20Nov/093
Installing Chromium OS (Google Chrome OS)
I've taken the liberty of building and compiling the latest source tree of the chromium-os git repo.
Note to write the USB image to a usb stick use the following command:
dd if=<path_to_usb.img> of=<dev_of_your_usb_stick> bs=4M
After logging in, use CTRL+ALT+T to open a new terminal and execute:
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install
Enter the password: "wedtm" with out the enclosing quotation marks.
Enjoy!
I still haven't even tried it yet, as I was busy getting these images out, so I'll make sure to update this page with my findings.
Downloads:
Base Images (mbr.image & rootfs.image): Download
VMWare VMDK: Download
USB Stick Image: Download
December 23rd, 2009 - 00:25
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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December 23rd, 2009 - 09:28
Agreed, it seems to be nothing more on the surface than a simple version of Chrome (the browser) with some fancy addon’s. I’m sure as the development progresses, it will start taking form visually.
The real bread & butter here is the boot sequence, and Google’s addiction to reinventing the wheel, and making it better.
December 28th, 2009 - 20:06
Chrome OS is just another rebranded Linux GUI, it would be much better if Google came up with an OS that would directly compete with Windows.
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