{"id":44921,"date":"2009-11-19T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:betanews.com,2007:article-1258650069"},"modified":"2009-11-19T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T17:02:59","slug":"live-report-will-google-chrome-os-change-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44921","title":{"rendered":"Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/author\/tim\">Tim Conneally<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\">Betanews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google announced its open source Chrome OS last July and it has been a little more than a mystery to the wondering public since that time. Now, an official first look is mere hours away.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:00 am PST (1:00 pm EST), Google will present a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20091119005068&amp;newsLang=en\" >live webcast<\/a> of Chrome OS, the search giant&#8217;s attempt to &#8220;rethink what operating systems should be.&#8221; Speakers this afternoon will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS. <\/p>\n<p>Besides finally getting to see just how Chrome will be laid out, we will get an overview of the underlying technology and find out about the operating system&#8217;s 2010 launch schedule.<\/p>\n<p>What we know about Chrome OS already:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It will be free and open source<\/li>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><strong>It is built on the Linux Kernel but has a totally new windowing system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It will support both x86 and ARM architecture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It will run Web apps as if they&#8217;re native desktop apps.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is not a handset OS like Android, but there will be &#8220;overlap&#8221; in functionality<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba have all voiced support for Chrome OS.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chrome OS Director Matthew Papakipos is director of the HTML 5 Open Web Platform efforts at Google.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The underlying security architecture of &#8220;standard&#8221; operating systems is being completely redesigned.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Until today, these facts have only raised more questions. Far too many to even list here. Hopefully, once the Webcast gets rolling, we&#8217;ll be able to finally put the most basic of these questions to rest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"First look at Chrome OS\" alt=\"First look at Chrome OS\" height=\"227\" width=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/images.betanews.com\/media\/4101.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"linebreak\">\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Banner: Live Commentary\" alt=\"Banner: Live Commentary\" height=\"25\" width=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/images.betanews.com\/media\/2417.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--LB--><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:23am PT:<\/strong> The Q&#038;A session has ended, and now it&#8217;s time to go download the source code!<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:20am PT:<\/strong> It currently doesn&#8217;t support printing, but locally pluggable devices are recognized, and more are being added. (Nobody in the Q&#038;A session is asking about local network presence\/file sharing, etc&#8230;that&#8217;s disappointing.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:18am PT:<\/strong> &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to make the core boot operating system boot wicked fast&#8230;we&#8217;re really focused on making a lean and mean netbook that runs really fast.&#8221; &#8211;Matthew Papakipos<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:16am PT:<\/strong> Sergey Brin has joined the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:13am PT:<\/strong> &#8220;If the cloud goes down, you&#8217;re going to be affected no matter what machine you&#8217;re on; Chrome OS or not.&#8221; -Sundar Pichai<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:13am PT:<\/strong> Though most of what is going on in Chrome OS can be accessed simply through any other browser&#8230;Verified Boot\/malware prevention\/fast boot\/file system security are all benefits to the OS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:10am PT:<\/strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to build and ship an OS in a year, but that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re trying to do.&#8221; -Sundar Pichai<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:09am PT:<\/strong> Chrome Native Client will run on ARM chips eventually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:07am PT:<\/strong> To reiterate, the current plan is to ONLY SUPPORT WEB APPS in Chrome OS, period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:06am PT:<\/strong> Will Android Apps run on Chrome OS? Since they&#8217;re not Web apps&#8230;no.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:05am PT:<\/strong> Media can be cached locally for offline access, and 802.11n is the focus wireless standard for connectivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:03am PT:<\/strong> &#8220;We are working very, very, very hard to have a simple code stack.&#8221; -Sundar Pichai<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:02am PT:<\/strong> Chrome OS-based devices will be in the market by the middle of 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00am PT:<\/strong> Working to support plugins. Asked if they&#8217;re working with Microsoft to develop a Chrome\/OS Silverlight plugin, the answer was &#8220;no comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:58am PT:<\/strong> Everything that works in Chrome the browser, including Codecs, will also work in Chrome OS&#8230;Flash, Codec hardware acceleration, and Chrome native client.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:57am PT:<\/strong> The archetypal Chrome OS device is going to be a companion device.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:56am PT:<\/strong> Q: Will there be an application store?<br \/>\nA: There are hundreds of millions of web apps, so we&#8217;re working to solve the problem.<br \/>\nQ: What about driver certification?<br \/>\nA: Open source drivers whenever possible, but working closely with OEMs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:54am PT:<\/strong> With Web standards, many of those are still evolving, and the Device APIs are all still evolving too. Google is &#8220;working closely&#8221; with the big standards groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:52am PT:<\/strong> Demo model running this build of Chrome OS is an &#8220;off the shelf Eee PC&#8221; (Asus)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:51am PT:<\/strong> Q: What&#8217;s a Chrome OS netbook going to cost?<br \/>\nA: It will be up to the OEMs, and it&#8217;s too early to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:49am PT:<\/strong> Google Chrome will ultimately be a &#8220;stateless computer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:47am PT:<\/strong> watching this video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0QRO3gKj3qw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0QRO3gKj3qw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:43am PT:<\/strong> How Chrome OS is going to go to market: Chrome OS image is being built against hardware profiles rather than generically. No support for HDDs, only Solid state drives. Wireless card support will be announced on a case by case basis. You won&#8217;t be able to just install Chrome. It&#8217;s pre-install only. (Kinda like OS X?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:40am PT:<\/strong> System is continuously auto-updated. Most of the system is in a writable partition, and that&#8217;s scary. System settings are stored separately, and user data is always encrypted. One benefit is safety of data; you can be assured that if some bad guy gets your machine with a screwdriver, he&#8217;ll have a hard time reading those bits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:38am PT:<\/strong> In the security model of the conventional application, apps run as you. (Impersonation). This is a big deal because it enables hackers to impersonate you. This makes it hard for users to make decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome OS applications are all Web apps, so you have a different security model. Apps are treated at the system level as fundamentally hostile by default. Web apps can&#8217;t change files on the hard disk, can&#8217;t change the power setting. (Evidently something does, but that&#8217;s not being discussed.)<\/p>\n<p>All apps run in secure namespaces. &#8220;Every tab that you run in Chrome OS is run completely separate from other tabs in the OS &#8212; we&#8217;ve protected tabs from other tabs, apps from each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:35am PT:<\/strong> Talking now about the security model, and how the operating system will update itself continually. Components of the operating system must pass a cryptographic signature check before running. Malware protection enables the system to declare certain components of the operating system &#8220;wrong,&#8221; which apparently may be due to either malware or system updates. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking what used to be a painful imaging process, and we&#8217;ve made it transparent, saving your system settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:24am PT:<\/strong> Instead of browser tabs, they have become &#8220;application tabs,&#8221; and the far left tab is a menu of Web apps, there are also dedicated tabs for gmail, Google Docs, etc. &#8220;Panels&#8221; pop up from the bottom which can lay Web apps on top of one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:21am PT:<\/strong> The UI is meant to feel like a browser, so it looks like the Chrome Browser. (as TechCrunch found out several weeks ago.) Bear in mind, this is a whole year ahead of release, so code is still being checked in right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:19am PT:<\/strong> Chrome OS promises a 7 second cold boot. (though I counted 12 seconds in the demo&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:18am PT:<\/strong> Chrome OS is a &#8220;better model for personal computing,&#8221; focused on: speed (&#8220;we want it to be blazingly fast, like a TV&#8221;) simplicity (every application is a web application, nothing to maintain, all data is cloud data&#8230;sort of like a dumb terminal without the &#8220;dumbness&#8221;) and security (&#8220;we run completely within the browser security model&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:14am PT:<\/strong> Trends that Google is excited about: Growth of Netbooks, Growth of cloud usage, Convergence of phone and computer functionality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\">Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2009<\/a><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:7572d6a727fc39ab3eeeb57a80bb9627:2lrMTfPLZkGG3Bpym0DIqpgAOq%2FGaLMfHx2JABEL%2FcS5RdpXmP3UhP8VXsvyvZz9M3Qn5VXHkxYnkA%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/digg_64x16.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:f113c44ea69ed3cdd3dfbf9ec2860407:QXjvpYZnP7qKiX9UYbzbof%2F0aoDZMyUaoxqJuc0RnDLoorOD96FWO%2FLctYbcGdQO2Aby8tOWg2jT'><img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/google.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:5009ff845e289cd8d7a247cc0402d6f1:WERegvnZgQysFCX3F3qgwYKqXZaPIJZSq0BYx1ywn6K1vItDfkQPoiEc7THYWZfLxni3i5IJ9Z9lQA%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Slashdot' alt='Add to Slashdot' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/slashdot.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:c0097c7f4c7fd92b1b37f05fb7a88514:5C7rbdWhn%2Fs4WTG5xFIU78NYhNBhxR5wuvsv3xX7hgkAy0Nsz27A6I8dLlRmyPYThVWVHLfnEIAIgA%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Twitter' alt='Add to Twitter' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/twitter.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:013b505be58296ccc2e05b027123a7e0:iROYofw04kshphwBWLsEMCITl8TO7KkGJiqRutvGFulkSBlEAK%2BvLrmoRjsctqvYgQQG%2FRbgpfPi'><img border='0' title='Add to del.icio.us' alt='Add to del.icio.us' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/delicious.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:927c34bd73187d76e92f72d084538829:SLXxssPGk273aDVbq9%2B00p5uN4DIiD%2Fl%2F%2Bmbp65KlnMQZ2WvLLi1PbKGZj9X1mEqWzr389VvjJ3Fag%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/facebook.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:e84e2e7325131f374ecd3ca9cfc98870:%2BgddDGGHQtPCOh%2B8aVGBQ%2FyJOMhomkixJwzT9e68PCi4gMPsSb%2FYypWURY6PUu3pp97RENcls4JAwQ%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Technorati' alt='Add to Technorati' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/technorati.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=2cdfc0d498f78cedd0a14c0e20f93a79&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=2cdfc0d498f78cedd0a14c0e20f93a79&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=ZBC3vT7ihGc:MnEWl9Wv_hw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=ZBC3vT7ihGc:MnEWl9Wv_hw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?i=ZBC3vT7ihGc:MnEWl9Wv_hw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=ZBC3vT7ihGc:MnEWl9Wv_hw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/ZBC3vT7ihGc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Conneally, Betanews Google announced its open source Chrome OS last July and it has been a little more than a mystery to the wondering public since that time. Now, an official first look is mere hours away. At 10:00 am PST (1:00 pm EST), Google will present a live webcast of Chrome OS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}