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cananian

Chrome OS, litl, and OLPC

Nov 19, 2009 14:27

Well, Google just announced Chrome OS, to be available next Christmas. Some parts of it are very similar to what you can already put under the tree this Christmas from litl (actually, you can buy one right now) - and other parts are familiar from my time at OLPC. For example, the legacy-free BIOS and signed bootloader are what OLPC shipped two ( Read more... )

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It is the scale that is revolutionary ext_215666 November 22 2009, 19:20:54 UTC

It is the scale of what Google is trying to do that is quite revolutionary. Getting compatible hardware, apps, instant-boot, none of this is new but putting it all together is. I am excited that google isn't trying to cram 'too many miracles' into this product, to borrow from Kim Quirk.

I am particularly excited that Google is looking to standardize the API's for access to hardware and other features. Sergey Brin said during the chromeOS introduction that Google will be working w/ W3C to standardize the notifications api together w/ the W3C.