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Symantec to launch security software for the Chrome OS. What?
Although, netbooks sporting Chromium OS will releasing next year, security vendors are already planning on introducing apps to protect the OS from viruses. Symanec is planning to bring its security software to both Android and Chrome OS.
Commentary: This is something that I never expected to happen. Chrome OS is a pretty closed operating system where the only way to expand its capabilities is by downloading extensions that are also available on the Google Chrome Browser. I hope Google will make the browser OS secure enough so that we won’t be forced to run anti-virus on an instant-on OS
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Opera to build a browser inside Google Chrome OS? WTH
With the release of Google’s Chrome OS BETA, it was crystal clear that the only application that would run in Chrome OS would be Google’s very own browser, the Chrome.
The only way to add more functionality is by using Chrome browser extensions. Opera’s chief standards officer believes that Opera may be able to offer its excellent browsing speed and functionality right inside the Chrome OS’s web browser by offering the whole browser as an add-on.
Remember the Chrome Frame? An IE plugin to make the IE behave like Chrome web browser. This will be implemented, more or less, in the same way.
Chrome OS now available for 64-bit machines
Chromium OS is currently being targeted only towards netbooks, but thanks to its open source nature, some folks have ported to the 64-bit machines.
Although the port is still in pre-alpha state, it certainly won’t hurt to try it on a non-netbook. Now, if I had a 64-bit machine to try it out ;)
Note: Download size is 1.1GB
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Chrome OS on a 1GB stick, now possible
We days back, we did a review of Google Chrome OS (Beta). That installation of Google Chrome took quite a lot of space. To those who were running it directly from the memory stick were required to use one with a minimum of 8GB capacity.
Well, there is a leaner version of it that will fit on a 1GB memory stick. This one also includes the latest build of Chrome OS which brings in better WiFi support too.
Acer Chrome Netbook to debut in 2010!
Yesterday, we mentioned list of netbooks that are compatible with Google Chrome OS, but that list does not include any of the upcoming netbooks that will run Chrome OS. According to the latest Digitimes rumor, Acer will be launching its Chrome OS netbook in the 2nd half of 2010. According to Acer’s chairman, JT Wang, Acer will be the first netbook vendor to churn out Chrome OS netbook. Whether their Chrome netbook will dual boot with Windows OS is still a mystery.
Acer is already the number one in the netbook sales even though they do not offer a lot of models to offers like other manufactures. Great build quality and cheap price are the core factors behind their success.
Netbooks that run or will be able to run Chome/Chromium OS
Google has put a list of netbooks that support the current builds of Chrome OS. These netbooks include
- ASUS EEE 901 (wifi card needs to be replaced)
- ASUS EEE 1005HA
- SONY VAIO W
- ASUS EEE 700/701/702
- Lenovo S12
- Packard Bell Dot S/R netbooks
- Packard Bell Dot s
- Acer Aspire 531H
- Asus eee 900
- Asus eee 1008HA
- Gateway LT20
- Acer Aspire D250
- Toshiba NB200
- ASUS EEE 1000
- Dell Mini 10V
- HP Mini 5101
- Lenovo S10
Google netbook worth $20 coming? – we think not!
Believe it or not! But according to Linux expert Glyn Moody, ‘Google is set to give away free computers’. By computers, he meant netbooks worth $20. As all the applications are based on the web, so the netbook running Chrome OS will not require any HDDs or even RAM. He says that Chrome OS based free netbooks could be offered by Google as a way to push its advertising.
This news is unreal. No way, a company can produce netbook for as-low-as $20. What do you get for $20 these days? A RAM module?
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Google Chrome OS/Chromium OS (beta) quick review
Soon, we will see myriad of manufactures coming up with Chromium netbooks: the netbooks that run Google Chrome OS. We managed to get hold of a beta copy from you-know-where and tried it using Virtual machine.
Here is the login screen of the Chrome OS. Google has kept it simple. You need to have a Gmail account in order to login. After all, this is a Google OS and to use Google Services like Gtalk, Google Docs and Gmail, you need to have a Google account.
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Google Chrome OS aka Chromium OS details
We have mentioned Google Chrome OS and Chrome OS netbooks and MIDs many times here on Gadgetmix.com. Well, as expected Google has revealed few more details about the Chromium OS today. We were looking forward for its BETA release or launch of some netbook running Chromium OS, but that did not happen.
Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.
However, we got some juicy details of what the Google wants Chrome OS to do:
- It certainly is not going to replace your desktop OS. It can do so if the only activity you do on a computer is web-browsing and chat. The apps that will be used on the Chromium OS will be using HTML5. In simple words, these are web-based apps, that completely depend on the Internet connection. So, no Internet connection means that app would be useless
- Boot time of mere 7 seconds: Although this will greatly depend on the hardware it will be run on, but Google wants to keep the boot times as short as possible. Google is even touting it as “Instant on OS”. Note that Google is still optimizing its code for even shorter boot times
- Google’s Chromium OS comes with these web-apps: Picase Web, Hulu, YouTube, Google’s Music app and Notepad
- Right now, Google’s main aim is to get it on as many netbooks and MIDs as it can. It will be made available for both x86 as-well-as ARM infrastructures.
- Expect machines to be out before the Christmas season commences
- Right now, Google is making only its source code available for download.
Google Chrome Operating System coming this week!
Google Chrome will be able to download since next week, atleast this what TechCrunch has heard from a ‘reliable’ source. The main problem is going to be with the drivers. Google has left it on the manufactures to develop the drivers for their netbooks/smartbooks themselves. With ASUS postponing release of their Chrome OS netbooks and Acer now with Android OS with the release of their first Android netbooks based on the D250 model, this leaves us to count on HP, DELL and MSI.
We do not see SONY adopting Google Chrome OS as they already have their instant-on OS that comes on the VAIO P. Also, SONY has always been a bit reluctant in releasing a notebook that runs non-Windows OS
