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Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by phpnode »

izacus wrote: post #62
Hydraulix989 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never understood why ChromeOS existed in the first place. To me, it would make much more sense if these devices ran Android. After all, there's no apps for ChromeOS -- other than glorified Chrome extensions, and it's not easy for developers to create ChromeOS apps (whereas if I could recycle my Android app, life would be good). Arc welder doesn't seem to work very well either. Analogously, Apple only has iOS. There…

Because it's the perfect Enterprise OS for companies, schools and other organizations that have moved to the web. Currently there's just no OS that would rival ease of deployment for large scale thin clients. Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools and even iOS/OS X is orders of magnitude more expensive and harder to provision, keep updated and running.

> Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools

It would be orders of magnitude more cost efficient to just create those tools, compared to creating an entire new operating system.

Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by masklinn »

tpio wrote: post #66

The only thing I took away from that page was the fact that they removed the pipe symbol. Basically rendering 20 years of linux programs garbage. (I guess we can remap it, but wtf). The pipe symbol is like the windows-button of linux – except way more powerful.

It's not just the pipe.

* no braces or square brackets

* no tilde

* no backtick

* no backslash

* no ESC key

* the TAB key has also been severely shrunk, the quote/double-quote key is also much smaller than normal

> all the function/quick access keys are gone

Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by baldfat »

zmmmmm wrote: post #23
bergie wrote: post #16

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Devtools and Crouton would make this a pretty interesting device

Key problem is it's ARM and not Intel processor. How much of a real developer experience a crouton style solution enables on ARM, I'm not sure. But I'm guessing it's a lot more limited.

Sorry this is snarky but a quick Google search would have shown you some good short resources to data.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Linux+arm+support

Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by tdkl »

aceperry wrote: post #57
zmmmmm wrote: post #23

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Key problem is it's ARM and not Intel processor. How much of a real developer experience a crouton style solution enables on ARM, I'm not sure. But I'm guessing it's a lot more limited.

How do you know that it runs ARM?

It runs Tegra X1 SOC : http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-x1-processor.html

Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by eloisant »

phpnode wrote: post #71
izacus wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's the perfect Enterprise OS for companies, schools and other organizations that have moved to the web. Currently there's just no OS that would rival ease of deployment for large scale thin clients. Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools and even iOS/OS X is orders of magnitude more expensive and harder to provision, keep updated and running.

> Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools It would be orders of magnitude more cost efficient to just create those tools, compared to creating an entire new operating system.

Considering that the "new operating system" is pretty much Chrome running over Linux without any Window Manager, I'm not that sure.

Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by mtw »

tpio wrote: post #66

The only thing I took away from that page was the fact that they removed the pipe symbol. Basically rendering 20 years of linux programs garbage. (I guess we can remap it, but wtf). The pipe symbol is like the windows-button of linux – except way more powerful.

Its most likely optimized for YouTube, Netflix, google docs and hangout... You should look out for Chromebooks if you are looking for a small laptop to hack on and install Linux

Re: Introducing Pixel C

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Post by kelvin0 »

jevgeni wrote: post #54

And there I was excited for a minute of a new C language variant focused on graphics...

Kids with high Karma post the darndest things ... Daddy, when I grow my Karma will I be able to post such content and have it fly high on the first page?
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