Yesterday Google officially announced Chrome OS, an operating system targetted netbooks (both intel x86 & arm-based). Chrome OS will be built on the linux kernel. Google will reimplement the security architecture of Linux. A new minimal graphical interface will provide an easy to use interface. As google says it: “it should just work”.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Here’s the full announcement. You want screenshots don’t you?

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