Re: [DLC]Google Chrome OS Released!!! OMG! WTF! BBQ!
Sam Faci <[email protected]>
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I don't think the death of desktop is happening. The idea though of having everything easily accessible from anywhere is great. Ideally though I would like it encrypted and not publicly readable/accessibly by anyone but me. (and yes, I know that won't be google doing this.. but still .. steps in the right direction) -- Samir On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hm. "We've gotten rid of the OS. To install, first download Ubuntu." > > Insert your own joke here. > > There's one fatal flaw in this plan, though. I DON'T put my music online. > I DON'T use an online mail client. I DON'T use an online IDE. I DON'T use > an online IM client. I DON'T use an online SSH client. I DON'T use an > online twitter site. For all of those, a desktop client is actually > superior for my needs. > > So, since I have not already turned over my entire existence to The > Cloud(tm) (aka Google's data mining robot overlords), Chrome is useless to > me. > > Maybe it would make an interesting netbook or something, but really, we've > been hearing of the death of the desktop for what, 15 years? I didn't buy > it then, and I don't buy it now. > > --Larry Garfield > > Sean Neilan wrote: >> >> I think you have to build it from source here: >> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os >> >> You have to use at least version 8.04 of ubuntu. I'm going to try building >> it in on my arch linux machine and see how it goes. >> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM, gtz84-/[email protected] <mailto:gtz84-/[email protected]> >> <gtz84-/[email protected] <mailto:gtz84-/[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> How can we get a handle of copies of Google Chrome? >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Sean Neilan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> *To:* DePaul Linux Community - Discuss <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> *Sent:* Thu, November 19, 2009 1:21:57 PM >> *Subject:* [DLC]Google Chrome OS Released!!! OMG! WTF! BBQ! >> >> Yay >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ >> >> Dunno about ya'll, but, I'm installing this thing right away. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DLC mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc >> Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!! >> http://linux.depaul.edu/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DLC mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc >> Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!! >> http://linux.depaul.edu/ >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DLC mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc >> Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!! >> http://linux.depaul.edu/ > > _______________________________________________ > DLC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc > Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!! > http://linux.depaul.edu/ > -- -- Samir Faci *insert title* `fortune` _______________________________________________ DLC mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!! http://linux.depaul.edu/