Chromoting: The Key to Running Legacy PC Apps on Chrome OS

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Keith E. Whisman

June 12, 2010 at 3:58am

I don't understand. From within the browser? The browser is the freaking OS. LOL.. But anyhow he describes accessing legacy PC software in the browser from something like a remote desktop, does he mean that you will be able to access your windows PC through the internet to access your computer or does he mean there is going to be a capability of actually running Windows software on the Google OS like using windows emulators like WINE since Google OS is based off of Linux?

So actually the desktop is the browser window in google os and you'll have to run your windows programs from an emulator but in the browser. Neato. I just hope that it allows you to physically install the programs on your Google OS computer instead of requiring the Internet.

The reason why I hate the cloud idea is because the internet just isn't optimized for it in the USA yet. With bandwidth caps and tiered pricing scheme we definitely aint ready. Hell I have a 3G broadband service on my laptop and it just plain sucks. It's really slow and it's 3G. Not nearly as fast as Cable or DSL.

Currently the ISP's seem to be wishing they could go back to the day when they got away with charging by the hour for internet access and that was truly cruel because back then the freaking internet took forever on slow ass analog phone modems.

In the USA we pretty much need a government subsidized broadband thing. Private companies are never going to bring the US up to par with the rest of the world. We need government control when it comes to this and I hate government control of anything. Pretty much the Internet is going to have to change into a utility with gigabit or faster network line wired into every home along with the land line phone lines and power lines. You would have ISP's that provide the net access but the government would have complete oversight to prevent gouging. 

Basically the way ISP's function in this country is going to have to change from a governmental stand point in order for Cloud to truly be the way of the future and that future is actually further off then anyone realizes. It's going to take a bunch of failed cloud OS's to prove my point. We aint ready for cloud computing. Maybe in Japan where they have more broadband.  

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whr4usa

June 12, 2010 at 12:55pm

just being picky to clear up a little confusion that seems apparent to me

 a few analogies here

chrome browser == windows explorer (as in explorer.exe, the graphical interface between the filesystem & usermode apllications)

chromoting == remote desktop . . . it'll be similar to how remote desktop is utilized on windows 7 with windows virtual pc for integrtion features with xp mode & windows 7 or vista virtual machines in that all of the functionality is local but virtual yet the actual code is on a server somewhere. (the server in my example being the host os of w7 & in the case of chrome os - google's servers) no emulation  ...per se ha

 linux kernel == windows kernel . . . linux is the "operating system" not chrome, not webos, ubuntu or fedora either while I'm at it lol. ohk being picky, I know but just being accurate nothing personal

 

on a side note cox cable & verizon fios have amazing service in that order, comcast is the big offender followed by timewarner

if you need high bandwidth get a job in an area near a university, isp hq or capital city etc.

what we need is government deregulation of isp @ the lower levels (state & local) but increased oversight (oversight, funding & restructuring of existing regulatory bodies etc.) from the federal level, allow monopolies for individual types of services (cable, dsl, satelite etc.) & oversee them similar to how utilities can have power, water, sewge etc. monopolies on a metropolitan region but are overseen by state commissions that muyst approve all of their business decisions that affect consumer costs, then still encourage new competitors by having substantial temporary yet renewable tax breaks available for entrepreneurs or existing corporations that want to invest in new infrastructure or create a new competing company locally

my 2 cents worth. 

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aviaggio

June 12, 2010 at 11:04am

I suspect the apps will be run on Google's servers and fed to the browser, just like it would be with a remote desktop connection or a browser-based MMO. It's unlikely you'll be able to do anything offline. But then again, it is ChromeOS. The entire point is that you need to always be connected.

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fusobotic

June 12, 2010 at 8:05am

Government should have nothing to do with the internet. The internet is a freedom of speech, people's devices talking to each other, sharing information. When you introduce the government into this, regulation, tracking what people do, and if you use cloud, they'll know all of your private information. It'll be China all over again.

As long as there's competition between internet providers, there will still be innovation, have you seen what they've been working on at Google lately? Super fast internet speeds. Just what you wanted.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html 

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