Comments on: Google Chrome OS – First Looks

By: Ahmad Nazir

Ahmad Nazir — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:22:28 +0000

Google Chrome OS is the most simplest OS I’ve seen so far. Without internet, you can never use it. But its nice though to see Google approaches in OS world, this can shake Microsoft, Apple and Linux as well. Good move!

By: Hafiz

Hafiz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:51:31 +0000

I see, at first, I thought it’s Beta already.

But if it’s that fast, than I’m looking forward to what kinda monster Google will create.

By: Amir

Amir — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:53:23 +0000

Cool stuffs. Thanks for the review. I am also itching to try this, but then I would rather read all about it first, plus, I don’t have the luxury of time to play around with it.

Anyway, I would say it’s a one step to Google, and a giant leap to all the other Linux hacker. Imagine booting to your favorite Linux distro in 2 seconds after this?

By: Firdouss

Firdouss — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:41:13 +0000

To enable wifi, click the power icon on top. If it doesn’t work you’ll have to resort to Ethernet. That’s what happens to my notebook v

to shut down, press the power button briefly :)

By: Ahmad Nazir

Ahmad Nazir — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:28:08 +0000

Thanks, I finally able to boot Chrome OS. But I can’t connect to Wifi, does this mean my network card are not supported? I’m using Dell Inspiron laptop.

One more thing, how do you shut down the OS? I don’t see any way to do that.

By: Firdouss

Firdouss — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:12:40 +0000

.tar.gz is a compressed file format. Very commonly used in the Unix/Linux platform. On windows, you can decompress it using 7zip or WinRAR.

If you’re on Linux/Unix (or even mac os) you can simply decompress it with the command “tar -zxvf chromiumos.tar.gz”

By: Ahmad Nazir

Ahmad Nazir — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:09:45 +0000

I can’t get it to work. After I finished downloading, it turns out to be chromiumos.tar.gz instead of chromiumos.img. I even tried change the extension, and write to my 8GB pendrive, but still I can’t boot it. Help!