Chrome OS Beta is out!
 

You can test it on your machine using VirtualBox

Learn how in this tutorial:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19...gle-chrome-os/

It's going to be a great OS for NetBooks, loads pretty fast and it's open source!

Over all the OS looks nice and works fine so far, but some how i don's see myself
using it for something other then having fun, and the other thing is i don't trust
the bi'G' brother to have all my data on their servers easily accessible to anyone
that can hack my google account!

I like XP on my shitty little netbook. I can't imagine needing/wanting anything else.

It's just another Linux distributive - one of 100's. So relax :)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANMrzw7JFzA

looks good.... downloading it right now...

gots it giving it a shot

that's not an os, that's a browser.

It's already out ?.. this guys are fast...

The OS is basically a browser with a kernel. So instead of loading up programs to a drive you are using cloud computing. In other words your email is Gmail or webmail.aol.com instead of a stand alone program.

Your solitaire is not a stand alone app in the programs directory of your computer that happens to be linked into your games menu. It is a URL to a flash version of solitaire on your own choice of provider.

What is it meant for? It is meant for people that have a tiny computer that makes a laptop look like a super computer. A simple yet to be created device you can buy for $200 and it allows you to connect to the net from start up to typing in seconds. It won't need a big battery because it isn't always on. Android will handle phones. This is for something entirely different.

Do we really need it though? Probably not.

This seems like somebodies baby at Google and that person might be a founder because this thing has been going on for far too long. Android is where they should be going. Chrome OS is like creating Win3.1 AFTER you have made Win 7...

I like OpenSUSE on my little eee. KDE 3.5 is perfect on that teeny little screeny. 4.3 is a little more elegant now, and stable, but dunno if I give a crap.

Running it in a virtual environment is a joke. It is obviously slower because of the virtual layer... as for screen resolution.. wow... lame...