[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Jul 8 13:05:31 CDT 2009


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
> 
> Bleh.  The world doesn't need another Linux distribution.

This doesn't read to me as "another Linux distribution" so much as
"We're going to turn general-purpose computers into single-purpose
web-browser appliances".  When all you have is a hammer, everything
looks like a nail, and Google has a really big hammer.


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