The creators of the Linux-based gOS operating environment, Good OS, announced a pretty exciting browser-based OS called the Cloud at the Netbook World Summit in Paris on Monday. This has been made with the netbook in mind, because we all know how long it can take a Windows platform to load up on a netbook. That isn’t to say that Windows will be discarded, which it certainly won’t be, as it was revealed that gOS will ship with Windows XP, allowing the user to switch between the two as needed.
The Cloud runs with a Linux kernel and special dock integrated into a browser that looks a lot like Google Chrome, but which has no official relation to it, and can boot up in seconds rather than the minutes that Windows XP or Vista can take on some netbooks. And it isn’t just limited to the internet and email, with applications like Skype useable through the platform without having to switch to Windows.
Good OS showed off their new baby at the summit on a Gigabyte M912 touch screen, which will debut together at next month’s CES 2009 event in Las Vegas.