Has anyone try this implementation of chrome OS?

http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/


I am cautious to even try it. Of course, if I do, I will not use my real google account to login, I will create a new google account just for this purpose.

I would use an official google chrome OS but it seems not to be available except for the browser.

I've used dd to install it on a flash device before. Works just fine that way. I would recommend only using a flash device with ~4GB of memory. It would be a waste to do it to a hard drive as ChromeOS is basically a small kernel that boots into a browser. No extra local programs so there's no point in giving it a large disk. It's also only "cloud" enabled so the first time you log into it you must be hard wired to the network and then once it stores your credentials you can use it offline or to log into wifi. That was my experience the last time I used it.

Chromium is the open source version of ChromeOS. There is considerable confusion between chrome and chromium, perhaps intentionally. But chromium, as an OS, is available. Any search engine should find it for you. I've been using ChromeOS for awhile, on a chromebook. They're cheap, and work well. I have an Acer C720 chromebook, and I boot both ChromeOS and Debian on it, depending on what I want to do at the moment. Booting ChromeOS takes about 10 seconds, including entering my password. Booting Debian takes longer, but not that much. There are various ways to dual boot, and my choice is running Debian from a USB flash drive, leaving the internal SSD unchanged. The flash drive is tiny, sticking out only about an eighth of an inch. It's also possible to repartition the SSD and run Linux from there, but I prefer the easy way. On a standard PC, ChromeOS should run fine.

I'm not much of a google chrome fan, I rarely use it. I use firefox mostly because it's what I'm used too and am more familiar with.

If you install the google chrome browser, you are in a way, using chromeOS. In fact, they included a new feature in the chrome store which is available via the browser called For Your Desktops, which allows windows, mac and linux users run chrome apps within the browser.