I think the google OS will possibly be a VERY cool thing, in that it'll have new "back end underpinnings" based on the work Google has been doing in-house for years. It could be as revolutionary as another "core distro" with it's own way of doing things, maybe even a whole new package management system.
But it will be set up initially as "web centric" and hence stripped down a lot. If they do everything right, us geeks will be able to add back in the local-processing-type-apps we want. Worst case, doing so would mean a forked project, the way Ubuntu forked off of Debian. Thing is, if you're doing a whole new distro from scratch and you've got Google's resources behind it, you could get really wild. Put in "the best of everything": the rebootless kernel updates of ksplice, Ext4 or something even cooler, etc. And if it's stripped down for "web only", so what? Extend from there. Extending UP from a small base is safer and simpler than chopping downwards from a bloated mess! Jim --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
