It is almost 3 months since Google reveled their plans to develop an open source and cloud based operating system known as Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS mainly targets netbooks and internet enabled Smartphones. UNIX based Google Chrome OS will run on 32-bit processors and ARM CPUS, used in mobile devices. The special about Google Chrome OS is that its cloud based. In cloud environment, the user needs to be on internet to enjoy the full benefits. Information, files, applications and all other things will reside on Google servers that user needs to access online. Google Chrome OS is nearing its completion. We expect Google to provide the download links before the end of next year. However, Chromium developer community has released sources of Chromium OS that few guys manged to compile and produce unofficial Google Chrome OS images.
Run Google Chrome OS image on Windows.
We earlier shared a method to run Google Android OS on Windows with VMware and SUN VirtualBox. Similarly, here also you will need either VMware or VirtualBox to run Google Chrome OS on Windows. Use operating system choice as Linux during virtual machine creation, select to boot from exiting hard disk and add Chrome OS image location.
Download VirtualBox here
Download Chrome OS VMware image direct link.
You will need a Gmail account to sign into Google Chrome OS. As shown above the OS looks like that its attached To Google Chrome browser. Initially there’s a set of Google services and social media applications. The list will be expanded soon.
One of the problem with the cloud operating system is that the files and other user information are saved online. So there should be a dedicated and fast internet connection to access the services. But there will be sufficient amount of online storage space to store data. Those who want more can purchase additional storage from Google.
Google Chrome OS on Dell mini
Download Dell Chrome OS image.
Dell has released a Dell mini (Linux) compatible Google Chrome OS preview image. This image is almost 7.5 GB in size. Therefore you will need to flash it to an 8 GB pen drive using commands available at Dell Linux support site.
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I have tried using Chrome OS in one of my desktop PC’s, the overall performance is above average to excellent .