Meet Cloud - A new small Operating System that is browser based for cloud computing: http://www.thinkgos.com/
Available for free for download it is about 679mb will fit and run on a DVD.
Yesterday at the Netbook World Summit in Paris, France, it was announced that gOS would be available on Gigabyte Touch Netbooks: http://officialgosblog.blogspot.com/.
Netbooks according to Gartner could reach up to 50 million units by 2010.
Cloud, for now, will ship with Windows and you switch to Cloud or toggle back and forth. It is integrated with a compressed Linux operating system kernel based on Ubuntu Linux.
With its low cost operating system and integration with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Apps cool, sleek Netbook hardware, you could be seeing alot of these showing up as end user laptop replacements next year.
See the new gOS 3 Gaget Applications - that will ship with netbooks and netTops.
Desinformado has a new review: http://www.desinformado.com/index.php/2008/12/02/new-gos-cloud-operating-system-installation-features-and-more/
I have not had the chance to test drive the new gOS as of yet but I hope for end users that at least the OS firewall comes enabled by default and there is an antivirus or malware detection bulit-in that has profiled how the OS, Applications, and Gadgets are supposed to work. If this becomes as end user popular as OSX or XP/Vista, I am sure that it will come under heavy bombardment. With that I hope that the OS and application engineers will have this in mind so there is no mass worldwide worm attacks that we have seen with the other Network Operating Systems that have been introduced to the internet computing in the last decade. What do you do when the sky is filled with rain clouds? Bring an umbrella, and a trench coat and hope the wind does not kick up too much.
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