I'm sure everybody's heard the news that Google is working on their own "operating system", which they're calling "Google Chrome OS".
They're making a lot of grand claims, such as (emphasis mine):
[A]s 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.
Which sounds great. All current operating systems have their roots back in the days when the internet wasn't even a glimmer in Tim Berners-Lee's eye, and we could use a fresh start. For example, I like what Microsoft have been doing with Singularity in that respect. But then, in the very next paragraph, you have this:
The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
Now, Chrome the browser was little more than a different skin on top of WebKit, and nowit seems that Chrome the OS is going to be little more than a different skin on top of Linux. Are they really just saying they're going to be releasing nothing more than Yet Another Linux DistoTM? Maybe with Gnome replaced with something from Google?
That would be a major dissappointment.