While there’s still time for Google to officially launch its upcoming Chrome Operating System before the end of the year, time is running out. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently stated that Chrome OS was due for release in the next few months, which many bloggers took to mean that the OS wouldn’t see the light of day until early 2011 — but last time I checked, the next few months still includes next month.

Now Engadget has some more evidence though. Apparently Acer’s Jim Wong said that the company will launch a netbook running Chrome OS next year, during the “consumer launch” of Chrome OS.

That doesn’t mean that Google won’t release a public beta, or maybe even a final build of Chrome for users to download before the end of the year. But it seems like we might have to wait until early 2011 before we actually start to see netbooks and other hardware designed to run the operating system.

Chrome OS is basically a fast-booting light weight operating system designed around Google’s Chrome web browser. It’s meant to get you online nearly instantly, while most apps will be web apps. There will also be some offline functionality such as media caching for offline playback, as well as services that will let you interact with hardware such as printers.

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3 replies on “Google Chrome OS netbooks to ship in 2011”

  1. Rolling release sounds good. Update parts when those parts are stable and it doesn’t affect anything else.
    I hope one day that Ubuntu will not be dependant on Debian. I get a feeling that Debian will hold Ubuntu back. I have no technical evidence for this though.

  2. I would love to see Ubuntu moving to a rolling release, but the main question is what the base for such rolling release would be – Debian testing? unstable (doubt it)? or would Ubuntu actually fork from Debian and start maintaining their own code base?

    Linux Mint has recently put out a rolling release based on Debian testing (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1527), and it’s pretty great and stable right now, but I’m looking forward to seeing how they deal with new packages once the Squeeze package freeze is lifted. Could be a sign of things to come for Ubuntu, as well…

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