Want To Impress Your Friends? Run Chrome OS
We have all read the news that Google is planning to enter the operating system market with their soon to be released Google Chrome OS which is initially targeting the netbook market. Google Chrome OS is based on Google's web browser Google Chrome and a Linux kernel. Little information are know as of yet. The ones that are available state that Google Chrome OS will be released as Open Source, that it will use a minimalistic design and that it will likely be released in the second half of 2010.
Fake videos showcasing the new Google Chrome OS have been making their rounds on the Internet in the last months. There have not been on the other hand lots of attempts to turn an existing Linux distribution into something that resembles the Google Chrome OS.
Chrome OS is one of the first attempts. It is offered as a Live CD and virtual image currently. Chrome OS uses a GNOME 2.24 desktop environment with the Google Chrome 4.0.207 web browser integrated. Several other programs like Open Office or Flash Player have also been integrated into the distribution.
To be 100% clear here. This is a custom Linux distribution and not the official Google Chrome OS. It still resembles the operating system and can be used as a Live CD to run the Google Chrome web browser on Linux. Interested users can download the Live CD or the virtual image from the Chrome OS Linux website.
Update: The official Chromium OS has been released in the meantime. You find all sorts of information -- videos, documentation, source code and developer docs -- on the project website.
The operating system was released on November 19, 2009 to the public, and has evolved ever since. Several popular devices have been released in the meantime running Chrome OS, and while it is fairly limited in terms of what you can do with it -- as you need Internet connection for most things -- it may be an excellent low-budget choice for many.
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I would LOVE to test it but it says it’s disabled. Can someone send it to my email @ boiling.ben83@gmail.com?
so, it’s just a skinned Suse with a couple of extra bugs?
i was going to argue that this wasn’t a fake as it’s on a google server but infact it is a google hosted site and smacks of somebody playing around.
The iso is a modified Suse build with Chrome instead of Firefox and not much else.
Also it didn’t work very well in that Opensuse live cds usually work out of the box on my work pc but this didnt find network drivers and chrome actually crashed
Its a fake, tested it last week.
cheers martin downloading now