[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“12:53: Going into this, we know Chrome, the operating
system, is a Linux-based desktop operating system that’s designed
for primarily for netbooks.“We also know that it will use a new windowing system–sorry
KDE, GNOME–and that its primary interface will be the Chrome Web
browser. You could argue that is the first Internet-based operating
system.“Why does yet another operating system matter? Because this
time, the company that’s bringing it to the table, Google, is big
enough to give Microsoft and Windows a run for their money on the
desktop. The last time that happened was in the late 80s when OS/2
walked the earth.“1:00 Ahead of the announcement, Google has released some of the
source code at: http://src.chromium.org/”