OK I admit I was one of those noo not a cloud type person. I'm not keen on the google tracking stuff, etc...
But...
I have to say now finally there is a chromium native 64bit (yeah..!) I'm impressed. To be honest I started of with a gmail acc as it was the only one I could use when I was playing with mail servers.
All in all I've been impressed with each bit I've stumbled across, I am beginning to see how cloud computing is going to take off.
Gmail heah what's to say an email acc is an email acc but I do like the rewrite or no rewrite method when forwarding through it.
Gdocs well again been pleasently surprised by the formats OK heard of slight problems with importing spreadsheets and haven't touched it but seems to have a multiple of formats and the collaboration side is pretty impressive. I also suspect it will be better when the doc is written using the interface over importing(When Vanish is fully implemented or the version control can be managed it'll become better still in my eyes.)
Chromium I just don't know what to say OK bit annoyed with the lack of adblocking/extensions but as I only really have adblock and firebug(Though play with Vanish), and the source view is pretty damn close to firebug can't say I'm missing much(Though I suspect some aspects of multimedia playback may be problematic).
I'm noticing more and more projects hosting on google code now.
All in all I actually think some people are going to have some major competition in the near future. I know the fors and against for cloud computing but it seems some quite reputable companies are embracing it. I certainly will be testing the distro when it comes out as all in all I'm more impressed than disappointed. I actually find it embarrassing the years spent on various browsers and TBH chromium whips there backsides. Will it become my main browser not sure at the moment but with adblock probably.
So all in all I'm impressed just wondered what others thought. I do actually think if they continue producing code that they seem to be doing, then there is a few linux distro's that are going to lose out and even on the commercial front. I suspect when html 5 begins to take off and I also reckon googles OS will be using a fair few bits of this. I suspect they will be using the offline aspects, then sync you see this already vaguely implemented in chromium with bookmarks. I'm imagining it will get to the point where it wont matter what PC you use you will be back exactly where you left from.
I suspect I will become more interested in some of the Google offerings ( have used Gmail since it was invite only) if I get Broadband. Many of the so called cloud features would require very fast reliable connections.
Well not really that would be more the sync side of things, which whilst nice isn't a need. I would of thought that in one aspect it will benefit people with low b/w why well nothing is being uploaded or downloaded(As such just browser pages), its just a browser. Unlike a distro where if it is disrupted its borked, at least that seems to be my latest on m5.
Gwave is another thing looking good.
As for chromium I can't stop just going wow been on it for a couple of hours flash is working fine multimedia with the gecko-mediaplayer is gripey, I found a test page which mostly works but, apple trailers just cache loop and never play.
Even editing here is far less painless. No more added spaces no need for adding spaces to delete.
Maybe I should be checking this out, but (like Mattb4) being on dial up I've assumed things would just be too slow. I know with gmail, trying to read and manage mail takes forever online; I just download my email to Thunderbird (I can do something else while the download is taking place), then I can rip through whatever I've got in no time at all. When I'm at my wife's place (where she has cable) and check, leaving the mail on the server, it's quite doable online (although I still prefer using Thunderbird). Perhaps the other apps are different; I'll look into them sometime. But I'm still one who distrusts the whole priciple of the cloud and having Google (or whoever)in charge of everything. Between microsoft and Google, I'll take Google every time, but I still mistrust having *anybody* take care of my data but me.
I watched the presentation in Australia on Google Wave. Now that was impressive.
I like all the noise that I hear from Google. (But I still like and use firefox).
But if you think about it - this forum is really a form of the cloud - editor is supplied from above, and content is stored there !
Are you building Chrome yourself, or is there an rpm available someplace now? I'd like to try it, but to lazy to compile it all myself. I know there are .deb files for those other distros.
@bd
Ben builds and provides RPMs for SUSE but it seems his site is down right now, no idea why. I grabbed my chrome rpm from him a week ago or so. Hopefully it'll come back on later
http://www.benkevan.com/blog/google-chrome-native-linux-client-on-opensuse/
I am interested in chrome, from what I have heard it is very fast. Since the download is about 13MB I have to wait until I know it is solid since on Dialup that is over a hour to D/L.
As for me different distro but its the Ubuntu build repackaged there is a svn build but not that interested its become my mainstream browser. Be relatively easy for me to get the latest just need to change a version number to one that matches here http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/
At the moment on svn20090818r23670 so 5 days old.
Definitely slightly buggy but all in all impressed.
Wouldn't of thought it would be too difficult to wrap up into a rpm for a local install maybe even alien but not something I've ever played with.
The above link doesn't look like the native build at first glance though and looks old 4.0.203.0 is the version I have.
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