GNU founder: using Chrome OS is "careless computing"

GNU founder: using Chrome OS is "careless computing"

This opens a big can of worms for those who strive to keep their privacy.

Read more here - http://www.techspot.com/news/41575-g...computing.html

I don't see the can of worms. Who's forcing people to use this OS?

You know how everyone talks regardless of whether they are involved or not.

You're right, everyone does talk, especially Stallman. He talks too much for his own good, but I feel that everyone ought to be able to express their opinion, regardless if it's understandable or not. I've read a ton of his articles.

But I don't think it'll matter, users won't be flocking to Chrome OS over Windows 7, or even XP. On two occasions, early this year and last month, I've ran the OS, it's just not appealing at all. Linux Mint & Ubuntu should have no problem in retaining their leads in the Linux world. They both are easier to use, and far more elegant, especially Mint.

It will probably replace the Windows CE netbooks that are being sold for $100 (or less), but other than that, it's not a threat at all. As far as the privacy issues goes, anyone who uses Google products should be aware of them by now, it's all in the media, pics of homes that are on the verge of trespassing, they're into everything.

The only reason that I even tried out the OS was to see if it was any good at all, the first version was as elementary as I've ever seen an OS. The last isn't much better. It has a long way to go yet to be a real contender.

Cat

Do you have a link where I can download it?

It was a torrent file, I'll have to look it up again, then post the link.

PS: Here it is:

http://getchrome.eu/download.php

You'll have to create a free account with Easy Share to download the file.

Cat

They pull the "slow download" on you if you don't pay. If you know of another way to find it, the name of the file is:

Chrome_OS.i686-0.9.570.iso

The last time I downloaded it, it was a torrent file, apparently things have changed.

PS: There are still torrents, you just need to type the file name in the search box.

Cat

I just installed the latest version of Google Chrome OS inside of VirtualBox, and I can only say that it must be a joke. There's no way that this could possibly take from M$, still a very elementary OS, to say the best.

I concede, Google may have the search engine in their hands, but they have a long way to go to be in the OS business. This (Chrome OS) looks like something that a bunch of stoned teens came up with, with so few options, although you can now select Bing as your search engine, and can install Firefox. But a full fledged OS takes a lot more than that.

Looking at it, it reminds me so much of the failed Linux OS "Freespire", another piece of crap. But anyone who wants to try, go for it.

Cat

Is this a legal download?

EDIT: Nevermind. What you're posting a link to is a fan-made "Chrome OS Linux" which is NOT Google's product. It's a customized Linux distro based on SUSE.

Is Google Chrome OS free?
Yes – Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost.
Source
So any torrent sharing the file would be legal.

But as always scan for viruses as you never know what somebody else may add to a torrent.