Do You Know the Differences between Chrome OS and Chromium?
In the summer of 2009 Google has announced that it plans to release an operating system called Chrome OS at 2010. Chrome OS, a natural extension of the Chrome browser, would serves the necessity of the user that spends most of his/her time browsing the web (initially it will power small notebook). Chrome OS is simple to use and of course safe, and it will be released on public in the second half of this year.
In the autumn of last year, Google open sourced Chrome OS as Chromium OS. The Chromium OS is absolutely free and open to contributions, includes the latest code base, user interface experiments as well as designs for progressing development.
Since news of Chrome OS released out and ever since Chromium OS went open source, many people have been wondering themselves one question: What is the difference between Chromium OS and Chrome OS ? In order to answer this question Google has gave a detailed answer. This is the detailed answer:
“Google Chrome OS is to Chromium OS what Google Chrome browser is to Chromium. Chromium OS is the open source project, used primarily by developers, with code that is available for anyone to checkout, modify and build their own version with. Meanwhile, Google Chrome OS is the Google product that OEMs will ship on Netbooks next year. Specifically, Google Chrome OS will run on specially optimized hardware in order to get enhanced performance and security. Chromium OS does not auto-update (so that we do not blow away any changes you may have made to the code) while Google Chrome OS will seamlessly auto-update so that users have the latest and greatest features and fixes. Google Chrome OS will be supported by Google and our partners, whereas Chromium OS is supported by the open source community, but they fundamentally share the same code base. Google Chrome OS also has some cool firmware features, verified boot and easy recovery, which require corresponding hardware changes and thus also don’t work in Chromium OS builds.”
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