So Chrome OS was debuted by Google on Thursday (11/19/09).. shortly after that there were source code downloads popping up on the Internet… released by Google so that people could play with it a bit.
I downloaded the VMWare/Virtualbox archive last night and gave it a shot. Once you start the virtual machine it almost immediately asks you for a login and password to continue. This is of course your Google account user/pass. Once I entered it, it was almost just like running a chrome browser – but with a tab on the left with links to items like google docs, webmail (gmail/hotmail/etc..), a calculator and other goodies.
It was a little sketchy – crashy.. it crashed on me a couple times and you could tell something just wasn’t right with it yet – but here are the pictures to prove it can be done!
I have tried using Chrome OS in one of my desktop PC’s, the overall performance is above average to excellent |