Apple also decided to make a linux distro which happens to be very good. If it wasn't for OSX, then Ubuntu would be far more popular than it is today. The aut

Apple also decided to make a linux distro which happens to be very good. If it wasn't for OSX, then Ubuntu would be far more popular than it is today. The author is thinking that perhaps Chrome OS will do more of the same thing (take away market share from Ubuntu). I personally think that there is a lot more to a computer than a web browser, so maybe Chrome OS will be mostly competing with Windows in the Netbooks market - since linux has mostly lost a lot of ground in that area.