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by Tirian » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:41 am
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by Damorte » Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:53 am
I'm not voting on this yet because from what I read it sounds like its designed only to power netbooks, well I don't own a netbook. What about drivers, and compatibility issues, if we think people had issues with Vista, this will be interesting. It may force manufacturers to develop patches and new drivers if the demand is high enough. I may be willing to try it on a partition, but not as my main OS until its proven itself, thats just me. The public however, is terrified of new things, and until our kids' generation grows up and isn't so chained to MS people won't switch, they just won't.
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by Zancarius » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:28 pm
Tirian knows how to write poll options that only I would vote for.
Rather than rehash my long-winded comments about this, I'll direct you to my response on the topic elsewhere.
Executive summary: It sounds like all they're doing is stripping down the userland a little, writing their own window manager that interacts with Internet-based applications (probably the Google AppEngine), and shipping it for what is roughly an embedded market. Make no mistake about it, netbooks are just barely beyond embedded.
Who knows? It might take off. I'm not so sure people will be comfortable with the notion of having their precious documents stored on someone else's machine, regardless of what they do with e-mail.
Rather than rehash my long-winded comments about this, I'll direct you to my response on the topic elsewhere.
Executive summary: It sounds like all they're doing is stripping down the userland a little, writing their own window manager that interacts with Internet-based applications (probably the Google AppEngine), and shipping it for what is roughly an embedded market. Make no mistake about it, netbooks are just barely beyond embedded.
Who knows? It might take off. I'm not so sure people will be comfortable with the notion of having their precious documents stored on someone else's machine, regardless of what they do with e-mail.
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