Boot Chrome OS from a USB drive

[JMMD]

A nice light alternative to Windows would be great for smaller devices. I really wish Microsoft would make a slim version of Windows with nothing but whatever is absolutely necessary for the OS to run.

 

[Guest]

This is Awesome! only works on one of my USB keys though, a Sandisk 4gb, worth the couple of pound extra. Will be amazing with full WIFI driver set. Google does it again!!

 

[claycc]

It sounds pretty interesting to me, esp. if it runs really well on a netbook. You don't need a lot for a netbook so a simple OS that is good for surfing the web and working on documents would be perfect.

 

[Guest]

Wow, what an utter disappointment. It did boot fast (and logged directly into my google account, to show me ads), but on my high end machine there was a noticeable delay in typing and everything else. Even if that was some technical issue, ignoring it, it looked like a direct rip-off of a tabbed small "kiosk" distro I have seen, that worked much better.

Heck, I even created the functionally same thing with stripped ubuntu, with a startup command in the gnome config that started Seamonkey before it started xwindows. Booted just as fast. I use it all the time on my legacy very low end laptop (p3, 190kb ram), except unlike Android, when I simply close the Seamonkey, it completes the boot to a full os, with disk drives and everything.

oh, and its ugly. I have a Mac, a Vista, and linux I use all the time. I wouldn't put Android on my exwife's computer.