Google releases Chrome OS source code

[keypees2005]

At an event today, Google showed off the browser-based operating system for the first time since announcing it in July. Chrome OS won't be available for consumers to purchase for about a year, although developers can get started playing around with the source code as of today, thanks to the open-source release of the code.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10401524-265.html

Chrome OS screenshots:


The upper-left corner has an applications menu with links to a variety of Web applications. Those applications can be permanently lodged as narrow tabs between that menu and ordinary browser tabs.




Chrome OS, like Chrome, devotes almost all its real estate to the contents of the browser window. That leaves maximum room for Web applications such as Google's search site.

Source: CNET

[Murphy]

Hi
Thanks for the info .
,,The Official Google Blog ,,
Best regards !

[noaccount]

People,
I have already tried it,
See
http://forum.raymond.cc/linux/15817-want-to-try-chrome-os-download-vmtk-or-vdi-image.html

PS - If you want to try it i suggest you use VMDK not VDI.
For login use your Google ID (or even better, a Google ID).

[Murphy]

People,
I have already tried it,
See
http://forum.raymond.cc/linux/15817-want-to-try-chrome-os-download-vmtk-or-vdi-image.html

Hi,
I know .... I know .... my friend .
Best regards !

[blackrose]

When the OS will be released, any idea?

[keypees2005]

When the OS will be released, any idea?

Chrome OS won't be available for consumers for about a year

[kavinraja]

Great news that it has released source code...

Long live the open source community...

[noaccount]

i was not very impressed... and i'm a compulsive user of Google services... i wonder if they plan to ban desktop apps for real? it is not going to work...

[keypees2005]

Caesar Sengupta, a group product manager at Google, said in an interview that, "The browser is the operating system. We've expanded the browser to add operating system functionality."
"Right now, on your conventional operating system, any kind of process can run, which makes it difficult to predict what any process will do," Sengupta said. "On Chrome, because the whole operating system is essentially signed by Google, there is a lot we can do to make it secure."

Read on
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10403664-245.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

[safeguy]

I'm not influenced by any of this 'hype'...I still prefer to use "offline" OS with 'real desktop' apps...so it's either Windows or Linux for me. ...or even Mac.