Google: Canonical contributes to the development of Chrome OS
In a post on the official blog of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, vice president of OEM services Chris Kenyon has published several interesting information. We learn such as Canonical and Google are bound by contract to work on the operating system OS chrome.
The famous Linux distribution Ubuntu OS and Chrome are therefore common. Chris Kenyon said the goal was clearly not reinvent the wheel, and the open source development focuses more on cooperation than competition. Well, we will not hold a conference on the subject, but there is cooperation between the two companies in software engineering done in Chrome OS.
In a stated goal of transparency and Canonical announced that it supplies components to Google’s system. Of course, these components are not those of Ubuntu in the state, because Chrome OS is significantly altered and has a special operation. Chris Kenyon also points indicating that Ubuntu keeps its traditional operating system to do everything, of course taking care of standard applications, while Chrome OS focuses entirely on Web applications.
It is especially a ground on which Ubuntu can greatly help Google and is one of the pilots. The firm removes Mountain View is part of the equation by focusing on some netbooks especially since the precise conditions necessary to market a machine with Chrome OS. But if Canonical provides at least part of the pilot, Google will devote his time to refine its operating system.
During 2010, we will then as usual two new versions of Ubuntu, of 10.04 in April, then 10.10 In October, putting forward progressive Software Center. But in the same period about Ubuntu 10.10, Chrome OS should make his big entrance on the market.
