ChromiumOS Zero

[A Guy]

ChromiumOS Zero Boots Faster, Offers Automatic Updates

Chromium OS, the open source build of Google's upcoming web-focused netbook system, was made into a thumb-drive-friendly build early on by a helpful hacker named Hexxeh. His latest build, ChromiumOS Zero, adds Chrome extension support, speed boosts, and other goodies.

Here's the official list of updates at Hexxeh's blog, with notable improvements in the delay suffered by Broadcom-based Wi-Fi and the Chromium browser at the heart of the OS. The build still fits on a 1 GB USB drive, surprisingly, can be updated in-system from this release forward, and is offered as a BitTorrent download from Hexxeh's site.

Wanna give ChromiumOS Zero a go on your own laptop from the safety of a USB stick? Check out Gina's human's guide to running Google Chrome OS, which details running a Hexxeh-based build from a thumb drive.

ChromiumOS Zero is a free download, and boots (usually) on non-Mac systems.

http://lifehacker.com/5445356/chromiumos-zero-boots-faster-offers-automatic-updates


Hexxeh releases Chromium OS Zero

Freescale just demonstrated a tablet at CES running Chrome OS, and there will no doubt be plenty of other manufacturers joining them later this year when Google finally releases their finished code. But why wait - and why shell out cash for a new device you probably don't need anyway?

Grab Hexxeh's latest build and take it for a spin right now!

The new update is called Chromium OS Zero and it boasts serious speed improvements, automatic delivery of system updates, a reduction in the startup delay on Broadcom wifi adapters, and a slick, customized bootsplash graphic. The browser now has full extension support and bookmark sync, which makes it easy to experiment.

After enabling sync and a quick trip to the Extensions Gallery to install LastPass, Zero is pretty much all I need for 90% of my daily browsing.

I haven't yet been able to boot the new version in VirtualBox, however, so you may want to stick to Cherry for now if you're planning to test drive Chromium OS in a virtual machine. You can still download Cherry via bittorrent.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01/11/hexxeh-releases-chromium-os-zero/

A Guy

[safeguy]

Thanks for the info but I don't feel like reading the entire thing....I don't plan to use ChromeOS ever...anyone here feels the same way too?

[bonishah88]

I don't plan to use ChromeOS ever

Any special reasons for that ?
P.S. I'm going to try it soon.

[hellnoire]

I'm not going to be trying any version of the Chrome OS, modified or not.

I see no reason to.

It's based off Linux and adding nothing to the development of Linux... there's no major advantage to running it, and if you're offline, then it's useless.

[safeguy]

Any special reasons for that ?
P.S. I'm going to try it soon.

My reasons are the same as hellnoire's....I don't want to use an OS that's useless when offline....I'm far better off with Windows or even Linux (or Mac)

[BTOR]

Will wait for a confirmed and a stable os

[stingray]

Just like the others mentioned won't be using Chrome OS coz it is useless offline. We will have to wait till the cloud computing becomes as quick as switching on my offline applications from the hard disk. Also the networks have to ramp up the speeds to make cloud computing really useful. Maybe then Windows, Linux & Mac would have gained a truly worthy opponent. Till then I wouldn't want to have the fastest booting machine, shutdown faster coz there is no network connection.

[Ceyfer √]

I rather ran Portable Ubuntu remix on my Windows box, unless Google will give me free netbook for their ChromeOS or ChromeOS will ran as native windows application ( parallel mode ).