raevol on 9/7/2009 at 23:21
I'm excited that it's open source. This is a big step for linux in general, having a huge company that people actually know putting out a linux-based OS.
No, it's not going to be worth anything to gamers, but if it gets mainstream acceptance it may make game development houses glare uncomfortably at their hacky, worthless directx-only engine programmers.
I'd assume any game that already has a linux client will probably work on Chrome OS, but that's just a shot in the dark.
SubJeff on 9/7/2009 at 23:47
Quote Posted by raevol
hacky, worthless directx-only engine programmers.
Yeah! Screw them for doing their jobs! Screw them into redundancy! Yeah!
Enchantermon on 10/7/2009 at 03:28
Quote Posted by raevol
No, it's not going to be worth anything to gamers, but if it gets mainstream acceptance it may make game development houses glare uncomfortably at their hacky, worthless directx-only engine programmers.
Uh...going mainstream doesn't necessarily mean pushing Microsoft out of the picture. To be honest, it would take nothing short of a global uprising to oust Microsoft to the point where DirectX talent is worthless. Games will still be made for Windows. The question is whether or not they will
also be made for Linux or Chrome OS.
Phatose on 10/7/2009 at 05:21
Hm. If a corporation backing linux and paying someone to do the grunt work and enforce consistency is enough to make desktop linux work for those outside ubernerdom, it plays pretty poorly for open source in general. At the very least, it would be a pretty big finger pointing to the fundamental flaws with the development by mob mentality OSS wears like a badge of honor.
Brian The Dog on 10/7/2009 at 14:09
If game companies released OpenGL versions, would they run on different OS's such as Linux and ChromseOS? That said, very few of the games I have use OpenGL.
There's also the issue of music and dvd's, which is what lots of people use their PC's for. Ubuntu doesn't play them "out-of-the-box", which would probably have to be fixed if ChromeOS is to be taken seriously.
belboz on 10/7/2009 at 14:23
Due to the amount of spyware I get via google adverts shouldn't they call it Goospyop.
heywood on 10/7/2009 at 15:07
Quote Posted by Phatose
Hm. If a corporation backing linux and paying someone to do the grunt work and enforce consistency is enough to make desktop linux work for those outside ubernerdom, it plays pretty poorly for open source in general. At the very least, it would be a pretty big finger pointing to the fundamental flaws with the development by mob mentality OSS wears like a badge of honor.
It doesn't seem that Google's ambition is to deliver a desktop OS based on Linux. Just a phone/PIM/netbook platform with a good browser that runs all the Google apps.
Enchantermon on 10/7/2009 at 15:59
Quote Posted by Brian The Dog
If game companies released OpenGL versions, would they run on different OS's such as Linux and ChromseOS?
As I understand it, that's not the only thing that would have to happen, but it's a step in the right direction.
Brian The Dog on 10/7/2009 at 18:50
Thanks. I get the impression that they want people to move over to Cloud computing, but is this something they're wanting to push with this OS? If so, how are they assuming people are connecting to the internet? I am using a wireless broadband dongle at the minute, and get the breathtaking speeds of about 4kb/s with it most of the time (admittedly it does speed up during the day to around 15kb/s, but it seems this is fairly normal behaviour in London for such things). Cloud computing just won't work with such speeds :(
