Here’s the thing: You can’t get an official version of Chrome OS without buying a Chromebook. Before purchasing a Chromebook, you may wish to experiment with Chrome OS in a virtual machine in a window on your desktop. But one thing Chrome OS certainly isn't yet is ready for any kind of final verdict.Google’s Chromebook runs Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on Linux that offers you a complete Chrome browser and the main desktop experience. I'm enjoying playing with it, and I'm going to be very interested in seeing how it works out in the long run.
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Since Chrome OS is built on an Ubuntu foundation and uses the Chrome browser for its desktop interface, it looks and feels more mature than it actually is. Put it all together and you have a fascinating operating system, which is still at a very early stage of development. If you're a techie, you can certainly run Chrome OS, but for the vast majority of users, their first hands-on experience of Chrome OS will be on a laptop that comes with it pre-installed sometime in the fall of 2010. Instead, the plan is for numerous vendors to sell users laptop and other computing devices with SSD (solid-state drives) with Chrome OS already installed. Either way, it works well.Īlthough power users will be able to run Chrome OS in virtual machines, and hardcore Linux users can build their own version of Chrome OS from the source code, Google has no plans to market do-it-yourself Chrome OS.
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For those who haven't done that kind of thing before, there's a decent guide on how to compile and build Chrome OS using Ubuntu.
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You can also compile Google OS from the source code. We did that in our review of the Chrome OS alpha release. Yes, even now you can run Chrome OS on VirtualBox or other virtualization programs. This is another question with a yes and no answer. Before Chrome devices start shipping, Google has to come up with a better answer. On the other hand, it's also stuck with a login/password system and all its inherent problems, such as that login/password on any Chrome device will let any hacker access all your data.Īs I read over Google's Chrome OS security documentation, I sometimes feel that Google is building a beautiful bank vault with a cheap combination lock in the front. Yes, Chrome OS takes radical steps to make sure that it's more secure than any other desktop operating system. Chrome OS is an Internet-based operating system only the bare minimum of applications will actually live on Chrome OS computers.
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Remember what I just said about Chrome OS not being a replacement for a full desktop? This design decision is one of the reasons I say that.Ĭould Chrome OS be made into a complete PC-centric Linux desktop? Sure. While Google hasn't quite ruled this out completely, if you read Chrome OS's design documents, it's pretty darn clear that unless an application is already in the Linux kernel or is needed to run a Chrome device's peripherals, Google won't let it run on Chrome OS.
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You will be able to run Google Docs or even Microsoft's Office Live, but you won't be able to run OpenOffice, never mind Microsoft Office. All, and I mean all, of Chrome OS's applications are Web applications.