{"id":75,"date":"2009-07-10T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/google-chrome-os\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:07:00","slug":"google_chrome_os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/google_chrome_os\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p>In my last blog post I outlined a design concept for a &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/graphical_shell_for_the_web\">graphical shell for the web<\/a>&quot;, a replacement for a desktop environment for devices dedicated to browsing the web. On Tuesday Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/introducing-google-chrome-os.html\">announced<\/a>\u00a0 the &quot;Google Chrome OS&quot; project which appears to be an implementation of a very similar idea. <\/p>\n<p>Google says that Chrome OS will be &quot;an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks&quot; and is their attempt to &quot;re-think what operating systems should be&quot;, with a focus on &quot;speed, simplicity and security&quot;. Chrome OS will essentially be Google Chrome running on a Linux kernel. <\/p>\n<p>After the announcement several people contacted me with messages along the lines of &quot;have you heard about this? It sounds like what you&#39;ve been banging on about for years!&quot;. I agree, and I think this is a significant development in the transition from applications installed on a desktop PC to services provided over the web. <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m eager to see what the Chrome OS user interface will look like, the blog post mentions a new windowing system and I hope the UI doesn&#39;t resemble a desktop environment. Ideally it would be as simple as possible with only the minimal user interface elements required for browsing the web and operating the host device.<\/p>\n<p>I think that devices based on this OS will have a range of benefits over the traditional Personal Computer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Reliability &#8211; Solid state devices like netbooks and nettops have no moving parts and with a solid Linux-based OS could be exceptionally reliable.<\/li>\n<li> Maintenance -With a significantly reduced complexity on the client-side software stack and potentially automatic updates, maintenance will be greatly reduced. <\/li>\n<li> Security &#8211; With a new security model and a UI designed only for using the web, the risk of malicious software or malicious unauthorised use could be greatly reduced. <\/li>\n<li> Environmental impact &#8211; Netbook and nettop computers tend to have a much lower power consumption than traditional PCs. The power usage of computing shifts to the &quot;cloud&quot;, with a focus on efficiency and the use of renewable energy in centralised data centres. <\/li>\n<li> Cost &#8211; Low cost hardware, no software license costs and low power consumption, with no vendor lock-in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look forward to hearing more about the Google Chrome OS and the devices it will run on. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last blog post I outlined a design concept for a &quot;graphical shell for the web&quot;, a replacement for a desktop environment for devices dedicated to browsing the web. On Tuesday Google announced\u00a0 the &quot;Google Chrome OS&quot; project which appears to be an implementation of a very similar idea. Google says that Chrome OS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/google_chrome_os\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Chrome OS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}