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Today Google released the code for there new upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season. Google also provided an early demonstration of the web operating system, which sports a Chrome browser-like interface that features application tabs instead of web page tab and a seven second bootup time that is expected to be much faster on its release.
Under the hood, Chrome OS does a few interesting things. The entire root file system partition is read-only, and the user file system is encrypted. You shouldn’t see the user file system as a place to store files – it’s actually a cache. All user data is stored on the internet, and continuously synced. As you probably already anticipated, the operating system updates itself automatically.
Want to know the OS compatibility, someone can tell me?