Google Chromium OS - Screenshots

- December 06, 2009

Yesterday I have finished building Google Chromium OS from source. I was little bit curious about that. After running the image in VirtualBox, truly I can say one thing - I am not impressed. You can't do anything without your browser. Because it is developed by Google. So people have to use there products through browser.
But it has some good things also. Booting is too fast. It is 100% Open Source. You can say that it's a new distro of GNU/Linux. Final version of Google Chromium OS will be released on Mid 2010. So we can hope that it will acquire more features. One more thing. You can't do anything without internet.

Here are some screenshot which I took:

1. Login Screen

2. Browse Website

3. About Memory

4. Process Management

5. File System

Comments

jaamee said…

Bhaiya any brief how to about building it from source here ? That'll be really helpful for us :-)

6:58 PM

jaamee said…

or following the http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os will do ..... another question bhaiya .... what's the convenient way to create an ISO file so that I can set it up on HDD

7:03 PM

Khandakar Mujahidul Islam said…

Jaamee,

Yes, follow the http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os .

You may face one of two problems. It depends on from where you would download your source. Here there are two method of downloading source.

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/getting-the-chromium-os-source-code

If you follow Method 1, you may face one problem while you run "./build_platform_packages.sh".
I fixed that problem. You have to change lines in "chromiumos/src/platform/chrome/copy_chrome_zip.sh". Here I am giving you the diff of old "copy_chrome_zip.sh" and new "copy_chrome_zip.sh" file.

suzan@suzan:~/chromiumos/src/platform/chrome$ diff copy_chrome_zip.sh_back copy_chrome_zip.sh
22c22,23
< CHROME_BUILD=4.0.250.2
---
> #CHROME_BUILD=4.0.250.2
> CHROME_BUILD=
52c53
< BASE_FROM="http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/linux/LATEST/"
---
> BASE_FROM="http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/linux"
94,96c95,97
< download "${BASE_FROM}/LATEST"
< CHROME_BUILD=`cat LATEST`
< echo "Latest build of Chrome is $CHROME_BUILD"
---
> download "${BASE_FROM}/LATEST/chrome-linux.zip"
> #CHROME_BUILD=`cat LATEST`
> #echo "Latest build of Chrome is $CHROME_BUILD"
102c103
< download "${BASE_FROM}/${CHROME_BUILD}/${CHROME_ZIP_SECOND_TRY}"
---
> download "${BASE_FROM}/${CHROME_BUILD}LATEST/${CHROME_ZIP_SECOND_TRY}"

If you follow Method 2, you may face one problem while you run "./build_kernel.sh".

7:47 PM