ChromeOS == OpenSuSE

Story: First devices with Chrome OS this month?Total Replies: 6
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tracyanne

Oct 04, 2009
5:18 PM EDT
I just downloaded and set up ChromeOS in a VM, it looks to me to be little more than OpenSuSE with the Chrome webbrowser offered as the default Browser. This is a checkbox option, if you don't select it, even if you do, you can install via Yast any other browser, anyway.
azerthoth

Oct 04, 2009
5:42 PM EDT
eeew
Libervis

Oct 04, 2009
6:01 PM EDT
It's a fake: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/24/how-not-to-fake-goog...

Yet I fell for it enough to download and spin it in virtualbox. :S

Google promised a whole new UI, so it wouldn't be GNOME.
herzeleid

Oct 04, 2009
6:06 PM EDT
hmm, an interesting choice, as opensuse seems a bit bloated to me. (and I mean that in the nicest way possible)
gus3

Oct 04, 2009
10:11 PM EDT
"Does this code base make my filesystem look FAT?"
Steven_Rosenber

Oct 05, 2009
12:01 AM EDT
I can't seem to find it now, but I remember seeing some kind of project page for the Chrome OS that mentioned the use of GNOME.
Bob_Robertson

Oct 05, 2009
12:57 PM EDT
Well, I've been thinking for a while that Google could save themselves a huge quantity of work if they just put a Google "theme" in front of a standard distribution.

Maybe they heard me. Eeeek indeed.

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