Chrome OS
Google recently launched it’s Open Source OS, and named it after it’s own browser – Chrome. Google Chrome OS is specifically targeted at netbooks with low processing power. It is built on a linux core and the source will be released in a few months and given the craze and popularity of google products, the Chrome OS will receive a hearty welcome from the Linux and Open source community.
Google Chrome OS will have full cloud support and will actually change the way we use our computers. Some of it’s key features are ::
- All the applications will be on a cloud which will allow connections from peers. This will make it fast and reliable.
- The OS has been developed by incorporating the Chrome Windowing system on top of a customized linux core. This gives the OS it’s speed.
- The webkit based Chrome browser has also incorporates tab-crash recovery which saves the browser from crashing due to a faulty tab. This is a feature, we will see in the OS as well making it crash free to some extent.
- Chrome OS is designed to run on computers powered by the Atom and ARM processors as well. This will cut out on the need for a juice-machine for developers.
- Google has tied up with Acer, Adobe, ASus, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Qualcomm and many other companies to edvelop an OS for netbooks and is awaiting appearance in 2010 . [I am not sure if it is about the Android OS or the Chrome OS].
This cold war between google and Microsoft is getting really intersting. Microsft enters the search market, takes away a share of google’s traffic and now google follows up with the OS reply. But it is this competition which makes them deliver and at the end of the day we, end-users are the winners.
