I wasn’t going to get into this too much since the download is one you’ll have to build and I didn’t want to go through all the motions to make this happen. But it appears someone has created a Virtual Machine (VM) you can use to try it out.
http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ is the place to get it at. You will need to create an account on the site (free), download a copy of Chrome OS which they offer a link to do that and you’ll need a VM platform to get it working. VMWare is what it’s designed for, but VirtualBox can also use vmware images but there could be issues (not all work perfectly) as you’ll see from the site.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player — To Get Vmware Player. If you have a Mac you can use Fusion, and it should work find on other VMWare products.
http://www.virtualbox.org — To get VirtualBox, but I’d recommend installing it from your distributions repository for full support, other wise you’re on your own updating it and all that fun stuff.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html — Source from Google, may have to jump through some hoops to download it
http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os — To Get Chrome OS ready to go.
Note: all these links can be found on gdgt.com directly from the first link in this article. I include them for convenience.
Also you can review TechCrunch’s web site that will give you some step-by-step instructions along with a torrent link to download it from also
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install-google-chrome-os/
Have fun!
How many times have you discovered that your hard disk is filling up even though you are not installing any applications. You think ‘do I really have that much data’, or you store your data on a separate drive from your OS and applications (something we recommend to all clients and friends) and cannot understand why your OS or application drive keeps filling up.
Chances are its because of the applications themselves either downloading content into it’s application directory, or it uses the windows ‘Application Data’ directory to store temporary or cached data, some cases even permanent data remains in these directories.
A good example of this is Google Earth that keeps it’s cache database in your Apps Data directory, and can easily exceed several gigabytes in size.
Or maybe you love the convenience of the “My Documents” directory and accessing it directly from the start menu, but don’t have enough room for your data.
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Are you one of the folks who has an Google email account? They are not hard to find, and very easy to get and many folks find it very handy. But for most Windows users, trying to adopt a webmail-like email such as GMAIL in place of typical clients like Outlook Express can have some problems.
Enter Google Notify. Its a great little tool that simply monitors calls to email and redirects them to your Gmail account. No more clicking on email links on web pages and getting outlook express popping up. Now the request generates a gmail compose message and seems to work very well. It will also tell you when you have new mail!
What if it doesn’t work?
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