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A lot of people at the moment are immensely intrigued by Google Chrome OS. I won’t hide that I am one of them. Google promises a much needed shift in the way small computers work. Problems like software updates, backups, installation, maintenance, viruses, have plagued the world for too long: a shift is way overdue. To me, however, the change about to happen shows us what many people have refused to believe for a long time: KDE and GNOME shot...  

It's time for some speculation! Ever since the Chrome OS Developer chat people have been speculating like crazy over the future of Chrome OS. According to Fudzilla, Linux expert Glyn Moody weighed in recently and speculated that Google could be working on ...  

Microsoft Corporation heaved a huge sigh of relief after Google released the developers’ build edition of its much anticipated operating system, Google Chrome OS. Before the release of the test version, there had been intense speculations across the web that Google Chrome OS might be the one that would kill Microsoft Windows operating system once [...]  

Benchmarking the very earliest publicly-available code for Google Chrome OS seems destined to only highlight the platform’s early stage of development, especially when you throw rivals such as Moblin 2.1, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Fedora 12 and openSUSE 11.2 into the mixture.  Still, that’s just what Phoronix have done, and unsurprisingly the new Google netbook OS came in last position. Phoronix used a Samsung NC10 as their test mule, and...  

As part of the Chromium project Google is releasing an Operating System. This is based on Linux however it is highly secured so the only applications that can run on it are web apps. Does this include Flash or Silverlight? Its meant for people who spend their time browsing the web, not writing applications. Thus it's not a challenge to Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Cynics of course cite the analogy of the original iPhone which didn't run Apps...  

Google released its Chrome operating system, built around security, simplicity and speed, to the open-source community last week. Designed for netbooks, the OS is expected to give Microsoft a run for its money. Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at chipmaker ARM, discusses what Chrome means to the industry, and outlines ARM’s plan for [...]  

Back in July, Google’s execs were grudgingly agreeing that Google Chrome OS and Android have “a great deal of commonality” and “may merge even closer.”  Now co-founder Sergey Brin has further stoked that speculation, telling reporters after last week’s Chrome OS reveal that “Android and Chrome will likely converge over time”.  Brin pointed to the common Linux and Webkit browser code as existing points of convergence in the two open-source...  

Much abuzz on the Web, the first betas of Google’s Chrome OS are out. What does this operating system give you at this point? IT pro Rick Vanover walks through a Chrome OS beta. ——————————————————————————————————————- In June of this year, Google announced that Google Chrome OS is a new initiative that follows the successful Chrome Browser. Just what is Chrome OS? Well, at this point it is not too much more than an operating system hosting the...  

Last week Google unveiled a first glimpse at Chrome OS, their web-only operating system slated for wide release in 2010. So now that you've had time to sit with the idea, we want to know what you think of it. We've seen plenty of "this will never work" press since the Chrome OS event last week, but we actually like a lot of the ideas behind Chrome OS, and if nothing else, we love seeing more variety and competition in viable consumer operating...  

It's my day off, and I just finished playing with Chromium in VirtualBox. It's even worse than I thought. I wasn't kidding when I said that Chrome OS is the bare minimum required to boot your hardware and run Chrome. That's all there is. It's the Chrome web browser. Period. Have a nice day.What a joke. I hope this thing tanks. I would so much rather run Android OS on a tablet or netbook than this garbage.  

Ghacks: "The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines."  

The recent news conference and related buzz around the Google Chrome OS really got me thinking about if the industry is ready for another OS especially after reading this eweek.com piece: As the world prepares for the release of Google's...  

Something&rsquos up with Google&rsquos Chrome operating system. Don&rsquot know what but we&rsquoll all know soon as a press conference begins at 10AM Pacific. I&rsquom coming at your live from the Googleplex. Buckle up and we&rsquoll see what&rsquos happening. ....Continue reading »Join the conversation about this story »  

Google unveiled more details about their Chrome OS this week. Google also release the source code as open source and if you have time and skills you can actually run Chrome OS now. Tweaktown did just that and published this hands-on review. Quote fro...  

Google gave us a good first look at its Chrome operating system today. It has some interesting features, but is far from finished - the first devices using it are still a year away. Google’s ambitions for Chrome also seem modest at present - it will run on low-specification netbooks. But everyone seemed to have low [...]