Well the Google ChromeOS has been getting some buzz around the water cooler lately. So what does it means for us in terms of the designers for PC/OS and really what it means for PC/OS WebStation. While there are several Netbook specific Linux distributions for that purpose. But, what do they offer thats compelling for the user? There is no consistency between the user experience. If you look at all of the Netbook releases and their desktop counterparts whats the one thing you notice? They all look different, night and day different. With PC/OS we strive to have the user experience consistent between the releases. If you look at OpenWorkstation and WebStation and even OpenServer System, whats the first thing you notice? Its the same UI, same experience. So how do we beat Googles ChromeOS? While we do use Googles app lineup, we are totally different. Google wants everything browser based and everything stored on the web. We do realize that some things like audio and video dont function well on the web. You will always have that latency between the upload to the playback. Google wants to take the user out of the computer and we dont believe that is the way to do business and we dont believe this is what the user wants.
Productivity and time management, Google wants their productivity apps online. We do realize thats important but we also offer the Office kit so in those cases of network downtime where ChromeOS will be pretty much useless, users can still get PC/OS to do what they want it to do. Users can still work on their documents, their spread sheets etc.
Expandability, PC/OS will always be expandable, meaning you can add whatever apps you wish to have on your PC/OS system. Google wants to take the Apple approach where you have to basically use the apps that they prescribe and that they "approve" of. Users like to change themes, add wallpapers and basically customize their systems the way they want to. With ChromeOS you cant do that, with PC/OS you can do it.
Information management, We believe that the users machine is theirs and if they want to use that giant 160gb HD that comes with their netbooks, they can. Users want to be able to know where their documents are and who is looking at them. With PC/OS you can, and Googles ChromeOS you cant. Remember, its stored on the internet. Google wants everything to be web based, whereas with PC/OS we are taking more of a smartphone approach with the way the information is presented.
So when it comes to the future what would you rather have, a very closed Linux based distribution, ChromeOS or would you rather continue to have control over YOUR computer. The choice is yours, the red pill or the blue pill.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
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PC/OS Roots
PC/OS roots are derived from the Ubuntu distribution. Ubuntu is created and maintained by Canonical Inc. and has a vast community support system. By basing PC/OS on this outstanding base we cover two grounds, a lot of the problems and fixes are in line with Ubuntu. Many fixes for Ubuntu and Xubuntu work on PC/OS. All software compiled for Ubuntu runs on PC/OS and should anything happen to PC/OS users can still get their fixes from Canonical and maintain their distribution and makes the migration smoother. The desktop is based off of XFCE and is laid out similar to the BeOS. PC/OS does not aim to be a ground up reimplementation of the BeOS but to be as simple to use as the BeOS was. The XFCE desktop is light,modern and powerful. It can be used to power the newest workstations as well as older hardware allowing you to get the maximum potential out of your investment.
What can I do with PC/OS
It is your computer, do with it what you want. if you want to watch that Windows Media file, go right ahead. Your music files not in .ogg, thats fine by us. Do you want to watch that flash video on YouTube? go ahead.
Of course, we do encourage the open route. Open Source doesn't survive without contribution but you as users should have the freedom to do whatever it is you want to do.
What can I do with PC/OS
It is your computer, do with it what you want. if you want to watch that Windows Media file, go right ahead. Your music files not in .ogg, thats fine by us. Do you want to watch that flash video on YouTube? go ahead.
Of course, we do encourage the open route. Open Source doesn't survive without contribution but you as users should have the freedom to do whatever it is you want to do.
We also encourage consistency. XFCE is our desktop, not GNOME, not KDE, not TWM, not PWM. of course in accordance with our first part of the mission statement the others are available for download and installation.
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I am using the PC/OS Webstation, and I like it a lot because of exactly what you mentioned. I can make it what I want it to be, with what I use, or want. The only problem I have experiaeced so far is the remastersys
program runs as it is supposed to, but when I try to install my personally remastered disk, it crashes during install, every time I have tried it, which is somewhere around 5 times. Each time it works as it is supposed to, but fails during install. I haven't had this happen with other "brands" of Ubuntu origin. Other than this one hickup, PC/OS is a very nice, and clean piece of business, and works well. Nice work.
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