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On 08/07/11 21:19, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:13:15 +0100 > Gibbs wrote: > >> >> Anyone care to explain this difference between Chrome OS (the one >> above isn't made by Google) and Chromium OS (the one made by Google)? >> >> I've played around with Chromium OS before. IIRC it was just a >> stripped down system "in the cloud" running the Chromium browser. >> >> Cheers >> >> Gibbs > > As I understand it: > > Chromium is an Open Source web-browser based on the WebKit (formerly > KHTML) rendering engine. > > Chrome is a product by Google based on the above browser but with a > couple of other bells/whistles. > > ChromiumOS is an operating system that makes the browser the central > point of everything. > > ChromeOS is a product by Google based on the above operating system but > with a couple of other bells/whistles. And the one Paul tried in neither of the above but does include the Chrome browser, it is nothing to do with Google, and appears to be knocked together using SuSE Studio (a point and click interface to create your own installation media for customised GNU/Linux distros) and apparently named "Chrome OS Linux" to create maximum confusion. ChromeOS is I think rather more than "a couple of bells and whistles", on top of Chromium, it is run on pre-set hardware which sorts all that boot and hardware detection rubbish, and all the cloud stuff which Google see as central is just not there. I think there is genuinely a change of mindset here, a much needed one. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq