With the whole world already drooling with the upcoming Google Phone called the Nexus One, Google has announced that that there will be a Google Chrome branded netbook too.
Google has been working with many manufactures to ensure great Chrome OS experience for users. This include manufactures like Acer, Adobe, Asus, Freescale, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Rumor has it that it will be running on ARM processor and if that rumors turns out to be true, we will be having a pretty powerful WEB device with awesome battery life
Release date is however, no where near: next year’s Christmas
Meet the Omni present browser: Opera. Opera’s chief standards office believes that Opera may be able to offer Opera web browser for the Chrome OS next year.
Porting it to Chrome OS is not the most difficult task, but how to get it installed in Chrome OS is since Chrome OS does not let any third party manufacture to run any app in Chrome OS.
According to the latest news bits, some of the anti virus companies are in the making of developing anti-virus apps for the Chrome OS. It is not an unknown fact that the Chrome OS is itself a very closed OS and adding apps is currently, impossible.
So, the anti-virus app, if by chance is unveiled for the Chrome OS, will have to be installed as an extension.
Google Chrome OS aka Chromium OS has been getting a lot of great reviews from all over the net. Many of them are saying that it will rival the Microsoft Windows 7 Starter which is being bundled with most of the netbooks these days.
Google Chrome OS directly takes you to the web browser immediately when logged in. Since the only application that runs on it is a web-browser, it runs at an amazing speed on netbooks which do not sport very powerful processors like Macbook Pro or the high end Dell XPS gaming rigs. In our tests, it took us to the web-browser almost instantaneously after logging-in with out Gmail account.
Given the ability to pin tabs, the Chrome OS’s browser makes sure that the tabs stay pinned in the same location forever. Currently, there is no way to install apps on it, but we are sure that Google will introduce equivalent web apps
ChromiumOS64 is the new Chrome OS project that promises to make the chrome OS for the 64-bit CPUs. The ChromiumOS64 also features Xen hypervisor.
It also allows the users to the run virtual machines on Linux as-well-as Windows-powered machines.
Download size is mere 1GB. Note that it is a pre-alpha release
ChromiumOS64 is an unofficial port of the original Google’s Chromium OS project (when officially released in 2010, it will be called Google Chrome OS) to the x86_64 64-bit architecture. The original Chromium OS project does not support 64-bit platforms. This is because the majority of the netbooks in the market are based on Intel Atom processors, which are mostly 32-bit. It is highly anticipated that Google’s Chrome OS will debut in 2010, based on the open source Chromium OS project, which is itself based on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala GNU/Linux. Ubuntu itself is derived from Debian GNU/Linux. In turn, Debian itself is derived from Linus Torvalds’ Linux kernel.
According to Acer’s chairman, JT Wang, Acer will be the first netbook vendor to unleash Chrome OS netbook.
This is a great news for the Chrome OS community as Acer is one powerful player in the netbook market. In fact, it is number one when it comes to netbook sales.
Also in the news is Android Aspire D250 netbook from Acer whose sales have been disappoting so far. This must have forced the Acer to with the Chrome OS rather than Phone-centric Android OS
Earlier we mentioned about how to run Google Chrome OS from a USB flash drive. In that process, one required at least 8GB flash drive. Now, not everyone has a 8GB flash drive. So, here is a leaner version of Google Chrome OS that fits in a 1GB flash drive! Great for the netboosk that have limited storage
The great google community has come forward and have enlisted the netbooks that have been able to run the Chrome OS. Note that not all the features currently work.
Techguru team have made a video of Chrome OS running on ASUS T91. Although the official launch of Chrome OS is not going to be anywhere before the end of next year, we are now sure that it works very well on touchscreens. Shown in the video is a convertible netbook by ASUS, which has an 8.9-inch display and sports 1024×600 resolution.
