A Chrome OS blog
The debate about which operating system is best has raged on for years now, with the majority of that battle being fought between users of the Mac, and PC users, who are pretty much forced to swallow a healthy dose of Windows. While that debate has been going back and forth, Google decided to enter the mix by announcing that they would be releasing their Chrome OS, which is an entirely different beast from pretty much anything else on offer. The Chrome OS works on the principle that everything that you need for a regular Windows...
Read More
Lime, Hexxeh’s newest Chrome OS
Today Hexxeh announced their newest take on the Chrome OS, this time “with a citrus twist“. Hexxeh has set their own deadline for the new distro to be available for download in 2 weeks from today. But the article is dated Dec 15th but appeared on the site just today. So then the deadline is either Dec 29th or Jan 3rd, or neither is the release it missed as Hexxeh makes no promises: “The goal is to release within two weeks, but I’m not making any guarantee that it will be available within two...
Read MoreRooting the Droid – USB Live Chrome OS
Boot Chromium OS from USB While still early in it’s development stages, Google‘s upcoming Chrome OS is a neat OS to play with — especially on a netbook. While the Virtual Machine images floating around are nice for a glimpse, if you really want to immerse yourself in the Chrome OS experience it’s best to boot it from the metal. This can be achieved by “burning” this Chromium OS image to 3GB or greater USB or SD media. Here’s a torrent. If you’re familiar with dd...
Read MoreMotorola Droid trumps iPhone 3GS
5mp camera + flash = Droid ftw Get it now for $40 off at Amazon.com I upgraded to the Motorola Droid about a week ago and sometimes I use it over my desktop computer, just because it’s a more exciting, hands on way of connecting. It has a “duel core processor” for mobile phones, lol. No lie. And like I said above a 5.0 mega pixel flash camera that takes still shots and video. The Droid comes with a 16 megabyte micro sd card which allows for video capture for up to thirty minutes at a time. Ohh and...
Read MoreGoogle Chrome OS Open Source Project Announcement
On November 19th 2009 Sundar Pichai, Matt Papakipos & a little bit of Sergey Brin (Co-Founder of Google) announced Google Chrome OS source code available to the public. “As of today, Google developers will be working on the same tree as external developers, so what ever we do will be out in the open and we’re really looking forward to working with the open source community to help drive this forward.” – Sundar Pichai “We’re doing a big open source release today, so as Sundar mentioned...
Read MoreHello world!
Welcome to Download Google OS. This is our first post. We keep it around mostly for historical reasons but also to begin developing the statement of DownloadGoogleOS.com. So here goes draft one: “Download Google OS is here to provide a list of quality Google OS builds. User will be able to upload and download images of Google OS at their own risk. Certain images will be pre-labeled as uber safe, while others maybe malicious. Download Google OS will foster a community where people and teams can share their version of...
Read More
