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This past Thursday (11.19.09) saw Google release a preview of it’s long awaited “web” OS.
Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.
Source: Google Blog
I heard Leo Laporte talking about it today (podcast is TWig) and it sounded like a really cool idea, but I’m just not sure how it’s going to really work out. If Google could perhaps have an “offline” version then I could see it gaining ground in the netbook market for sure.
To read about either Google Chrome (the browser) or Google Chrome OS you can go to chromium.org and check it out. Also let me know what you think of Google OS, is it the future of netbooks, or a non-starter?