Digitalgenicide wrote:I,ve been reading allot of stuff about Google Chrome OS and i really don't understand the hype. the Web Browser is the OS. but why would i need that if i already have an OS with a web browser Plus a whole lot of other applications
So - Google Chrome OS is not designed for standard PCs. It's really aimed at netbooks, I think. What you have there are relatively slow machines with limited storage space and simple graphics. Google Chrome OS would excel at that.
The OS is a simple Linux kernel, very minimal Unix OS, and custom graphic system. The Chrome browser would be more like Konqueror in KDE. There, Konqueror handles web browsing
and file management.
Remember - Safari & Chrome are both based on KDE's Konqueror, via webkit.
By using a custom graphics system, instead of X Windows, you could *dramatically* increase the graphics speed and reduce the memory footprint. Apple's Quartz Compositor is prime example of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_CompositorIn fact, Chrome OS sounds an awful lot like Mac OS X, without the corresponding performance hit Apple incurs by insisting on using a Mach kernel in a BSD Unix.
Another example of this architecture would be BeOS. Although no longer in development, at the time, BeOS was one of the fastest OSes you could run. (I still miss it.)
Cheers,
Paul
P.S. You can read about some of the performance issues Mac OS X has because of this mis-match between BSD & Mach here:
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=7P.P.S. The last build of BeOS runs great under Virtual PC.