Chrome OS source code

Cool! The window manager is super tiny. And uses Clutter apparently:<p><a href="http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;a=blob;f=src/platform/window_manager/window_manager.cc;h=7b9f3f485f84a0c32bb29e65c2eb278b63617b96;hb=HEAD" rel="nofollow">http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;...</a><p>But just naively judging by the amount of code here this doesn't feel like the bombshell the tech press is expecting.

Also at the same time, there seems to be live blogging sessions happening on the "Google Chrome OS" Event:<p>* Live Webcast: <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20091119_chrome_os_webcast.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20091119_chrome_os_...</a><p>* Looks like TechCrunch is covering the event, best: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/chrome-os-event/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/chrome-os-event/</a><p>* Matt Cutts: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/</a><p>* Danny Sullivan: <a href="http://searchengineland.com/liveblogging-the-google-chrome-os-press-conference-30156" rel="nofollow">http://searchengineland.com/liveblogging-the-google-chrome-o...</a>

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

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

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

Looks like they are inviting submissions now also:<p><a href="http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/making-changes" rel="nofollow">http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/build...</a>

IMO, one interesting thing is about the native support for SSDs and elimination of long known &#38; trustworthy HDDs. Clearly the sign of things happening!!

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

<a href="http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;a=blob;f=src/scripts/chromeos_version.sh;h=b571b5db1fa960f5a4b676ba0899b009ea30211c;hb=HEAD" rel="nofollow">http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;...</a> Maybe Official builds is Chrome OS Continuous builds and developer hand-builds is chronium OS

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

Chrome is open source yet seems to have a bunch of restrictions - no standard hard drives, no native apps, etc.<p>What's to keep a third party from changing those restrictions?

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.<p>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.<p><i>Good coders code, great - reuse.</i> This seems like Google's favorite mantra.<p>update: <a href="http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/platform/init/preload-chrome.conf;hb=HEAD" rel="nofollow">http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;...</a> - to those who understands =)

How many times is this going to get posted?<p>That's not Chrome OS, it's the source code for the Chrome OS port of Chromium.