Yes, it's Google without all the tracking. This way you can use the same thing without worrying about your privacy.
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Yes, it's Google without all the tracking. This way you can use the same thing without worrying about your privacy.
Here's a list of systems developers have tried Chromium OS on, and the results:
Developer Hardware (The Chromium Projects)
Some news:
Google Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS
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Google has made a change to Chrome OS to move the user login from the machine to the browser. Our guess is Google is, or will eventually use, Google Friend Connect to facilitate login.
The feature was first mentioned on October 13: "Using Chrome as our login manager has a number of potential benefits.
Explore these tradeoffs and decide what to do about the login manager." The code was checked in on December 14: "An early version of this change is finally in. It's not ready for daily use yet, and we haven't gotten the network picker on there or anything yet, but at least we've got a baseline in there. I'm filing issues for the follow-on work."
ChromiumOS Cherry - Carry And Use Google Chrome OS From Your USB Disk
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Wanna give Google Chrome OS a try here is a nice option to install the OS on your USB pen-drive without the hassle of compiling your own distro from source-code, thanks to ChromiumOS Cherry you can now download a pre-compiled build of Google Chrome OS ready to install on your USB pendrive and boot directly into Chrome OS on any machine capable of booting from USB.
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The Pilot Program is underway...Quote:
Chrome OS
Last year, we announced our effort to design an operating system that is built and optimized for the web. Many people already spend all their time in a web browser, and by building an operating system that is essentially a browser, we can make computers faster, much simpler and fundamentally more secure.
We’re not done yet, but Chrome OS is at the stage where we need feedback from real users. Some of the features of Chrome OS require new hardware, but we didn’t want to sell pre-beta computers. Instead we’re launching a pilot program where we will give test notebooks to qualified users, developers, schools and businesses. We're starting with the U.S. and will expand to other countries once we get the necessary certifications. To participate in the pilot program, visit the Chrome notebook website.
The test notebooks exist only to test the software—they are black, have no branding, no logos, no stickers, nothing. They do have 12.1 inch screens, full-sized keyboards and touch pads, integrated 3G from Verizon, eight hours of battery life and eight days of standby time. Chrome notebooks are designed to reach the web instantly, are easy to share among friends and family, and simply by logging in, all of your apps, bookmarks and other browser settings are there. Setting up a new machine takes less than a minute. And even at this early stage, we feel there is no consumer or business operating system that is more secure.
In the first half of next year Chrome notebooks will be available for sale from Acer and Samsung. More manufacturers will follow. Also, Chrome OS is designed to work across a wide range of screen sizes and form factors, enabling our partners to deliver computing devices beyond notebooks.
We’re excited to get Chrome notebooks into the hands of users. The data from our test pilots is key to building something wonderful. We look forward to working together to make computers better.
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