Diet Chromium OS — Less Filling, Works on Most Everything

Diet Chromium OS — Less Filling, Works on Most Everything

Chrome OS has only been "out" a short while, but due to its open-source roots, folks are already making it available for those hardy souls who want to give it a try. Dell has already put it out there for Mini 10v owners, but others were left to their own designs. No more, as a distribution, dubbed Diet Chromium OS, has been released, and reports have it working on just about everything out there.

The first noticeable change is the 300 MB download, down a far cry from the 8 GB that "real" Chrome OS consumes. That makes Diet Chromium OS much easier to get hold of as the download is quite manageable. This explains the distribution's name. The real magic of Diet Chromium is that driver support has been extended for all sorts of systems. Users are reporting already that Diet Chromium works on everything from netbooks to quad-core powerhouses.

Our buddy Brad at Liliputing has put together a good tutorial for getting Diet Chromium running on a system near you. Brad's method installs Diet Chromium on a USB drive, so no local system installation is required. You build the USB stick, boot from it, and off you go. I'm definitely going to give this a try.

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[link to original | source: GigaOM | published: 14 hours ago | shared via feedly]