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Chromium for the Masses
Every time my paycheck is direct-deposited, I contemplate purchasing a Chromebook. Long gone are the days of the CR-48 laptops with the clunky interface and frustrating usability. Although I never quite seem to pull the trigger and buy a Chromebook, thanks to the developer Hexxeh, it's possible to run the Chromium OS on a wide variety of hardware combinations. I'm writing this on my Dell Latitude D420 booted into Hexxeh's Vanilla build of Chromium. (I'm using the excellent Chrome App Writebox as an editor.) You can get the most recent build of Vanilla from Hexxeh's Web site: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net.
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The exciting news, however, has nothing to do with laptops at all. Like most Linux-based pseudo-embedded projects, Hexxeh's Chromium build is getting ported to the Raspberry Pi. Once complete, a Chromium-enabled Raspberry Pi desktop machine will be a very affordable, power-sipping alternative to Google's ChromeBox units. Projects like this really beg the question: is there anything the Raspberry Pi can't do? For more details on the Pi port, visit Hexxeh's blog: http://hexxeh.net.
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As I understood the original idea of Chrome OS, Google wanted users to use its Chrome browser/apps ecosystem and keep it simple by hiding and limiting Linux behind the browser. I've not read of anything doable on Chrome OS that isn't equally doable on any Linux that supports the Chrome browser. Why would a Linux end-user (as opposed to developers) be interested in Chrome OS with its limited Linux functionality, let alone be saving disposable income to buy a Chromebook?
Chromium
why would you trust goggle with anything?
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Mmm... I would trust Google though.
I once put something together
I once put something together that was similar to Chromium OS, using Arch Linux, Firefox, Openbox, and FireSSH.
Dell D420
Last time I tried Chromium OS on my D420, the wireless did not work. If that is fixed, it would make a great cheap chrome(ium)book!
I foresee performance issues...
I can't imagine that the Raspberry Pi will handle Chromium OS very well at all, as it clearly struggles when running lightweight web browsers such as Midori. Although apparently hardware-accelerated X is in the pipeline...
Raspberry PI speed and chromium
512mb RAM may help, but I have not seen any reviews