Chrome OS official build download?(build.chromium.org)

13 pointsby estvor 17 Jahren11 comments

build.chromium.org

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux-chromeos/

7 comments

ynnivvor 17 Jahren

chrome-linux.zip contains a 532MB executable called "chrome". My guess is that this is the entire OS outside the kernel compiled into a single executable (there are a couple of libs, likely these internally rely on the library mechanism).

To use this you would need to create a disk image with a bootloader (grub), add an appropriate linux kernel (drivers?), and configure the kernel to launch "chrome" instead of initd. You might be able to cheat by starting with one of the unofficial disk images floating around the net and copying these more official looking files into it.

estvor 17 Jahren

After my investigation, it turned to be a debug version of Chromium-for-ChromeOS. If you open it with a hex editor you can see a ELF mark at the beginning.

estvor 17 Jahren

from solidot (Slashdot in Chinese)

http://linux.solidot.org/linux/09/10/13/0921225.shtml

via Chinese Ubuntu forum

http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=231866

Screenshot by a blogger:

http://li2z.cn/2009/10/13/chrome-os/

ryandvmvor 17 Jahren

No. It's a build of Chromium for Chrome OS.

(Chromium is the open source version of Google Chrome, Google's web browser.)

luigivor 17 Jahren

Here are the screenshots. It's available as a .deb, and right now looks like a web browser trying to be a desktop manager:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/chromeos-pictures-google....

figitalvor 17 Jahren

I was hoping Mozilla would get around to this first as the XUL/desktop concept had been sitting dormant for quite awhile: http://robin.sourceforge.net

I suspect Google will put more attention into the usability (easy programmability) of a data-driven desktop shell.

e1venvor 17 Jahren

These are links to the Chromium project, which is the open source version of the Google Chrome Web Browser. These builds run on Linux.

Am I missing something?

estvor 17 Jahren

Yes, Chrome browser for Linux is:

    http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/

And Chrome OS's URL is

    http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux-chromeos/

A screenshot shows the string "Chrome OS" on a tab:

http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/download/file.php?id=80451&mo...

e1venvor 17 Jahren

I suppose I'll have to download and install to be sure, but it really looks like a version of the Chrome Browser, which is designed to run on the new Chrome OS.

That said, looking at the Screenshot, I can see some "OS" like features, such as the clock, or maybe a button in the browser which launches other applications..

I think I see why they're calling the OS Chrome. It's not that they're re-using the name, they're just adding basic windowing and app launching to the Chrome Browser.

If you ran it "Chromeless" (Ie, without the Gnome dock, etc), you could use this as a.. Sort-of OS.

That's very much not what I had imagined for a "Chrome OS", which would be much more like the fake demo video we say on Techcrunch a few weeks ago, but this would be a very Easy project to put together.

natemartinvor 17 Jahren

I saw this yesterday. It certainly seems official. I've got no idea how to get it booted in virtualbox though.

cbzvor 17 Jahren

seems like chromium team removed it intentionally.