Chrome OS source code

http://src.chromium.org/

by ypavan • 17 years ago

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src.chromium.org

ryandvm2• 17 years ago

How many times is this going to get posted?

That's not Chrome OS, it's the source code for the Chrome OS port of Chromium.

cx01• 17 years ago

Take a closer look at the projects listed on the right-hand side. There's much more than Chrome.

ypavan5• 17 years ago

True. Have a look at chromiumos.git, ibus, login_manager.git , pam_google.git, syslinux.git and kernel.git

teilo2• 17 years ago

I assumed what you did, but looking closer, this is definitely the real deal, complete with the Google-patched 2.6.30 kernel.

What I find interesting here is that ChromeOS has its own window manager for X. I was under the impression that the video system was something new. Does this mean that they still support X running on their own video subsystem?

I predict that someone will start releasing self-compiled ChromiumOS builds running very soon.

ErrantX• 17 years ago

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/s...

According to that it looks like they are definitely using X.

They seem to have made a lot of tweaks to low level firmware too.

wmf2• 17 years ago

I was under the impression...

You got suckered by completely unfounded rumors. (Don't feel bad, so did almost everyone else.)

ryandvm2• 17 years ago

Eep - I apologize for making the assumption that this was another "Chromium for Chrome" post.

kilowatt• 17 years ago

Cool! The window manager is super tiny. And uses Clutter apparently:

http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;...

But just naively judging by the amount of code here this doesn't feel like the bombshell the tech press is expecting.

jshen5• 17 years ago

judging by the amount of code? What kind of metric is that?

The vision of the browser as the OS is huge.

swannodette• 17 years ago

It might be huge but it's all more than a bit scary coming from Google. Also I question the adoption rate of something like this. All my stuff in the cloud == EVIL as far I'm concerned.

chrischen4• 17 years ago

It's simply an enhancement to the way we use computers. But regular OSs will always have their place. I'm not sure it's so huge that it's what we will all migrate to though.

jacknero• 17 years ago

http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;... Maybe Official builds is Chrome OS Continuous builds and developer hand-builds is chronium OS

boundlessdreamz• 17 years ago

What is clone URL of the git repos? Not familiar with gitweb and not able to guess the repo URL

mbrubeck• 17 years ago

This is a cloneable URI: http://src.chromium.org/git/chromiumos.git

Here are complete instructions to download and build the source: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

And Google's Matt Cutts is liveblogging the annoucement webcast (includes links to other blog coverage): http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/

teilo2• 17 years ago

Looks like they are inviting submissions now also:

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/build...

ypavan5• 17 years ago

Also at the same time, there seems to be live blogging sessions happening on the "Google Chrome OS" Event:

* Live Webcast: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20091119_chrome_os_...

* Looks like TechCrunch is covering the event, best: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/chrome-os-event/

* Matt Cutts: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/

* Danny Sullivan: http://searchengineland.com/liveblogging-the-google-chrome-o...

ypavan5• 17 years ago

Youtube's GoogleChrome Channel has 5 new videos on the Chrome OS.

http://www.youtube.com/user/googlechrome

ypavan5• 17 years ago

IMO, one interesting thing is about the native support for SSDs and elimination of long known & trustworthy HDDs. Clearly the sign of things happening!!

csbrooks3• 17 years ago

SSDs, HHDs: Could I get some clarification on those TLAs? :)

scott_s• 17 years ago

Solid-state drives and hard-disk drives. HDDs are mechanical devices with spinning platters. SSDs have no moving parts; it's all silicon. (HHD is not what he mentioned, but it's a hybrid hard drive; solid state cache with normal disk drives.)

ypavan5• 17 years ago

SSD = Solid State Device (Drive) HDD = Hard Disk Drive

csbrooks3• 17 years ago

So, silly question here (and feel free to point me to a URL where I can learn the answer): at one time there was some buzz about being able to install Chrome OS on an old-ish laptop, and use it for web browsing. The implication was that it would perform better than, say, Windows XP with Firefox.

Is this still a goal, anyone know? (I have a few old laptops laying around, and that sounds pretty neat to me...)

steveklabnik4• 17 years ago

They've said they're only targetting netbooks for now, specifically ones with SSDs.

csbrooks3• 17 years ago

Huh. That's understandable, but unfortunate for me.

I wonder how hard it would be for someone to make this work on other machines. Would that mean strapping on some drivers, maybe grafted on from linux or something?

GeneralMaximus• 17 years ago

It's just a Linux distro that launches Google Chrome on startup. You can run this on any standard x86 machine.

owlboy2• 17 years ago

Any builds out there yet for me to throw into Virtual Box?

steveklabnik4• 17 years ago

They said it works under virtualization already, so you could just go to chromium.org and download it yourself. The build process isn't too bad.

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/build...

kennardsmith• 17 years ago

found a couple posted here:

http://www.technixupdate.com/direct-download-links-for-unoff...

s3graham• 17 years ago

I don't think this is Chromium OS, I think it's SUSE + the Chrome browser, as per http://www.getchrome.eu/. Confusing though.

joe_the_user• 17 years ago

Chrome is open source yet seems to have a bunch of restrictions - no standard hard drives, no native apps, etc.

What's to keep a third party from changing those restrictions?

owlboy2• 17 years ago

Prolly not a lot.

wmf2• 17 years ago

If you modify it then it's not Chrome OS™ any more; it's merely Chromium OS.

utexaspunk• 17 years ago

Well all hail Chromium OS, then. Screw google...

steveklabnik4• 17 years ago

Nothing. It's BSD licensed.

jsz02• 17 years ago

Nothing at all. I'm sure it will happen. If someone forks Chrome OS to add functionality it's very likely it will still be built on Google services. Google isn't interested in developing a full blown desktop OS themselves. If the community wants to add stuff maybe at some point in the future Google will fold some of it back into their official Chrome OS releases. Ultimately it's a product they're giving away for free so they clearly don't intend to make money directly off Chrome OS (or Android) so if you choose to get a Chrome OS variant from another source it doesn't really matter.

cpr• 17 years ago

One thing that hit me watching the webcast was that Linux is going to get first-priority treatment from the Chrome browser guys.

rms• 17 years ago

Already Chromium on Linux is decidedly more stable than Chrome on Windows

c00p3r• 17 years ago

It uses X11, gdk-2.0 and clutter-1.0 for drawing, and gtk-2.0 widgets. All from your Ubuntu system on which you would build an image.

So, it us just a layer on top of Ubuntu's "core" (glibc, X11, gtk, dpkg) with custom kernel, pam_google (!) desktop manager, window manager, installer and updater.

Good coders code, great - reuse. This seems like Google's favorite mantra.

update: http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;... - to those who understands =)

vegai• 17 years ago

"Good coders code, great - reuse."

This would work if the reusable stuff had been made by good coders.

patrickmclaren• 17 years ago

It's a nice concept. But I'm still paying out of my ass for broadband and I come close to, if not hit my limit every month.

I couldn't imagine working with everything in the cloud, not for a few more years ;)

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