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Cedar Trail supports Chromium OS

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:27:35 +0000

Good news for the Chromium fans! According to a source, the next-generation Atom, codenamed “Cedar Trail” will not only support Windows Operating system, but also Chrome OS by Google. The list does not ends there. It also supports MeeGo Linux OS, an open source OS that took birth when both Intel and Nokia went to bed. The Cedar Trail series will be unveiled in the year 2011

This means that Chromium will run without a hitch on the upcoming Intel Atom-powered netbooks. Future is surely very bright for the Chromium OS.

source: fudzilla

Confirmed – Google Bringing Flash to Chromium

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:09:06 +0000

Well, it is official now. Google has realized that Flash is the most popular web-browser plug-in and flash opens gates to wide range of apps and content on the Internet such as games, videos and enterprise apps. Google has joined hands with Adobe to improve the flash player experience in Google Chrome browser which is also the core of Chromium OS.

Google promises to bring this functionality as quickly as they can.

Google Chromium OS goes native code

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:25:04 +0000

Next year, when the Google Chrome OS will finally surface on the netbooks, it will execute native code on behalf of myriad of Google Apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

To make sure that everything runs at blistering speed, Google won’t be using any of the third party plugins for this. This means that java, Flash and Silverlight are out of equation.

According to Google, the core reason this is being done is in order to get the much required performance boost. Native Client Project is the one that is handling the native code inside Chrome’s web browser. However, it currently works only in x86 machines.

It will be interesting to see how they are able to get it ported to ARM processor as Chrome OS is meant to be run on not only x86 processors, but also on ARM processors that will be used in Smartbooks. Good news is that Google is already making a version that will be compatible with the ARM infrastructure.

Google’s new programming language called Go will also be made compatible with this native client.

source: theregister

Acer to be the first one with Chrome OS netbook

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:40:05 +0000

Acer has promised the world that it is going to be the first one among the PC manufactures to come up with a netbook running Chromium OS.

The Acer Chrome netbook is slotted to be launched in the second half, 2010. This is a great news as the Acer’s Android based Aspire D250 is not exactly selling like hot-cakes.

source: hardwarecentral

Major Change: Chrome OS now to use browser login instead of Machine login

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:02:48 +0000

In the upcoming builds of Google Chrome OS, you will be able asked to enter your username and password just when you will start running the web browser. According to the Techcrunch, the major benefit it will bring will be the synched bookmarks and settings whenever you login to any Chrome based machine.

It is also expected to use Google friend connect as one’s login.

How to run Google Chrome OS on a Macintosh

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:48:30 +0000