A USB drive containing a customized Linux distro will boot users into a Google branded environment, or so one web site claims. The next experiment out of Google Labs or merely wishful thinking from the anti-Microsoft crowd?
The Inquirer reckons people should be skeptical of the claims made on a Chinese web site, a murdok also provided coverage of the so-called "Google OS").
It's not an unprecedented concept. Realm Systems recently unveiled a USB drive containing a Linux server, complete with fingerprint identification. The ThinkFree, which makes an online application suite capable of saving documents in Microsoft formats. a browser.
At one point when Netscape was the top browser, it was thought to be the gateway to commoditizing the desktop and making the underlying operating system irrelevant to the way people would work on a computer. Microsoft crushed Netscape out of existence and nearly got broken up by a federal court for doing so. Maybe Google could avoid that fate.
David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business. Email him
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