Cloud was a browser-based operating system created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles–based corporation.
The company initially launched a Linux distribution called gOS which is heavily based on Ubuntu, now in its third incarnation.
The Cloud was a simplified operating system that ran just a web browser, providing access to a variety of web-based applications that allowed the user to perform many simple tasks without booting a full-scale operating system.
Combining a browser with a basic operating system allows the use of cloud computing, in which applications and data "live and run" on the Internet instead of the hard drive.
Early reviews compared the operating system's user interface to OS X and noted the similarity of its browser to Google Chrome, although it is actually based on a modified Mozilla Firefox browser This operating-system-related article is a stub.