they could do reasonably well..

STill this is not an OS release any more than Think's GoodOS is an OS.. I mean if we wanna get right down to it. Shell=chrome.exe on windows with hardware capable of proper standby/hibernation would be exactly the same as what we have seen here.. lots of marketing spam, not alot of substance.. What I do not understand is why it took them so long to poop this one out of the labs, the changes to chrome are insignifcant, and the creation of a slimmed down bootable linux these days are trivial.
Comment - iTunes Preview doesn't go far enough to create Web-based option for store
1.6.0 Alpha (Nov 14, 2009 - 5:24 AM)

I don't know where you came up with this.. but it is pretty much .. yah legally actionable in this country to make unfounded statements like this publically... given apple's hair trigger with the lawyers... you may wanna refrain from these sorts of posts.

But yah, go on believing that spreading nonsense such as this will help whatever crusade you are on..
Comment - Myka announces its latest Linux-based 'net top box'
1.6.0 Alpha (Nov 8, 2009 - 11:12 AM)

this is not about builders.. this is more about a retail product that "just works"

Its more designed to compete with say an AppleTV and the Popcorn hour devices or a more advanced version of one of the various single purpose boxes (from roku, or netflix etc)

Sure a tech savvy computer builder with linux experience can buy a SFF PC, or a mac mini or whatever and throw linux, and boxee or even windows and boxee/xbmc/etc on it.. but again this is more from that guy from the office that saw your fancy video stuff and wanted one for himself.. but doesnt want to do it himself (and more importantly that YOu dont want to support