Google has just announced their new operating system Chrome OS. The operating system that is a browser built on an operating system, or something ridiculous along those lines. Google even is allowing for the community of developers to actually contribute to the source code before the official release of the operating system, which is due out sometime next year.
What it is not...
Chrome OS is not going to be an operating system for the power user, hard core gamer, or network manager. Unless things change sometime from here to the time of release, this will just be an operating system geared for the web.
Try it out
There are some easy ways to try this new operating system out without actually having to go out and buy a netbook. Here are the simple steps to test out Chrome OS via virtual machine:
- Download and install Virtualbox
- Download the Chrome OS torrent via gdgt
- Once the virtual machine has been properly downloaded, start up Virtualbox
- Create a new Virtual Machine for Chrome OS
- Continue with the step by step walk through, when you reach the screen "Virtual Hard Disk", select Use Existing Hard Drive option
- Click on the folder next to the drop down options
- Add the Chrome OS virtual machine image that was downloaded
- Continue with the following installations
- Once the virtual machine launches log into Chrome OS with your gmail username and password.
Is it a game changer?
No, this is not a game changer. This might be a game changer for netbooks, but not for laptops or the desktop (we will leave desktop domination to Ubuntu).
Conclusion
If there happens to be an extra netbook laying around Chrome OS would definitely be an operating system worth using. Google nailed it on the head about cloud computing, and this is the first step to something that will be revolutionary a few years down the road.
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