The Browser is the OS!

The title of this post is also the title of the last link I bothered to post on Del.icio.us, as I had come close to finding something that I had been searching for for years. The link was to Webconverger, a minimal Linux distro which consisted of only enough back-end to run the Firefox web-browser as a web-kiosk. Now Google plans to go one better, finally announcing that it is, in fact, working on its own long-rumoured OS which, not surprisingly, will consist of an absolutely minimal Linux core - just enough to get Google Chrome up and running.

Interestingly, Google Chrome is not yet available for Linux! - although that may now be attributable to the fact that Google is not as interested in getting Chrome to run on Linux as it is in getting Linux to run just Chrome. As the browser becomes the OS, I think we will see netbooks finally start living up to their names! Now I can hardly wait to nuke XP on my HP 2133 and replace it with the new Google Chrome OS. Watch out Microsoft! Google is hard on your heels...