Google’s Chrome OS Coming In 2010
Google is planning on launching it’s Chrome OS, an extension of it’s Chrome browser, by mid 2010, and plans on ushering in an era of “speed, simplicity and security” for netbook computers.
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.[from the Google Blog]
This is intended to complement Google’s Android OS which targets cell phones, but has been seen running on some ‘smartbooks’. If you haven’t seen the term smartbook before, it’s understandable. A smartbook is a netbookish sized device with a mobile chipset such as ARM or Tegra. That means no Windows or Ubuntu, but mobile OSes like Android and Windows CE. But I digress…
Chrome OS will be compatible with both desktop and mobile chipsets. Eventually, Google hopes that Chrome will move beyond netbooks and into the desktop space.
Chrome OS is basically the Chrome browser running on a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. Since the browser is the OS, any standards compliant browser on Windows, Mac or Linux can also run Chrome OS applications, which makes potential Chrome apps available to anyone.
On the other hand, Chrome OS is YALOS (Yet Another Linux Operating System), and the history of netbooks has been surprisingly unkind on the peguin. Before the release of the first EEE PC, the low cost hardware was seen as the perfect vehicle to introduce a wider audience to the open source OS. What happened instead was people returning their Linux based netbooks at a much higher rate than the same hardware pre-installed with Windows. With Microsoft making a version Windows 7 aimed at low powered machines (even though the full fledged Windows 7 Ultimate runs better than XP on such systems), Chrome OS may have a bit of an uphill battle.
One thing that Chrome OS has going for it that other Linux distributions is that it’s backed by the Google name. The Google name is huge, and if there’s one company that can make Linux a household OS (if not a household name), it’s Google.
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