Chrome OS dev code only just went public , but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12, and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead. Ultimately, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 did the best, and openSUSE 11.2 also did well. But Chrome OS performance was far from spectacular. That shouldn't...
Benchmarking the very earliest publicly-available code for Google Chrome OS seems destined to only highlight the platform’s early stage of development, especially when you throw rivals such as Moblin 2.1, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Fedora 12 and openSUSE 11.2 into the mixture. Still, that’s just what Phoronix have done , and unsurprisingly the new Google netbook OS came in last position....
Underwhelmed By Chrome OS? That's Kinda the Point When Google unveiled its open source Chrome OS on Thursday, many commentators were quick to dismiss the new operating system as unimpressive and underwhelming. Citing everything from the browser interface that represents the entirety of the user experience to its limited hardware support and inability to install apps or play PC games, early critics...
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. Tech blogger Jorge Sierra details how to install Chrome OS on a bootable thumb drive so you can run it like any other live OS—like a Linux Live CD, for example. Keep...
A lot of people at the moment are immensely intrigued by Google Chrome OS. I won’t hide that I am one of them. Google promises a much needed shift in the way small computers work. Problems like software updates, backups, installation, maintenance, viruses, have plagued the world for too long: a shift is way overdue. [...]
It's not just about what Google's programmers do in terms of security that will drive Chrome OS. Google needs application developers to accept its security development framework as well.
G oogle Chrome OS , Google’s new open-source, web-based operating system has been revealed in a special event at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. It’s mission? To kill the desktop ... While there's been some releases/pictures of what to expect the Google Chrome OS interface, this is the first time the public's had a real look at just what they've been up-to with their new...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that Chrome OS and Android are likely to merge at some point, say reports. Meanwhile, we sample some of the response to Chrome OS from across the Googleverse, and try to determine whether calling the cloud-oriented, Linux-based OS & underwhelming& is a diss or a kiss....
Google co-creator Sergey Brin followed up the introduction of Chrome OS with hints that the new operating system may eventually merge with Android. While the two are currently separate in most ways, the executive suggested the two could unite simply because smartphones and notebooks increasingly share common traits. He pointed out that both have Linux at the root and WebKit for their browsing engines....
Hackers have compiled bootable images of the code released by Google's Chrome OS project. We tested out one of the images on VirtualBox, and despite the limitations of the early code, we found a flexible, extensible web browsing environment that runs well in as little as 256MB of RAM....
Will the market accept another netbook with a non-Microsoft operating system? That's the question some are asking in the wake of the release of the code behind Google's Chrome OS, which is known as the open-source Chromium OS.
Google has put up a very interesting document explaining the security features underlying its Chrome OS. The document also details the underlying guiding principles of Chrome OS' security features.
Yes, Google's Chrome OS is far from finished and many of its features don't yet work or will change as development continues, but the current release still gives us a look at Google's personal computing vision.
Jolicloud, an upcoming Web-centric operating system for netbooks, will be prettier and more flexible than Google Inc.'s Web-only Chrome OS, the company's CEO says.
Google in Mobile 2009 Having created, developed, grown and maintained the world's most popular internet search engine over the last decade, Google has turned its attentions to the mobile market. For the last few years, many of its web services and applications have been making their way to the mobile platform, as the take-up has increased at recession-defying rates for mobile web access and, most notably,
An upcoming lightweight and an open-source operating system that will dominate the browser market today, that announced by Google . They name it as Google Chrome OS which is the natural extension of their previously released browser, Google Chrome . Google designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web, searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying...
Microsoft Corp's chief executive attempted to laugh off the challenge of Google Inc's planned computer operating system on Tuesday, conceding only that it was "interesting".
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