I think the google OS will possibly be a VERY cool thing, in that
it'll have new "back end underpinnings" based on the work Google has
been doing in-house for years.  It could be as revolutionary as
another "core distro" with it's own way of doing things, maybe even a
whole new package management system.

But it will be set up initially as "web centric" and hence stripped down a lot.

If they do everything right, us geeks will be able to add back in the
local-processing-type-apps we want.  Worst case, doing so would mean a
forked project, the way Ubuntu forked off of Debian.

Thing is, if you're doing a whole new distro from scratch and you've
got Google's resources behind it, you could get really wild.  Put in
"the best of everything": the rebootless kernel updates of ksplice,
Ext4 or something even cooler, etc.

And if it's stripped down for "web only", so what?  Extend from there.
 Extending UP from a small base is safer and simpler than chopping
downwards from a bloated mess!

Jim
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