Download Chrome OS now – it's called cl33n
Posted by Peter Sankauskas on July 8th, 2009
For some strange reason, Chrome OS is getting a lot of press. Is it a slow news day?
They say that it is direct competition to Microsoft, that it makes Linux less relevant… are they serious? Chrome OS is a non-announcement. There is a project that has existed for over 2 years called “cl33n“. From the creator:
cl33n is “Mozilla Firefox running in a little-used windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.”
This “OS” is due to the released mid 2010. Is that how slowly things move inside Google? Why would it take them 12 months to create nothing more than cl33n?
What I am trying to say, is that Chrome OS is nothing new. Cl33n is not alone in this space either – other project like Webconverger share my view.
While on the subject of Google’s non-annoucements, did you hear that Gmail, Doc, etc are out of beta. Big news huh? So what is their excuse now for daily “Server error” dialogs?
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
I have installed Chrome OS on one of my netbooks and the performance of Chrome OS is just okay. there is nothing fancy or very special about it. It was just a sort of GUI version of linux or something.
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December 28th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Chrome OS is just another rebranded Linux GUI, it would be much better if Google came up with an OS that would directly compete with Windows. x
January 8th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
I have installed Chrome OS on one of my laptops. Well, it feels like Ubuntu GUI the first time i use it. It is pretty much very basic.