Hey everybody!
As some of you know, I like to try new stuff on my laptop. I'm triple booting Windows 7 x64, Mac os X 10.5.8 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the same partition.
Today I'm trying something a little bit different, with a failed and frustrated attempt at running Google Chrome OS on my laptop trough VMware before, I decided to give it another try with a USB image.
Installation is as follows.
How To Run Google Chrome OS From A USB Drive
IF your wireless isn't working like mine did, you can try this.
Wireless on Chrome OS
Basically you can use Ubuntu drivers with it, at least my intel 5100 wireless, haven't tested with other drivers.
Now after the installation, the first thing I noticed is this OS looks and feel like a big browser and it is.
Gone is the desktop and the user folders from which we are so used to, now you get a Google Chrome browser window with a logo on the left acting like a launcher.
If you want to use this OS you have to come with an open mind that you have nothing stored internally, no normal applications where you have to run an installer to use it and with that comes some problems that might take some time to get used to.
One of the issues I have with it is: How the hell can I take screenshots in this? Spent 1 hour looking for solution and desisted. Yeah I pressed Prt SC and F10, F11 and F12 but where do I paste it.
Luckily Google already has their suite of apps which do the most common tasks that an average user might need. Included in the Chrome Launcher are links to popular services like twitter, facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Google Reader, Picasa and others.
So that made me do some searching for web based apps that were not available in the chrome launcher like an Instant messenger. I found Meebo which gets the job done.
Right now there is not much to talk about this OS, but you can clearly see the direction is cloud based work, so you can access your files from anywhere and they are always synced. I see some market for netbooks.
One of the biggest issues people cite is that they don't trust google with their personal info, I can understand that that is serious, maybe when this is adopted in the mainstream it will be target of cyber attacks or not.
As this OS is in early development you can notice some lagging and it clearly says that the UI is under development.
Well that's it for now, I need to go back to windows 7, feeling sick without my files.
Would like to hear your thoughts about this OS.
As some of you know, I like to try new stuff on my laptop. I'm triple booting Windows 7 x64, Mac os X 10.5.8 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the same partition.
Today I'm trying something a little bit different, with a failed and frustrated attempt at running Google Chrome OS on my laptop trough VMware before, I decided to give it another try with a USB image.
Installation is as follows.
How To Run Google Chrome OS From A USB Drive
IF your wireless isn't working like mine did, you can try this.
Wireless on Chrome OS
Basically you can use Ubuntu drivers with it, at least my intel 5100 wireless, haven't tested with other drivers.
Now after the installation, the first thing I noticed is this OS looks and feel like a big browser and it is.
Gone is the desktop and the user folders from which we are so used to, now you get a Google Chrome browser window with a logo on the left acting like a launcher.
If you want to use this OS you have to come with an open mind that you have nothing stored internally, no normal applications where you have to run an installer to use it and with that comes some problems that might take some time to get used to.
One of the issues I have with it is: How the hell can I take screenshots in this? Spent 1 hour looking for solution and desisted. Yeah I pressed Prt SC and F10, F11 and F12 but where do I paste it.
Luckily Google already has their suite of apps which do the most common tasks that an average user might need. Included in the Chrome Launcher are links to popular services like twitter, facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Google Reader, Picasa and others.
So that made me do some searching for web based apps that were not available in the chrome launcher like an Instant messenger. I found Meebo which gets the job done.
Right now there is not much to talk about this OS, but you can clearly see the direction is cloud based work, so you can access your files from anywhere and they are always synced. I see some market for netbooks.
One of the biggest issues people cite is that they don't trust google with their personal info, I can understand that that is serious, maybe when this is adopted in the mainstream it will be target of cyber attacks or not.
As this OS is in early development you can notice some lagging and it clearly says that the UI is under development.
Well that's it for now, I need to go back to windows 7, feeling sick without my files.
Would like to hear your thoughts about this OS.