Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. Announced on July 7, 2009, Chrome OS is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010. The operating system is based on Linux and targets specifically designed hardware. The user interface takes a minimalist approach, resembling that of the Chrome web browser. Because the browser will be the only application residing on the device, Google Chrome OS is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Internet.
At a November 19, 2009 news conference, Sundar Pichai, the Google vice president overseeing Chrome, demonstrated an early version of the operating system, which included a desktop that closely resembled the Chrome browser, but with tabs for frequently used Web-based applications. The netbook running the operating system booted up in seven seconds, a time Google is working to improve. On the same day, Google released Chrome OS's source code under open source licensing as Chromium OS.
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QUOTEIt's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
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.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.
We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.
We have a lot of work to do, and we're definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We're excited for what's to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.
This is going to be using Linux kernel, there will be no x64 versions only x86 and ARM. Internet based, so really you can't do ANYTHING on it without the internet. Though it's going to be free i'm not touching this unless i slap it with a 1gb partition.
Well, i'm sure i'll put it on a small partition to be able to boot up the OS quick when i'm just going to use the web, it'll be great to have as an alternative OS to boot up into...
With the original website they collect and sell data from every search the user makes. With Chrome they collect and sell data from everything the user does within the browser. With Wave they are attempting to collect and sell data from the users social networking habits. Now there's the OS that will allow them to collect and sell data from everything the user does on their computer.
It won't be long before they invent a brain implant where they can collect and sell data every time the user thinks.
EDIT: They probably won't make much money from that one.
Maybe, just maybe, I will dual-boot this next to XP SP3.
This perfect for people who use their PC for internet, but those people don't understand anything about computers...
And I think Chrome OS is okay, but it can be much better.
Using a netbook only for pure cloud computing is a trivial matter. What if the cloud is down? What if you don't have internet? Broadband-speed internet is actually not that common, contrary to popular belief. It almost defeats the purpose of a netbook. How can you work offline when everything is done online?
The Chrome OS is kinda interesting. Could be useful for netbooks and things of that sort. The video is dumbed-down for the normal crowd. A bit weird to do that considering the only people who would be interested in this most likely have good/basic knowledge of a computer.
they kinda forgot that when your offline everything online is completely inaccessable.
Meaning that if you make some documents and turn on your computer to at least read them.... then yoru stuck.
Which in turn makes the OS completely USELESS if you ever have to leave an internet connection.
Course would be kinda dumb to not add hard drive support and the like.
I'm definitly curious. Maybe I'll give it a small try when its out.
Will probably be more of a novelty but will be usefull for setting up quick kiosk like computer setups.
Would be cool if it got ported to the Wii and PSP and the like since it uses minimum data storage.
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