Google announced Chrome OS in 2009, promising the cloud-centric operating system would be available in 2010. Unfortunately, it will be next year before Chrome OS is widely available, Engadget confirmed this week. Google may release its own Chrome OS netbook next month, and there are already experimental builds available based on the Chromium OS source code. But if you don't want to wait for a finished, supported cloud-centric OS there are several you can download today. JolicloudJolicloud, based on the Chromium browser, is one of the most talked about cloud-based operating systems thus far. And considering that it's based on the same browser, it's the one that's most clearly analogous to the Chrome OS. Jolicloud supports over 700 web applications. Jolicloud was one of our top 100 web products last year. You can read more of our coverage of Jolicloud here.PeppermintPeppermint is a fork of Lubuntu that incorporates Mozilla Prism and configuration files from Linux Mint (hence the name Peppermint). The goal of Peppermint is to create an easy to use Linux-based cloud operating system. You can read our previous coverage of Peppermint here. gOS CloudgOS, an older lightweight Linux operating system vendor, launched its gOS Cloud operating system way back in 2008. Our coverage is here.
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