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Tuesday Jul 07, 2009
Google announced Chrome based web OS
Wow!! Google announced the Chrome OS tonight. The following is a brief summary of Google's announcement:
- an open source, lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks.
- code will be open-sourced later this year
- Chrome OS netbooks will be available in the second half of 2010
- the OS run on both x86 as well as ARM chips
- the OS is running on top of a Linux kernel
- this is a new project, separate from Android
- more updates in the fall
Looks like this is a virtual OS layer on top of a Linux kernel. Very much like what I pointed out last year when Chorme was released, see Google Chrome, a solid foundation for modern web applications.
Posted at 10:43PM Jul 07, 2009 by tientienli in Personal | Comments[2]
Chrome OS? OS on a Linux Kernel?? Seems to me that 1 - the Linux Kernel IS the OS. 2- Could (with more work) also be done on an OpenSolaris Kernel (a la JEOS). 3- Will cause yet more fragmentation in this niche and others... my 2 cents.
Posted by Ben on July 08, 2009 at 12:08 AM PDT #
It is a OS designed for running web apps. I think it will use the Linux kernel for process management + drivers and add windowing + web layers on top of that. Yes, this can be done with any OS kernel, but the key value added piece is the Chrome based web app run-time.
Posted by tientien li on July 08, 2009 at 08:09 AM PDT #