Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Rob Beard
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough : > >> There is an Ubuntu-based distro that bundles Chrome. It's link-bait, >> > > You're thinking of the one made with the SuSE builder. That's not the > same as the real thing. > > The BBC are _right_. Google Chrome/Chromium OS _is_ based

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Dave Rice
and it works fairly well too. got it running in VirtualBox but i couldn't get a usb image to install still - an intersting bit of kit... cheers 2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough > 2009/11/20 Alan Pope : > > 2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough : > >> There is an Ubuntu-based distro that bundles Chrome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/20 Alan Pope : > 2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough : >> There is an Ubuntu-based distro that bundles Chrome. It's link-bait, > > You're thinking of the one made with the SuSE builder. That's not the > same as the real thing. > > The BBC are _right_. Google Chrome/Chromium OS _is_ based on some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough : > There is an Ubuntu-based distro that bundles Chrome. It's link-bait, You're thinking of the one made with the SuSE builder. That's not the same as the real thing. The BBC are _right_. Google Chrome/Chromium OS _is_ based on some Ubuntu underpinnings. Cheers, Al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Jamie Bennett
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 21:35 +, Barry Titterton wrote: > The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on > Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this? Canonical are working to supply technology and expertise to Google for Chrome OS. http://blog.canonical.com/?p=294 >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread CShadowRun
Barry Titterton wrote: > The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on > Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this? > > Barry > > > Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract While the two operating systems share some core components, Google Chro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/20 Barry Titterton : > The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on > Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this? > There are common components in Google Chrome OS that exist in Ubuntu. The system boots to a logon screen and once logged in (with a google/gmail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/20 Barry Titterton : > The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on > Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this? > > Barry > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > There is

[ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Barry Titterton
The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this? Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread mac
mac wrote: > BBC: (I haven't tried all of these, but the ones I have tried do work; > you need gstreamer-plugins-ugly): Forgot to say that these URLs seem to work with Rhythmbox (though I normally play radio streams through Slimdevices/Logitech SqueezeCentre + Squeezeboxes). mac -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread mac
Robert Longstaff wrote: >> They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as >> far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players >> (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no >> way of stripping the DRM without using Windows. > > I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Longstaff
> They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as > far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players > (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no > way of stripping the DRM without using Windows. I don't know if the Radio 4 stream

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread Vinothan Shankar
2009/11/7 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk > On the other hand, do the > BBC offer Windows Media streams, as if they do you might be able to feed > them into mplayer. > > Rob > They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux m