Fancy trying the new OS that Google is working on? Well you’re out of luck but in the meantime you can try the Chrome OS that for some bizarre reason Suse has made and released on a Google hosted site http://sites.google.com/site/chromeoslinux/ (Google has taken the site down). What’s really funny is the amount of people that have been Tweeting about how either this is Google’s new OS or the rest that are calling it a fake. It’s not a fake as it really is an OS called Chrome OS it’s just people have been fooled by the sites design and hosting in to believing it is Google’s OS.
From the site:
2009-10-21: New Chrome OS 0.4.223 beta is available now!
Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser.
The project aim is to provide a lightweight Linux distribution for the best web browsing experience.
Featured software in Chrome OS:
- GNOME 2.24 desktop environment
- Google Chrome 4.0.223 web browser
- Google Picasa 2.7 photo manager New!
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite
- GIMP 2.6 image editor
- Flash Player 10.0 plugin
- and much more!
System requirements of Chrome OS:
- Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon or newer; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
- RAM: min. 256 MB
- Hard disk: min. 1 GB
- Graphics card: supports most modern graphics cards
Why they would try to make people believe this was Googles forthcoming OS I don’t know.
i tried Chrome OS and it is pretty much like a scaled down version of Ubuntu. Chrome is just based on Linux and there is nothing new about it.
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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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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. x
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i have tested chrome os both at home and at work, it does not seem to be better than ubuntu,-.
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