James Slater

I watched Google’s webcast yesterday where they announced a few details of their new Chrome OS.

As it’s open source, I downloaded it and built it on an Ubuntu system – which seems to be their preferred platform. The build went reasonably smoothly, but there’s not very much to see yet really. As you’d probably expect, it’s basically just the Chrome web browser and that’s it.

I booted it in VMware and made a quick video:

I couldn’t login using a Google account – the network error on the login screen is probably a clue as to why – but I’d enabled a local user account during the build process so I used that. I couldn’t really think of much to do when it had loaded though! Is there even a “shutdown” button?