GOOGLE Chrome OS

For about a week now, the buzz news has been Google Chrome. No, not the browser, Google Chrome, the operating system.
Suspesions of Google releasing operating system has existed for a long time. When it was leaked that Google was using a modified version of Ubuntu Linux, Goobuntu, the rumor mill went crazy. As it turned out, Goobuntu was for internal use only. Rats.
Then the light of a Google operating system shines once again. This time with a "cloud-based OS" called gOS. Could it be? Google OS? It was chalk full of Google applications. This had to be the messiah of operating systems. But once again, we we're duped. Google only had involvement with gOS, which apparently stood for "good OS". Oh well.
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Chrome OS Joins the Open Source Mobile Platform Party

Open source operating systems are suddenly flourishing, especially in the growing netbook and smartphone arenas. Moblin, the open source mobile platform launched by Intel and now overseen by The Linux Foundation, is making tremendous strides, and is out in a refreshed beta version 2.0. Android, Google's open source mobile operating system, is also picking up momentum, with more than 30 smartphone handsets running it expected by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Google has just announced that it will deliver Chrome OS — also open source — in 2010, aimed at the hot netbook market. And Symbian, which has almost half of the global smartphone market, has announced that it is moving into beta testing with its open source Symbian 2 OS. These operating systems are all different, and it looks like significant competition between them will lead to much innovation. Here's what to expect. […]
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