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Joel bookmarked on 2008-12-02 Google OS
  • Google has long been rumored to be working on an operating system to compete
    with Microsoft’s Windows. When they launched their browser product, Chrome, in
    September, we
    noted
    that it essentially was Google’s operating system — a UI for
    the OS that the web is becoming. “If the web is the operating system of the
    future, as
  • Now, tiny Emeryville, California-based Good OS, has taken the browser-as-OS idea
    a bit further with the announcement of their latest operating system, dubbed “Cloud.” Good OS is most famous for
    the gOS, a Linux distribution that debuted last year on the Everex gPC, a $199
    computer sold at Wal-Mart. gOS is a slimmed down version of Linux that is made
    to specifically play nice with web applications and web-centric apps like Google
    Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Skype, YouTube, and Firefox

This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 02 Dec 2008, by Joel Liu.

  • 03 Dec 08
  • 02 Dec 08
    • Google has long been rumored to be working on an operating system to compete
      with Microsoft’s Windows. When they launched their browser product, Chrome, in
      September, we
      noted
      that it essentially was Google’s operating system — a UI for
      the OS that the web is becoming. “If the web is the operating system of the
      future, as
    • Now, tiny Emeryville, California-based Good OS, has taken the browser-as-OS idea
      a bit further with the announcement of their latest operating system, dubbed “Cloud.” Good OS is most famous for
      the gOS, a Linux distribution that debuted last year on the Everex gPC, a $199
      computer sold at Wal-Mart. gOS is a slimmed down version of Linux that is made
      to specifically play nice with web applications and web-centric apps like Google
      Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Skype, YouTube, and Firefox
  • 01 Dec 08