Google Chrome OS (well, Chromium OS)
by James on Nov.20, 2009, under Software
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?
December 23rd, 2009 on 8:46 am
I have installed Chrome OS on one of my netbooks and the performance of Chrome OS is just okay. there is nothing fancy or very special about it. It was just a sort of GUI version of linux or something.
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February 3rd, 2010 on 12:50 pm
i installed Chrome OS on two of my netbooks. the Chrome OS works great and its loading time is very fast too.