Google Announces Google Chrome OS as OSS

Welcome Guys, today I've very good news for you,
Google has invited much of the technology press to an event at its Mountain View, California, headquarters on Thursday morning to demonstrate Chrome OS, which it is developing for netbooks as a new type of operating system. However, those of you who speak code can get started poking around with the operating system at the Chromium project blog, as spotted by the Google Operating System blog.

Google will show off the new OS for the first time on Thursday, and for the first time people can see the the OS, In my thoughts, Google Chrome will be the best ever lightweight Linux based notebooks OS, It is fully optimized for Internet navigation, and with the great variety of Google Applications, you can login to the system with your Google Account email, you can see your Gmail inbox, upload your photos and videos usint the greatest Picasa and YouTube, write documents on Google Docs, even if you a developer, you can access your Google Code Account, and the most exciting issue here, Google Wave, the newest innovation by google.

Most people thought Google Chrome will be commercial App, I myself think it will not, although Google have all the rights to make it so, and this will be perfectly underestandable, But I hope they release it as free opensource application.

I like Google too much, I like the way they though.

Linux Hard Links vs. Symbolic Links

Today I was looking for a solution for some problem in my website,

A solution of the problem was to use upload a folder X, in each subfolder on my server, the content of the X folder is the same in all subfolders, and if the content changed in one subfolder, it should changed in all the subfolders :O , so now, I need to copy this folder in each subfolder and each new created subfolder should contain this X folder too.

Stupid Idea (was mine) was to copy the folder in each subfolder, and the process of concurrent content checking will be done manually, Imagine the situation when you have about 50 folder and each on contain this X folder, BAAAAAAAAAAAAD

another Idea there was to create the X folder in somewhere on the server, and link it in every where you need it on the server with the same name (X), here, you will ensure that any change in the main X folder will be reflected in the links.

I myself find the Idea Excellent, but the Question was, Which type of file linking?
HardLinking or SoftLinking?

I founds SoftLinking (symbolic linking) better as I can refer to any location on the disk from any other location on the disk, not only the same partition.

My Question Here:
Will the symlinks increase the time of accessing the content from the original (X) folder than accessing it from X folder in the first solution?

Still can't find the answer, but still looking for it!