Google Chrome Operating System

Google's blog announces a natural extension of the Chrome project: An Operating System for Notebooks.

"Google Chrome OS" is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year google will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and google are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year.

The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.