We’ve shown you how to turn your netbook into a Chromebook with Chromium OS, but if you found that your laptop’s Wi-Fi or graphics card wasn’t supported, there’s a good chance Chromium Lime — Hexxeh’s new build of Chromium OS — could work.
Windows: Splashtop, the fast-booting OS that gets you onto Wi-Fi and into Chromium ASAP, has a new beta release out that, while only designed to run on certain HP systems, can be installed by any Windows user and chosen at boot-up time.
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.
Last week we pointed you toward a virtual machine build of Chrome OS for anyone eager to play around with the (still incomplete) Chrome OS, but if you’d rather try running it from a thumb drive, weblog MakeUseOf has you covered.
If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment.
According to tech weblog TechCrunch, Google is hosting a Chrome OS event today in which they’ll provide a complete overview of the thus far top-secret operating system they announced in July.
Another week, another Google product launch rumour — but this one’s a bit more notable than most. If TechCrunch’s source is correct, the first iteration of the operating system may be available for download within a week from today — but it would be far from a plug-and-play download.
If you’ve been keeping a close eye on Chrome OS developments, you may be excited to hear that Google is hosting a Chrome OS event tomorrow, and PC World is expecting that we’ll hear concrete details about Google’s heretofore elusive operating system.
