Processor: Intel Pentium, Atom, Xeon or newer AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer. One is the default LiveCD and they give a separate USB ISO image (that’s slightly bigger in size, meaning additional programs).Īs said, the purpose here is to build an OS with minimal hardware requirements (not entirely sure how Gnome-Shell would fit in though, ahh perhaps the “fall-back-mode”) thus to run Chrome OS Linux you’d have to have a PC with … The downloading section consists of two separate ISO images. Pidgin and Cheese web cam software… are just a few to mention. Wine emulator (so you could attempt to run Windows software on GNU/Linux). LibreOffice 3.3 as the office productivity suite. Google music manager support (another first timer for the OS). Latest Google Chrome web browser 17.0.932. Both Gnome 2.3 classic desktop and Gnome Shell (first timer). Designed around Chrome (obviously) despite the Gnome desktop integration… The Chrome OS Linux developers yesterday announced the availability of the 1.7.932 RC (release candidate) live CDs, if you’re interested.

“The aim of this project is to provide a lightweight Linux distribution for the best web browsing experience on any x86 PC, notebook or Chromebook…”

Although they both “revolve” around the Chrome web browser, yet the Chrome OS Linux is an independent GNU/Linux distribution build on the OpenSuse distribution.Īccording to her developers, the aim is to develop a lightweight operating system (with an emphasis on giving a quality web browsing experience) that should run quite fast even on the older hardware where recent desktop “shift” is focused on “fancy” graphics and all that and they’re struggling to run properly even on never hardware (especially GPU) due to some driver incompatibilities. Chrome OS Linux is a completely separate project from the original Google Chrome OS.

Google chrome os flex iso download