Finally Chromium OS gets its source code opened and right today you can run the first rough version of the Google Chrome OS using VMWare. That's all great apart from poor compatibility and other childhood diseases which I'm sure Google will cure in about a year. They do actually point that out on their official blog. Reminds me a lot of this time last year when first rumors followed by first beta versions of Windows 7 started to come out. Anyway, the big news about Chrome OS is that everyone can lay their hands on it, plus a splash of facts and first test results.To give you a reminder of what the best thing about Chrome OS, let's say it is a browser- web-based type of operating system that is there just to get you on the Internet as fast as it gets. All the apps are web based and, as video below reveals, UI handles everything that is displayed not within a browser window in nice and easy to manage "panels" that can be ducted to sidebar. A "Start menu"-like menu sits in the upper left corner and looks like browser tab but smaller. Frequently used apps like those for Facebook, Twitter, Mail are pinned right next to it. So far Chrome OS will run on flash memory only, x86 or ARM processors but already copes well with multimedia and has HTML5 implemented deep down into the kernel. The only problem with Google operating system so far is, as our fellow colleagues point out, that most people test it on VMWare and have lags associated with that, not with functionality. In wild, developers promise boot up in under ten seconds on laptops. Have a look:
