Google Chrome OS: A Free Alternative To Windows 7
Google has just announced the launching of a new operating system based on Google Chrome browser and Linux kernel: Google Chrome OS. It will be released under an open source license and will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips, being targeted to to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. Google Chrome OS is designed to be lightweight, fast and secure.
In the announcement published on Google Official Blog, Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director explain the scope and the key characteristics of Google Chrome OS:
“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 provide to the users a new windowing system and to the developers the possibility to create applications based on current and future web technologies. The applications are also compatible with other web browsers running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.
Google Chrome OS seems to offer many advantages to the end-users, such as a faster boot time and more flexibility in the utilization of Internet based applications.
The new operating system offered by Google is definitely a suitable and free alternative to the upcoming Microsoft Windows 7, from the point of view of the Internet usage flexibility and computer boot time performance. Google Chrome OS code will be released later this year and the first netbooks equipped with it, will be provided in the second half of 2010.
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July 8th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Wow, how can you on the basis of this anouncement conclude that it’s “definitely a suitable and free alternative to the upcoming Microsoft Windows 7″? Did you read it? As far as I understand it’s not much more than a bootable browser. So of course “the applications are also compatible with other web browsers running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems”, in fact I am running one right now in a webbrowser in windows. It’s called a website (or, to go with the hype, a web 2.0 application).
July 8th, 2009 at 5:08 am
“The new operating system offered by Google is definitely a suitable and free alternative to the upcoming Microsoft Windows 7, from the point of view of the Internet usage flexibility and computer boot time performance.” An operating system is definitely more than a bootable web browser - it has a Linux kernel, therefore it should be capable in the future to allow you to deploy standalone applications, different than the web based ones (that do not have a core which relies on a web API).
July 8th, 2009 at 5:40 am
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July 8th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Everyone, examine what you can do with Google Gears (offline apps) and modern Javascript (including the objects Javascript uses: canvas, xml http request, video and audio tag, all the other DOM objects, etc.)
There’s less and less of a need to develop for the fat client. In fact, you can transfer the fat client into Javascript. You’re “only” missing a proper development environment. Something, however, tells me that this will be resolved in the nearby future as well.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:42 am
I totally agree with you: JavaScript was and will be an useful alternative to more complex and less efficient programming languages. In fact there are already existing a lot of prototypes, for example for many web based “operating systems” made with pure JavaScript.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:54 am
[...] // After the official announcement of the upcoming Google Chrome OS was made, Google has also made public the list of the technology companies which will support this project. The hardware manufacturers that will collaborate with the Google search giant are: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and other companies. Sony, Dell, Samsung or LG, companies which uses Linux distributions for powering various models of the devices produced by them, seems to not be included in the list of Google Chrome OS project partners. (related article: Google Chrome OS: A Free Alternative To Windows 7 [...]