Operating System News

Once upon a time there were two mobile operating systems called Moblin and Maemo, the former being developed by Intel and the latter by Nokia. In the beginning of 2010 the two companies decided to join forces and so MeeGo was born.

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.

Jolicloud, a new Ubuntu Linux based Internet operating system for netbooks now is officially in business. Jolicloud is described as an operating system that provides a beautiful interface, an application directory and a set of social features that make it easy and fun to use.

Moblin version 2.0 beta was released today and can be downloaded from the Moblin website. Moblin which is a blending of Mobile Linux is a Linux distro optimized for Intel Atom Processor-based mobile devices like netbooks, nettops, and MIDs.