Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010

Zaiff Urgulbunger writes "After years of speculation, Google has announced Google Chrome OS, which should be available mid-2010. Initially targeting netbooks, its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security — which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas! The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM architectures, uses a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. According to Google, 'For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.' Google says that this new OS is separate from Android, as the latter was designed for mobile phones and set-top boxes, whereas Chrome OS is designed 'for people who spend most of their time on the web.'" The New York Times' coverage is worth reading, and there are stories popping up all over the web.

Comments

Good luck blocking adverts

[martinmarv]

If Google are running the OS, the chances of being able to stop adverts with an Adblock-plus-like extension are slim, and even running your own local proxy or editing the hosts file might be impossible!

Re:Competition is good, baby!

[noundi]

Where the hell am I trolling on this post!? Is there one single lie in there? I don't give a flying fuck about karma, but you fuckers that mod to karma burn and mod because you don't agree are ruining Slashdot. Go back to digg.

Re:Uh huh.

[Raffaello]

... think Apple CGL+Quartz.

Only uglier... and buggier

Re:Competition is good, baby!

[Risen888]

In several years of posting on Slashdot, this is the first time I've bitched about a moderation, but get fucking real. "If you take the Linux kernel and make an OS on top of it, it's not a Linux distribution!" Tell me with a straight face that that's not the dumbest goddamn thing you've heard this week, then mod me whatever you want.