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Martin Bligh, Software Engineer for Chrome OS, released another video with information about the open source character of Chrome OS. It seems that Google colaborates with many other open source project to get Chrome OS on the way. Watch the full video here!

Will Drewry, Security Engineer for Chrome OS, explains in this video how security enhancements of Chrome OS are achieved. It is the second of four videos released along with the source code of Chrome OS. See the video and a short description here.

Raj Mallempati, VMware group product manager, confirmed that VMware will be capable of virtualizing Chrome OS as soon as it is released by Google. Due to the fact that Chrome OS is based on a linux kernel, it is most likely that many virtualization machines will support it as a guest system. This will make it a lot easier for developers to test it and gather experience with their own software on it.

Bill Gates speaks about Google Chrome OS in an interview with CNET news. For him it looks like yet another linux distribution and doesn’t scare him at all. He also compares it to the other Google OS, Android, by saying: “I mean, you’ve got Android running on Netbooks. It’s got a browser in it.” I think, he’s right in this point. Without some really cool offline features and extended functions besides a browser, Chrome OS would be nothing more than another Android. Read more of Bill Gates on Chrome OS.

Today, Google announced an operating system called Chrome OS. It is supposed to be available for customers in the second half of 2010. Like the Chrome browser, Chrome OS is designed to be be lightweight, minimalistic, fast, and simple to use. The system is targeted to run on low-preformance machines like netbooks and is based on a linux kernel and the Chrome web browser. Read more about its license, software, hardware and cloud computing.