[ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

[Alan Pope]

2009/11/20 Barry Titterton <barry.titterton at mail.adsl4less.com>:
> The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on
> Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this?
>

There are common components in Google Chrome OS that exist in Ubuntu.
The system boots to a logon screen and once logged in (with a
google/gmail account) you get taken directly into Chrome browser. If
you go to file:/// in the browser you can poke about in the guts of
the file system to see what's there. On a build of Chromium OS kicking
around online, take a look at /etc/lsb-release and you'll see:-

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
CHROMEOS_RELEASE_CODENAME=erunion
CHROMEOS_RELEASE_DESCRIPTION=999.999.32409.000656 (Developer Build -
Fri Nov 20 00:07:42 UTC 2009-root)
CHROMEOS_RELEASE_NAME=Chromium OS
CHROMEOS_RELEASE_TRACK=developer-build
CHROMEOS_RELEASE_VERSION=999.999.32409.000656
GOOGLE_RELEASE=999.999.32409.000656
CHROMEOS_AUSERVER=http://erunion-desktop:8080/update
CHROMEOS_DEVSERVER=http://erunion-desktop:8080

:)

Cheers,
Al.