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Today mobile computing expert and Web entrepreneur Sascha Pallenberg shared his netbook market trend predictions for 2010 in this video. Sascha predicts that 2010 will be the year for Linux on netbooks, he especially sees Moblin, Jolicloud and later in 2010 Chrome OS as operating systems with high potential.
Hak5 Technolust is a tech show covering topics like network security, open source, and DIY modding. In episode 615, the 1st and certainly not the last I watched, Shannon Morse, Jason Appelbaum, and Darren Kitchen cover Google Chrome OS, Google Voice SMS scripting with Java and J-Bomb, and unlocking Linux on the Zipit Z2.
About a year from now Chrome OS is expected to be ready for consumer use. Whether it will ship on netbooks as the primary operating system, as an additional instant-on OS on dual-boot systems, or even on an ad supported Google netbook remains to be seen.
Last week's release announcement of the open source Chromium OS project generated a lot of buzz on the Web. Whether Google's Chrome operating system, that is expected to be ready for consumers by the end of 2010, will be a viable alternative to existing systems or even pose a threat to Microsoft Windows is a question that won't be answered anytime soon.
Today's announcement of Google Chrome OS hit the news hard. Google is working on a new lightweight operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, that will run on x86 and ARM chips and initially be targeted at netbooks.
The key features of Chrome OS are speed, simplicity and security and there is a strong focus on Web based applications. Google plans to open source the underlying code later this year and expects netbooks running Chrome OS to be available in the 2nd half of 2010.
