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Talking about that, what's the status of ChromeOS?

Right now they're working on introducing the Aura window manager, so the look and feel is slightly more on the regular OS side, than the previous "browser window only" experience. And I guess it's okay in the field it's aiming for, being a web apps only OS, but I still felt pretty uneasy using it, even though I knew I have a stable internet connection and all. My guess is this will be pushed out to all the existing (and new) Chromebooks soon, which is kind of nice for people who got one, but yeah, I won't be rushing to get it anytime soon.

Will be interesting to see where they take it after Aura's been pushed out, but all in all I see it moving either to a more traditional desktop (introducing installable apps) or moving it towards Android (with web apps being just another option to be used for Android app development).

Right now they're working on introducing the Aura window manager, so the look and feel is slightly more on the regular OS side, than the previous "browser window only" experience. And I guess it's okay in the field it's aiming for, being a web apps only OS, but I still felt pretty uneasy using it, even though I knew I have a stable internet connection and all. My guess is this will be pushed out to all the existing (and new) Chromebooks soon, which is kind of nice for people who got one, but yeah, I won't be rushing to get it anytime soon.

I honestly thought Chrome OS pretty much died. After all the initial buzz I haven't seen much news about it. I just don't get its place between the regular desktop OS and mobile OS. Even though I have a new iPad Wi-Fi + 4G and great coverage throughout the Netherlands I'm still glad everything is available to me when the device is offline. If only because of the data plans we have nowadays. I also have no idea why I would choose this over, let's say, Ubuntu.

The background photo I took myself right outside an In N' Out in Ontario, CA since this is my first time ever being in this state. The icons are Faenza Wolfe Debian, and are available on Gnome-look.org . The metacity window border is Shiki-Colors-Easy-Metacity, also available on gnome-look.org . I'm running Debian Squeeze 64 bit.

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