Google Chrome OS Release Date Expectation

Last night Google Blog posted “Introducing the Google Chrome OS” but no release date was confirmed. Sundar Pichai said Chrome OS is going to be released later this year but our expetation is that Google is going to release it little bit after Windows 7 which is in October.

Google is very known for releasing applications to production week before some other company does. Take a look at the Android 1.5 OS for example, they released it before iPhone OS 3.0 came out. Another good example is Chrome Browser which was released on September of last year but just about 1 month before Chrome was released Firefox 3 came out.

Google tactic is very predictable when it comes to releasing something to production.

First application release they usually do it after some other competitor, because they track users reaction and have 1-2 months of time to either implement “new features” or fix same bugs users complain about it.

By the second release to production they tend to release software before the competitor does.

Using SSH Tunnel to connecting the internet

Will the idea is using the SSH secure channel for browsing the internet how we do that:

First we need to connect to our SSH domain BUT using the -D option with the port 8080

will : ssh root@the-ip -D 8080

and then in the fire fox browser all we need to do is :

Edit >> Preferences >> Advanced >> Network >> Sittings >> Manual proxy configuration >> and change

the SOCKS Host to : 127.0.0.1 and the port to 8080

That is it now you can browsing the internet in a secure mode !!