DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL GOOGLE CHROME OS SOFTWARE

If you get the torrent version, youвЂ™ll see itвЂ™s in a. You can also try out the build that GDGT has uploaded, which worked fine in our test as well. But itвЂ™s more than good enough to get a feel for the OS for yourself.ДЇirst, you need to get an image of Chrome OS. Also note that because this is running in a virtual machine, youвЂ™re probably not going to be seeing great performance (like that 7 second boot time). ThereвЂ™s an easy fix if youвЂ™re worried though: just go make a throwaway Gmail account, and use that to play around with the OS. In theory it could possibly have been tweaked by some malicious hacker to steal your Google account information (this is unlikely, but who knows).

DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL GOOGLE CHROME OS SOFTWARE

But it will get it up and running in a virtual machine using the free software VirtualBox, which is available for Macs, PCs, and Linux.ДЇirst, a few caveats: we didnвЂ™t create the Chrome OS build ourselves -В it was downloaded from BitTorrent. No, this wonвЂ™t get your computer booting Chrome OS natively (and frankly, you probably wouldnвЂ™t want to yet anyway). So weвЂ™ve put together a step-by-step guide to doing this, for free, in around 15 minutes (depending on how long it takes to download the OS itself).

Unfortunately, most people arenвЂ™t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking GoogleвЂ™s recently open-sourced code and turning that into a bootable computer. And now that itвЂ™s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself.

The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system.

Download and install google chrome os