Good OS, the California-based company who is most famous for the gOS, a Linux distribution that debuted last year on the $199 Everex gPC selling at Wal-Mart, announced another operating system called Cloud on Monday at the Netbook World Summit in Paris.

Different from other quick-start software that allows users to check mail or play music almost instantly after turning on their computers, Good OS has created “a wrapper that enables you to perform all your major rich-client applications from within the browser,” according to David Liu, Good OS founder and CEO.

Cloud is really a true browser-based operating system which boots into a browser instead a “desktop”.

At first sign, the browser looks suspiciously similar to Google’s Chrome, though no official connection between Google and gOS exists. There is an OS X-like dock at bottom of browser providing quick access to a number of applications like Meebo, YouTube, and some popular Google’s apps. Interestingly, users can also boot to Windows from the dock.

In fact, Cloud OS is a stripped down Linux distro (Ubuntu based) so users can load other apps such as Skype, Media Player and the OS can be installed alongside Windows or another Linux distribution.

Cloud’s footprint is very small, a tiny 35MB. It can boot from a thumb drive or CD and “does not require additional hardware and is compatible with any operating system,” according to company web site.