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Google Chrome OS Open Source Project Announcement

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. http://www.chromium.org

During the Q&A I found that people really didn't understand what ChromOS is and the differences between it and the Chrome Browser. Firstly everything on the system is a web application so you should be able to use the web application from any browser. People just need to think of it as an OS that is just the browser. This means you never install applications, everything is stored remotely and nowadays that's fine seeing as we spend most of our time in a browser connected to the internet.

I'm glad Google behind the rather bold move to really push the envelope of what web applications can do and open new doors for creativity. I do see how this will help them though, but Google are a business and they want to make money, but this is still great news for the opensource community.

I personally would love an eclipse web application as I use that as my primary IDE for programming and if it could automatically save my code in the cloud that would be great! I see there being some problems with the OS like storing music collection and syncing them with a device. Am I going to have to download my whole music library from the internet every time I get a new mp3 player? What about uploading my music library online? Is that going to cause problems with piracy and such? Bandwidth cap? That's just one item that really jumped out at me that had a lot of questions around it.

Overall I'm excited about this new OS and I will test it out and probably do a tutorial on how to build the code yourself over Christmas break, but for as mentioned in the video they don't really see it as being your primary OS so I'll be sticking with the more conventional OS model for now.

Please post a comment on what you think about the OS?, where you'd like to see it go? and whatever else you have on your mind.

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