I think what he intended to say is that it is not possible to do everything in GUI mode in Linux...I also have the same opinion as him because the Linux command line is not really easy to master..and I felt the documentation is also very hard to understand.Getting help on Linux is also difficult

Leave advanced users everyone who needs to burn a CD(OR DVD, Blu-Ray , HD-DVD ???) can't use such services successfullly because it will be incredibly slower.Then where can it be used In my view it will only be useful for business users who need to share documents and access text data and like.From what we are seeing Google is developing sucha thing, I think the Google Spreadsheet etc are just the parts of an unfinished jig saw.They will include more and more applicaation to it and finally after they develop everything they will make it as a suite and will offer an integrated sulution and collaboration enviornment for business users.

Well, what i meant earlier is that Google could create a system where you can do basic things such as videos, music, burning, chatting and typing. Thats what most people need. I like the extra horsepower on my computer, but as i said earlier, why would a grandpa need a 1.73 GHZ system with 512 mb ram and windows xp. Why not go light on the OS.

Hey, but what about the Debian and Ubuntu, Kubuntu forums. If you can't find it in any guides, then you could always ask on certain forums.

Must say quite a blizzard idea.... Creating online OS. Let us imagine the possibilities. How will you connect to net without a OS??? The only possibility is, whoever is hosting the OS should provide a machine which can access the Online OS. In other words, we need 2 OS instead of one!

The other thing is, why would we need such an OS? It sounds too stupid to me to install all my favourite software in one corner of the world which doesn't even belong to me! Come to think of it, what will be the end system? What good will it serve to have an OS up there in the net? When someone asks about what's the system config of yours? What are we gonna tell? My OS runs in one corner of the world about which I have no idea? Of what use will our processors be?

Having softwares online makes sense. But, OS? Give me a break... We can already share pics, data, videos and what not? There are so many hosting servers who offer us space. Agreed that applications like Google spreadsheet are really handy(Very useful in status reporting and all as multiple users can update the same document from across the globe). Irrespective of having OS online, we would still need another machine with an OS to connect to this OS.

How do you expect these so called "Online OS" to run? Will the apps get downloaded onto your machine and run there or will they be running on one remote server and you are just watching the "Logs/results" of your operation?


Having an online OS doesn't make sense. Having online applications do.


As far as Linux is concerned, it would have reached heights if everyone focused on having single Linux. Now every Tom,**** and Harry want to have their own linux. There are so many flavours of Linux but none too perfect. (The only Linux/Unix OS which I found amazing was Solaris.) Otherwise in one way or the other Linux bugs us. When I got my PC recently I died hard installing various Linux versions... They didn't help me much. They all gave funny errors in one way or the other. (Tried Ubuntu, Fedora Core 5, Mandrake, Suse...) The only thing about linux is it will not hang like windows but throws funny/irrelevant error messages.

All linux flavors are good in their own ways but none too perfect. That's the only problem with Linux. And honestly Support for linux is really bad. Linux has potential, let us see how future of Linux goes...


May be I blabbered too much;may be I was incoherent, am too busy, no time to focus. Just wanted to put my views forward.

Don't advice me about asking at the forums I don't find the people there really helpful, I have tried such options but response is very low (at most times zero).But I will learn Linux because I am determined but I won't be able to make it come my way.
I really didn't find "any" need for replacing my Windows box to Linux.

Are you telling that burning CDs is a light task.Anyway you need a CD-RW then why stream data from another continent and slow the whole process down.If people start to use it so massivly it will not be a viable business idea too.May be they can survive using advertising revenue..but if it becomes intrusive in some way thier business is DEAD.

cool, the google operating system sounds wierd like their a search engine/site advertisement, its wierd how they are now going into operating systems. I like googles adsense though. really cool how u get paid per click.
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I like this forum many things to talkabout by the way how do i get the hosting when i get 10 or 30 credits?

Google operating system would grow very popular i feel if designed properly and i feel google can also provide the service free by ad's as the only source of revenue.
But the only problem after that we would face that google goes very giant and becomes the next god like company which has a lot of control on your privacy data,and obviously on your life and i don't deel any company should have a large no. of control of any market share as it would lead to company's monopoly which then hurts its users
hey, i think you forget cd and dvd hardware in the machine you suggested

i've found a very good link about some currently available web-os'es. The link seems to be down atm, but I'll probably get up as soon as possible (I hope ): http://franticindustries.com/blog/2006/12/...stems-reviewed/

I really look forward to this OS. I mean, anything that google produces is really produced well. Their search engine is excellent, and they're applications like gmail and gtalk are great too. I think an OS by them will be what people have always wanted! I know I would love to test it out.