As you might know, Google has recently introduced their new operating system: Chrome OS. This OS focuses on netbooks and later on it is going to focus on all personal computers.

What do we know about Chrome OS now?

• It’s Open source (similar as Android).
• It’s an OS for x86 and ARM platform.
• It’s based on Linux kernel.
• It’ll provide development support for develepors (SDK, library) similar as Android provides.

What do we not know yet about Chrome OS?

The most important question for me is: ill there be native offline applications? Will they be written in, for example, Java?

My opinion

I have a G1 phone with Android OS and it supports an interesting combination of online and offline apps.  If Google Chrome OS is built in the similar way (i.e. Linux kernel and Java layer on top of it) as Android OS and Google provides developers with development tools, library and documentation, it may be a successful achievement. Chrome looks like a very promising OS for the ARM platform such as Nvidia Tegra where Microsoft is not able to offer an OS now. If Idea Market is used as the channel for distribution of free and paid applications, this could work. As a result, this may be the first really successful Linux desktop. Good for normal users.

And what about geeks? Thes can always find a way how to get behind an OS.

Anyway, I have my fingers crossed for Google developers.