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Google's Chrome OS might tip up soon
CHINA'S SHANZAI IT news website has reported that Google's Chrome OS might show up in inexpensive Chinese-made netbooks as early as mid-October.
The Linux based Chrome OS apparently has been ported to run on the Loongson 2F processor developed in Mainland China. The Loongson CPU is a low power, ARM-like processor built on the MIPS architecture. As such, it could compete with Intel Atom based netbooks and might be an excellent platform for Google's stripped down Chrome OS.
Loongson processor based machines are built by the partly government owned OEM firm Lemote, which sells the Yeelong netbook PC and Fullong Mini, which apparently is an all-in-one PC. Those systems presently run a Linux derived OS call Lemote Loonux (really, we can't make this stuff up), but that OS has been described as extremely ugly.
Reportedly Richard Stallman, the creator of the GNU software project upon which Linux was built and author of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), owns a Lemote Loongson processor based netbook, which he chose because of its Free Software BIOS.
Chrome OS could conceivably be a good fit for Chinese netbooks expected to cost about $200. If Chrome OS and machines designed around the Loongson MIPS-based processor catch on in China and are exported in large numbers, Intel and Microsoft might well have something new to worry about soon. µ
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"Of course, how you spell something "correctly" in English that is originally written in a pictogram is beyond me."
Actually, the correct English spelling is "Godson", which is actually pronounced "Dog's Leftover".
lemote loonux is very ugly
http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s223/dsobodash/Lemote%20Yeeloong/lemote2.png
The BIOS and the OS (Linux or Chrome OS) that Loongson runs are both available under a free Open Source license.
So where did the "embedded spyware" come from??? It would be *great* if you can point me to the spyware source!! :D
can you say OLPC?
It may be spelled "loongson", but it's actually pronounced "embedded spyware".
Of course, how you spell something "correctly" in English that is originally written in a pictogram is beyond me.
I think the correct spelling is Loongson instead of "Loongsan"...
I think you're confusing Google's Chrome OS with their Chrome web browser.
Google Chrome OS is a Linux based operating system build to compete with the likes of Moblin and Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
I thought chrome was not linux based but built differently for every operating system, hence why they have not released a linux one as they are making it from scratch. Can someone please explain??