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So, silly question here (and feel free to point me to a URL where I can learn the answer): at one time there was some buzz about being able to install Chrome OS
by csbrooks 17y ago
So, silly question here (and feel free to point me to a URL where I can learn the answer): at one time there was some buzz about being able to install Chrome OS on an old-ish laptop, and use it for web browsing. The implication was that it would perform better than, say, Windows XP with Firefox.
Is this still a goal, anyone know? (I have a few old laptops laying around, and that sounds pretty neat to me...)
- steveklabnik 17y agoThey've said they're only targetting netbooks for now, specifically ones with SSDs.
- csbrooks 17y agoHuh. That's understandable, but unfortunate for me. I wonder how hard it would be for someone to make this work on other machines. Would that mean strapping on some drivers, maybe grafted on from linux or something?
- steveklabnik 17y agoYou'd probably just have to reconfigure the kernel to load the drivers you'd require. I haven't looked through the code yet myself, but it shouldn't be too difficult.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoIt's just a Linux distro that launches Google Chrome on startup. You can run this on any standard x86 machine.