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What I am thinking on the Chromium OS open source project
0 Comments | Posted by Dennis in 電腦和網際網路
Official Google Blog: Releasing the Chromium OS open source project.
Google is now Microsoft in the past, when Microsoft was selling DOS to IBM.
I just watch few Chrome OS documents and videos, it is a larger plan then I thought before. If it happen in the way which Google is planning, there is a Web 3.0 revolution that ever important then the PC revolution.
PC will be a historical term, like Apple II.
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I watch also IE9 video yesterday, they are all doing the same – faster browser, faster Javscript, use GPU to speed up…etc, etc. However, IE9 will never beat Chrome OS as there are no anything to slow it down, in theory.
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DOS – Disk operating system, Chrome OS – Web operating system.
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Microsoft is doing this – “keep your laptop/notebook connected to their cloud, and the company network —- in order to deadly control them”
You can find these sign in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
BitLocker, branchcache, group policy forced auto VPN connection…etc,etc
Fat OS, fat server, deep connection, tight control.
I bet half of system administrators will love these new feature.
(not the end user, as they cannot
Google is doing in another way – “nothing but a powered stateless workstation — you cannot do too much offline”
Lightweight browser, internet depending, open source.
Not all company will like it, (but they will), but many heavy Internet and mobile user will.
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How about NativeClient ?
Think about it, something like Photoshop, AutoCAD, graphical designer, movie editing….etc
They might not do very well in HTML5 then that in PC.
But if there is a plug-in system which allow you to run full featured application. They don’t read/write file from harddisk, but on WebDAV folders.
Chrome OS answer the question which people ask when Google release NativeClient — why not just download the exe and execute? Why reinvent ActiveX? Because you won’t and not allowed on Chrome OS.
I just there will even some “Extension based on NativeClient”
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Back to Chrome OS, it take away unsuccessfully, and optimize it.
7 SECONDS from power on and boot to browser.
Why “HIBERNATE” !?? Why “SLEEP”? to cut 7 seconds into 0.5
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Sandbox – application partition — everybody know about it, if they have a iPhone…..Apple guy call it Jail.
File system encrypted by default – very reasonable for mobile devices .
They try to LIMIT supported hardware!!!!
Reasonable to keep limited number of driver support and stupid bad hardware problems.
Actually, if it run in google way, half of hardware building company will die.
Because nobody will buy a faster GPU card, cooler, super CPU, larger harddisk…. they will subscribe storage online.
Google Application Store!!
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Read more:
http://randle.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/google-chrome-os-revealed/
Doug on the Eclipse CDT: Eclipse OS?.
突然想到,Chrome OS 這一類 Application OS 不只可以用在小形硬件上。而且還可以用在 Visual Machine 上。只要 overhead 做得夠少、夠快,利用 VM Cluster 實現 hardware resource management 的潛力還不少。
遠比 Terminal Server 更加減少配置沒有用到的 resource,彈性更高。
Terminal Server 配置了 4GB 就是 4GB,不會因為負載少而可以把 memory 空出來;負載高的時候,也必需設置另一台 Server 來分流。
但 Application OS 就可以做到,只需把 VM Host 的 cluster 加大/減少即可。
而且閒置了的 resource 是可以被任可 VM Guest 便用。人再多,開的程式更多,也不需要 user 重新登出登入另一台 server 來再分配。
Cons: 每個應用都有一個固定的 memory space 上限,而不能動態負載。
