Google Chrome OS is Linux. Not. (Here comes applinuxes?)

Sounds like the conclusion is that Chrome OS <i>is</i> Linux, but only in the strict sense - the kernel and not the distribution.

Google hypes what looks to be a Linux thin client targeting netbooks?<p>Call me back in 2010 or whenever GCOS arrives on the market, and I'll compare it to then-current Moblin and Linux distros and Microsoft Windows for the netbooks.<p>(And GCOS? Wasn't that an OS from GE? Fifty years ago?)

The big question is, will these netbooks and such running chrome os have all the linux tools available, or is this going to be a certified google world, with google package management?