And finally they made it available for download. But dont be happy yet. The OS won’t be appearing on commercial devices for at least another year.
There are lots of things to do just to make it work. They are providing only the source for Chrome OS. That means we have to compile it to make it work.
ANy way if you want to give it a try you can download the source code today.
Namely, the Chromium browser build for Chrome OS (assuming the now forbidden folder on the Chromium.org servers was accurately named) looks like it’s integrating the tab bar with what would normally be the taskbar/menubar of the operating system. As you can see in the screenshot above, the browser embeds a clock in the top right of the browser window, along with “a network connection dialog (non-functional here), and a battery meter (also non-functional).” That would mean, as we’ve suspected, that the Chrome browser would likely be the main, basic windowing system for Chrome OS.
On the other end of the browser window, we’ve got something else to pick apart:
In the top-left, you have what appears to be the new logo (so far I have been unable to find a larger version of that image). Clicking on it opens this Google Short Links window, which doesn’t really allow you to do anything unless you have a google.com email address, which I assume is restricted to Google employees only.
It’s still clearly a major work in progress, and now Google has entirely forbidden access to the folder containing Chromium builds specifically for Chrome OS, but it’s good to get a glimpse at where they’re headed.
Credit: LifeHacker
