HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

I believe most here have already read about Google starting up an operating system of their own, Chrome OS to compete with Windows as their next project. I’ll share some of my feelings about good, bad and the futile related to this hopefully neat project.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Google want’s to provide users with an OS that boots up lightning fast and ready for web in seconds from switching power on. They want the system not to clutter up but always run as fast as anew. They want to provide an OS where there is no fuss and fighting with new hardware, configuring the system (that usually needs knowledge below the average) and no updates that break things or change&confuse the user interface. This all sounds good - and it also already sound familiar.

Gathered not from Chrome OS official blog but from a zdnet blog entry, let’s check some known facts:

• It runs on top of Linux kernel.
• It will boot directly into the Chrome Web browser
• It will be aimed primarily at netbooks
• It will run on both x86 and ARM processors
• It will not be designed to have local storage; all data will be stored in the cloud
• Google will not entice developers to build software to run on the Chrome OS; instead, they want them to build Web apps that will run on any standards-based browser
• The three most important features will be “speed, simplicity and security”, according to Google
• Google will release the software to the open source community before the end of 2009
• Announced Chrome OS hardware partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.
• Netbooks running Chrome OS will be available in the second half of 2010

Well, guys (and girls <3 )… I haven’t written anything for some while because I decided to take a vacation. Now I feel bad about it because this is not my job, this is my hobby and I don’t really understand why I haven’t just kept on blogging. Well, anyway, expect some new writings here again :)

On another subject, this very server (named salamanteri) was under attack. Surprisingly though it was not an attack through the internet - it was a very physical attack. What can I tell about it? Well, it was me and my friends having a laugh, drinking way too much beer. My friend got in an argument with my other friend, one thing led to another and in the end I was in fight with my friend and he was attacking my computer very physically. Thank goodness nothing on my server was broken (but my desktop system is another case - although weird, nobody remembers anything happening to it, might be just a normal hardware problem). In the end I can only quote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and ask you to consider alcohol just another drug, and not exactly a mild one): “One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye“.

Well, that’s about it… I will return soon, probably writing about Linux and gamers. A very popular subject I might claim.