Small, cheap notebooks – known as netbooks – are among the hottest products in the PC market place.
Cloud OS boots inside a browser with icons at the bottom on the screen
Good OS would also like them to become quicker to turn on. The Emeryville, CA, company that supplies the Linux operating system that debuted in computers at Wal-Mart, announced a stripped-down operating system it says boots in seconds.
The product, called “Cloud,” opens in a browser and displays icons at the bottom of a Web page much as they are displayed in the Macintosh OS from Apple. Users navigate among the icons to make Skype phone calls, access Gmail e-mail, or reach Google Docs.
The OS is to first appear in a touch-screen laptop made by Giga-byte Technology of Taiwan and distributed early next year. The laptop is to be shown off at the Netbook World Summit this week in Paris.
According to Good OS, Cloud also allows users to “switch to the main operating system (Windows or a full version of Linux) with a single click.”
