Google Chrome OS is a
Linux operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web
applications. It is intended to focus on Web applications while running a fast
and simple interface, based off Google's existing Chrome browser. Google
announced the operating system on July 7, 2009 and made it an open source
project, called Chromium OS, that November.
Unlike Chromium OS,
which can be compiled from the downloaded source code, Chrome OS will only ship
on specific hardware from Google's manufacturing partners. The user interface takes a minimalist
approach, resembling that of the Chrome web browser. Because Google Chrome OS
is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Internet, the
only application on the device will be a browser incorporating a media player.
Google Chrome OS is
initially intended for secondary devices like netbooks, not as a user's primary
PC, and will run on hardware incorporating an x86 or ARM-based processor.
Chrome OS as a "hardened" operating system featuring auto-updating
and sandbox features that will reduce malware exposure. Google claimed that
Chrome OS would be the most secure consumer operating system due in part to a
verified boot capability, in which the initial boot code, stored in read-only
memory, checks for system compromises.
Companies working
with Google to develop hardware for the operating system include Acer, Adobe,
Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Toshiba,
Intel, Samsung, and Dell.
This Seminar on
“Google Chrome Operating System” discusses the features, capabilities and
functioning of the Google Chrome Operating System, along with its divergence
from a typical Operating System covering its expected advantages and
setbacks.
The new operating system, aptly named
Google Chrome OS, will be a Linux-based, open-source operating system initially
geared toward netbooks. The Chrome OS, originally planned for release in the
second half of 2010 and currently slated for release in early 2011, is mostly
just the Chrome browser running on top of a very lightweight Linux base. It is intended to focus on Web applications
while running a fast and simple interface, based off Google's existing Chrome
browser. Speed, simplicity and security
are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.
Quite suitably, this Seminar involves
major discussions on how it is a concept for a very portable and low cost
"cloud" terminal. This also
explains how and why the operating system is the browser and how it behaves
like a browser, in the case of this unique Operating System.
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