Last month we reported here about Splashtop, which starts a laptop in just a few seconds. Since then Splashtop has reportedly found its way into the Lenovo IdeaPad S10e and the Asus Eee PC.
Now there's "Cloud", from Good OS, which gave us gOS Linux and a cover story in Linux Journal last year. Good OS calls Cloud "A New Operating System for 2009". More specifically, the press release says Cloud "integrates a web browser with a compressed Linux operating system kernel for immediate access to Internet, integration of browser and rich client applications, and full control of the computer from inside the browser".
The browser looks like Google's Chrome, and most of icons in the Mac-like dock on the bottom of the screen are for Google apps running in "the cloud". One exception: the Windows symbol. We won't go there. Meanwhile the fast-start race all goes to Linux.Cloud launched in December at Netbook World Summit in Paris, demonstrated on a GIGABYTE Netbook.
- Doc Searls