[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Phil Stracchino]

Michael Parson wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>> The problem I see with that is, the "Linux on the Desktop" as it were,
>> was the original idea behind Red Hat and it has never taken off to the
>> point that enough people actually run Linux on their desktop computers
>> that anyone says it's a serious contender against Windows.
> 
> I don't know that I ever thought of the earlier Red Hat releases as
> seriously attempting to be desktop-ready.  As I recall, the first real
> effort to make a desktop friendly Linux was Caldera Desktop Linux, which
> was based off Red Hat (2.something, IIRC),

I think we have different definitions of "desktop ready".  In
particular, I suspect what you mean here is something rather closer to
"looks and works just like Windows".

"Desktop" does not imply "Windows".


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