Well it was only a matter of time (a few hours) before Google released the source code for their new netbook operating system “Chrome” and hackers compiled the build and got it up and booting. You can use your logicianal magicianism skills to find some of these iso’s floating around the “tubes” I’m sure.
The running joke around google is, “how is Chrome OS different from the Chrome browser?”. The answer, it’s not. Check out the video at the end of the post and you can see that the OS is just essentially a browser that the computer boots into. In our story yesterday you saw that Google promised 7 second boot times and no local storage or programs, they’re all run from the cloud. Well you better have a runcore SSD if you want 7 second boots because it takes about 30 on an old netbook with a slow HD, but that’s to be expected.
So if you want to save yourself alot of trouble and unsupported drivers, then just download the Chrome browser and you’ll see exactly what the OS will be like. If not, go grab the source code and happy debugging!
