It is, in my opinion, a very exciting project. If not the most exciting. I'm talking about Chrome OS, the operating system from the search engine giant Google . Now, the big G, the OS is first presented . At first glance, it looks no different than a simple browser. However, hiding behind it more?

Google suggests a Chrome OS a whole new way than the conventional ones. The OS is built entirely on the online world and its applications. Then your data is not stored on your computer and the local hard drive, but online. Also, applications can not be downloaded and run offline, so to speak, but must all be available online. Google Chrome does the job by managing the various applications and user data (login information, etc.) providing the services.

The operating system is built on a Linux kernel. So far, therefore, in principle, nothing other than a Ubuntu or SuSE. You might think. From the outside, but you can see no resemblance to the popular Linux distributions. Runs is the OS on x86 CPU's (would be interesting to know whether the CPU work with 64-bit extension). Particularly impressive is to be the boot time. This should amount to only a few seconds. Is, in principle, but nothing special, after all, the system starts (as described above) is a browser.

The security of the OS should not be ignored. Thus, the system runs in a sandbox and applications can not access the kernel. That's a good thing, because then the operating system will not actually tampered with. If still something "happens": When booting the system durchgeleuchtet shortly. If inconsistencies occur, Chrome OS tries to eliminate them. So "heals" itself Chrome in that it replaces the malicious code by healthy code. This brings the system from the network (who would have thought differently?).

So overall a very exciting thing. For small devices and netbooks, I can imagine the system very well. How is all this but overall developed, one can not say. Some say that Chrome OS will be the end for Apple and Microsoft, others say the opposite. And it looks like no one knows. Here's a short video about Chrome OS.

[Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw [/ youtube]

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