Screenshot Tutorial: How to D-I-Y your own Google Chrome OS with Xen-based Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64 Virtual Machine in Fedora 11 x86_64 Pv-Ops Dom0

[Bob McConnell]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> suvayu ali wrote:
>> 2009/11/22 Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org>:
>>   
>>> On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 18:02 +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Google Chrome OS Download
>>>>
>>>> Filename: Google-Chrome-OS-Build-enming.teo-22Nov2009-0704hrs.vmdk
>>>>
>>>> Filesize: 697.38MB
>>>>       
>>> Or, if you simply want the Chromium browser in Fedora, just use spot's
>>> packages that work just fine. To do this, place
>>>
>>> [chromium]
>>> name=Chromium Test Packages
>>> baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/
>>> enabled=1
>>> gpgcheck=0
>>>
>>> in /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo and run
>>>  # yum -y install chromium
>>> Now you have the Chromium logo in the applications menu, or you can
>>> start it from the terminal with
>>>  $ chromium-browser
>>>     
>> I think the OP is experimenting with this ;)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS
>>
>>   
> Yes....  And, FYI, a similar package is available at
> http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ 
> 
> Apologies for the OT post as this is certainly not Fedora...but it is
> Linux based.... :-)

This conversation did resolve one question for me. I was thinking of 
taking a look at it until I found out it is simply a browser. I won't 
need to waste any time on it until after they add Usenet and Email clients.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP