Dell sows ‘experimental’ Chrome OS for Mini netbooks
Googles new ChromiumOS is getting put through it’s paces at Dell. Engineers at Dell have begun to use the new ChromiumOS on their 10v Mini’s. While the new OS is nowhere near stable it seems that it will have some potential.
With a post to the company’s Community Blog, Dell technology strategist Doug Anson tells the world that he and “some other Dell folk” have managed to get the open source ChromiumOS up and running on a Mini 10v. And he kindly provides a link to their USB key image.
Anson’s description of Google’s “operating system” is far from surprising. “Without a network connection, ChromiumOS is not very interesting,” he says. “With a network connection, ChromiumOS shines.” He and his fellow Dell folk have managed to tap the Mini 10v’s Broadcom WiFi adapter, but there are (many) caveats. “It’s definitely not perfect (read: highly experimental, untested, unstable, yada yada…,” Anson says, “but it does appear to function.”
He warns that the network manager may need 5 to 10 minutes to “see” available access points and that the manager and its underlying components “can easily break or get hung.”
“When in doubt,” he says, “reboot and give it another try.”
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