Instead, Google is partnering with original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs) including Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Intel to manufacture hardware devices capable of using the OS. The end user is not able to refuse a security update or change back to a previous version.Ĭhrome OS is not available for download. Both the Chrome OS and browser share an auto-update feature that allows Google to push updates by using secure sockets layer ( SSL). The only software application Google Chrome OS runs locally is Google’s browser, which is also called Chrome. The operating system is built on top of a Linux kernel and runs on Intel x86 and ARM chips. Google released the source code for Chrome OS in July 2009 under the BSD license as part of a larger project called Chromium.
The Chrome OS is so lean that boot time is about seven seconds.
It uses one-sixtieth as much hard drive space as Windows 7 and is intended for netbooks or tablet PCs that access Web-based applications and stored data from remote servers. Google Chrome OS is an open source lightweight operating system ( OS).
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