Comments on: Google working on a new mystery OS?

By: sarcasmo the clown

sarcasmo the clown — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:57:55 +0000

” MY GUESS is that Google will not copy microsoft or mac looks there going to start over with a brand new OS that will rape or it might jest suck but you cant under estamate google!!!!”

Wow. Eloquent. Did you read that back to yourself before you posted it?

By: Reilly

Reilly — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:40:13 +0000

MY GUESS is that Google will not copy microsoft or mac looks there going to start over with a brand new OS that will rape or it might jest suck but you cant under estamate google!!!!

By: locii

locii — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:29:59 +0000

no google doesn’t know any bound nor should they there amazing and FREE!!

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:19:03 +0000

i hate to break it to you but it’s not as simple as you make it seem. u can’t just set the preferences in a browser

By: skh.pcola

skh.pcola — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:38:25 +0000

JP, I was referring to PHug’s ridiculous comment earlier in the thread. And I’ll stipulate to Window’s “significant flaws,” but only if you allow that Linux/Ubuntu/etc. would have the same flaws if those OSs held a ~90% of the market. It’s the same old story that allows the crApple fanboi brigades to squeal with pleasure about…”OUR OS is sooooooo secure!!!” No it’s not, it’s not worth the script kiddles’ time to exploit such a small user base. Idjits.

@Likeabite: No problems. People who continually kvetch about M$ in general and Windoze in particular are morons who would scratch their bags in befuddlement if they ever faced a command line without a GUI.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:42:45 +0000

@skh.pcola NO idea who you refer in your post. Face it, windows does have significant flaws that are easily exploited – even one failure a month is a failure and upon switching to linux I reboot ONLY when a kernel update is needed. Crashes still happen, but do not bring the kernel down.

As for google and masks – MANY companies mask outbound traffic for many reasons. One can speculate in a thousand different ways, but the fact remains that a smart business will conceal it’s proprietary work from competition. That is akin to a NFL coach hiding his mouth with a play card when communicating strategy.

By: roryok

roryok — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:34:47 +0000

“when they launched chrome they said they wanted other people to use it hinting they wanted mozilla to take the bait… maybe they are coming up with something like that for an os?”

Now There’s an idea I like. Imagine if Google put their weight behind a nice neat, fast, free version of Linux. That would really be something.

“Uh, yeah. About Windoze crashing “all the times.” It doesn’t, unless you are a dumbass who acts like a crApple zoid and randomly clicks on every-damned thing that pops up in your browser.”

Yeah, I’ve been running the same windows session (w/hibernate) for about 2 months now without a crash or a restart. The people who complain about windows crashing all the time are the same stupid people who install every piece of crap that advertises itself in IE and then go buy a dumbed down mac and tell everyone how much better the are. To quote Eddie Izzard, they’re probably the people on the plane who watch when the air hostess does the belt bit.

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:49:59 +0000

Thanks skh.pcola

By: skh.pcola

skh.pcola — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:53 +0000

Uh, yeah. About Windoze crashing “all the times.” It doesn’t, unless you are a dumbass who acts like a crApple zoid and randomly clicks on every-damned thing that pops up in your browser. I’ve owned computers since my first Timex-Sinclair back in ‘82 and I’ve never had a problem with the BSoD…but I’m not a fookin’ noob who tries to connect the doggie door to the bus without the proper interrupts masked, etc. Dumbass. You M$ bashers need to try harder.

By: gibbs

gibbs — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:56:18 +0000

Perhaps they just don’t want people to see that they are using Windows or Mac. I mean in some ways google is competing with these companies, and they don’t want to provide free advertising buy letting people know that google employees use macs or whatever.

By: kozjegyzo

kozjegyzo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:52:31 +0000

Android is the most adaptable mobile OS out there right now. So it would seem logical to adapt it to PC hardware as well.
An other OS would create more competition if it would come from Google. Competition is good for us consumers, so I say go Google, make Android for PC!

By: Brettuthius

Brettuthius — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:35:19 +0000

I would think it’s either from a netbook OS they’re working on or they’re developing an OS to use internally.

I would not be surprised if Goobuntu is in their ‘to-do’ list, but would be surprised if they have plans releasing it anytime soon.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:37:28 +0000

i would just love to have a high profile alternative to crappy vista other than crappy osx
and 70 million linux distros

By: klingoff

klingoff — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:35:23 +0000

Tough to conceal Snow Leopard tracks.

By: likeabite

likeabite — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:52:03 +0000

@MiniMe I have to agree with you…plus I don’t think another OS is neeeded since there really isn’t anything it can offer that mac,linux and Windows doesn’t provide already.

By: Morten

Morten — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:42:38 +0000

I actually think chrome is huge for porn (incognito mode and all). And isn’t that what the internet is all about?

And the google search bar in the adresse field is great. I still use firefox for BGR and stuff though.

By: pmcd

pmcd — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:41:05 +0000

Geez…how many different versions of Unix do we need…

philip

By: MiniMe

MiniMe — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:45:45 +0000

If it was released for commercial use it will be probably the costliest and most prominent failure of Google.

So far Google has failed to deliver any successful products beyond, well, Google (GMail and Google Earth can be viewed as part of its core offering). Chrome make a huge splash just to fade away quickly, Google Apps – hm, any serious users there? Android – we will see, but for far it is nothing special, trailing behind Symbian, WM, Apple and BlackBerry in features.

OS is a huge undertaking. Apple has decades of experience, yet only after an incredible and expensive marketing campaign (of which no one seems to be capable but Apple itself) it gained some market share. Apple played on coolness and visual appeal. Google has one of the most bland, unappealing and overall primitive looking products on the market, so it wouldn’t be able to pull the same. Sun is losing its market, Linux is somewhere down there. What new can Google possibly offer? Just another Chrome – big splash, lots of talk, adoption by a fan base only and a market share way below 1%.

By: santa's helper

santa's helper — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:32:38 +0000

google is like santa claus — “he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake…” … Except when Santa says he isn’t evil, he really, actually isn’t.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:49:23 +0000

when they launched chrome they said they wanted other people to use it hinting they wanted mozilla to take the bait… maybe they are coming up with something like that for an os? or maybe it’s their way of scaring ms and apple…………. i wouldn’t put it past google… i use them for everything except flickr so i’m all in!!! bring on the os goog.

By: Sulli

Sulli — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:26:26 +0000

So Google already has their own OS. They created Goobuntu a few years ago for the developers to use. It is basically a modified version of Ubuntu that includes some additional security, runs big table instances, etc. The OS masking is probably just Goobuntu.

By: J

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:55:18 +0000

“I believe you have to arrange to have that happen, it’s not something we’ve seen before with a proxy server.”

So, a bunch of Google employees are using a web browser with a custom user-agent string that doesn’t contain information on the operating system. That’s remarkably easy to “arrange to have happen” by setting hidden preferences in the web browser and is remarkably flimsy evidence to base such a prediction on. Does this company understand what they’re talking about?

By: PHug

PHug — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:49:21 +0000

I would love a google OS that is fully capable of running windows apps/programs that doesent crash all the times like the actual windows does.
but that’s just me.

By: tony

tony — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:25:25 +0000

a google os would be awesome, but i’m just worried that they are going to turn into microsoft. we don’t need another one of those around.

By: EPS

EPS — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:16:39 +0000

A Google OS would probably be Linux-based, I would think…

Though it seems odd that Google would want to go through creating their own distro when they could just promote one that already exists like Ubuntu or something, they did create their own browser, so who knows?

By: Esquire0399

Esquire0399 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:13:29 +0000

Is Google the next Microsoft? Hm…

By: likeabite

likeabite — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:29:58 +0000

Google just doesn’t know any bounds huh