2009/11/20 Barry Titterton <barry.titter...@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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
