[olug] Google's Secret OS

Will Langford unfies at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 01:57:40 UTC 2008


>
> > On the desktop, there'd be no role for such a thing.  There's plenty of
> > other unices out there and people have their favorite... pushing an
> entire
> > OS would be self defeating.
>
> How about a browser-only DE?
>


I recall a lot of attempts and thoughts about this long time ago.

For an office thin client, it kinda makes sense.  For everything else, it's
bonkers.  Take a quad core system and reduce it to a 100mhz 486 or worse -
no thanks.

-Will



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