PC World reports:
Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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From the official Google Blog.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Google Chrome development builds are available for Linux and MacOS. I’ve used the Linux build and it’s coming along quite well. I ran Chrome on Ubuntu all day today and found it quite capable, but still very rough around the edges. Many of the configuration utilities are unfinished and plugin capabilities like flash are missing. I’m looking forward to having a real alternative to Firefox on Ubuntu. While there are other webkit alternative browsers like Midori and WebKitGtk there are none with as many development resources as Google.