Can’t believe this is true but the official Google has announced it has developed a Chrome Operating System targeted towards netbooks.
The announcement same out today:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Google Chrome OS will be based on a Linux kernel and will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. Google is actually talking to several netbook manufacturers to bring the Chrome OS to market by middle of next year.
Google Chrome OS is a separate project from Google Android. Everybody is going to get very busy — Nokia and Intel is cooperating on Moblin, Google has Chrome OS and Microsoft has Windows 7. Since Chrome OS is basically just another Linux flavor, will it succeed or go the same path as Xandros on the Eee PC?
There is also way how to run windows applications on chrome OS .. see tryVPS.com
it promises smaller megabyte footprint, but will it be compatible with some of my needed apps? like Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office Enterprise, and KMP Media Player?
chrome is good and faster than mozilla. Mozilla has some issues now
Well Chrome OS looks promising and with the resources at hand by google I am sure this OS could be better than any linux based OS.
Can’t wait to use this os… Take a look of some Google Chrome OS Leaked Screenshots..
http://dl4free.org/chrome-os-leaked-screenshot-its-faked/