Thursday, February 25, 2010

Chromium OS

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Have you heard about Operating System designed by Google ???
If not !!!  Let me give some of its details about it and the way to have one with you.
Chromium OS is a FLOCSS(Free & Open Source Software) Operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications announced on July 7, 2009, Chrome OS is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010. The operating system is based on Linux.Its Interface mostly resembling the Chrome web browser .It is aimed on the users who spend lot of time on the internet.

How to install it as Virtual OS In Your PC??

Step1: Download Chrome OS .vmdk image file from Web or Click here to download.
Step2: You also have to download the Virtual OS hosting software like Virtual Box .You can also install it other softwares of same kind as VMware player or Workstation.
Step3: After completing the above downloads install the virtual software you have downloaded.
Step4: Run Virtual box and you can see the home screen as this
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Step5: Click on New button and click next and then enter the name of the OS as Chrome OS and change the Operating system as Linux and version as Ubuntu i can’t say why i am taking this but the OS is working only for this options so you have follow.
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Step 6: Now select the size of your RAM which you wants to allocate for Virtual OS.Minimum is 384 Mb as recommended by the Virtual Box .Click next after allocating and you can see a dialogue box as belowimage Now select the radio button Use existing hard disk and browse the .vmdk file which you have downloaded and click next and then click finish.
Step 6: You are one step behind of using Chrome OS..To Start Chrome OS select the Chrome OS option and press start button in the dialogue box appeared after installation as shown.image Now your OS boots with in seconds which is one of the new feature of this OS and asks you for    username and password .           image Don't worry about how to get those username and password its nothing but your Gmail id and password..so Get Ready to explore Chromium OS ……

2 comments:

  1. Nagarjuna Rao DustakarMarch 5, 2010 at 10:20 PM

    Very nice article, but be careful in using your Google id's. As it is not official release. These are compiled from the source code given by Google, by some one.

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  2. Hey thanks for your comment.But here i haven't used any google id's and what made you think that i have used my google id

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