Author: Philip Stubbs Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Google Chrome OS..?
2009/7/9 The Holy ettlz <theholyettlz@???>: > Personally, I don't care much for Chrome OS per se, but I do look
> forward to any benefits and improved hardware support that we see
> finding its way back into the mainline kernel. I just hope Google uses
> any leverage it has to make hardware developers release specs and make
> their kit compliant with those specs (not mired in a truckload of bugs
> or 50 pages of incomplete errata that miss out on the biggest
> braindeadnesses that the developers have to work around the hard way).
> In particular, I hope it'll make those persistent off-vendors of broken
> ACPI tables clean up their act.
>
> And, no, commitments to developing kernel shims and binary-only drivers
> will not be good enough.
>
Apparently Adobe are supporting this. So I hope that means a decent
Flash player becomes available. I know Flash is evil, but it would be
easier to tolerate the evil if it worked properly. We can even hope
that Google can convince Adobe to open source it!
