Hi, You are right in some aspects. The Chrome OS is slated to use the Linux kernel. So Linux will get better hardware support. But there is nothing that suggests that it won't be able to dual boot.
Anyway, this means there will be another bigger problem. It is hard to get hardware manufacturers to release open/free drivers. They always prefer binary only drivers, though that decision brings little incentive. Experience tells that h/w manufacturers never learn until free developers take apart their drivers, reverse engineer it and own it. And this means that there will be more proprietary blob crap attached to the Linux kernel -ready to take down the entire system every time someone sneezes. In my two years of using Gnu/Linux, I have seen atleast two instances of the system getting continuously crashed by the proprietary NVIDIA driver. It is very hard to report or analyze binary driver bugs. So expect a few more crashes and heartburns in the future. Regards, Gokul Das On Jul 9, 5:47 pm, Sebin Jacob <sebinaja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Santhosh, > yea, I have noted that point. But this OS will come as default installations > in netbooks by mid 2010, right? Normally, it wont be a dual boot system. We > may have some jobs that we cannot do through web like printing, scanning, > CD/DVD writing etc for which we need third party hardware. So, Chrome OS > should be able to connect with them. Without decent drivers, this may not be > possible. Then the search engine giant will pressurise OEM's to release free > drivers too. > > Sebin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
