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Diet Chrome OS is smaller, faster, has better hardware support
Built on more recent code than the initial releases we saw popping up as virtual drive images, Diet Chromium is an improvement in many ways. Developer Hexxeh has also stripped out as much unneeded code as possible - resulting in a 300MB download. That's a bit more manageable than the 8GB image released by Dell's engineers.
On top of that, it's got support for a broader range of hardware - meaning you'll be able to run it on all kinds of hardware that Google doesn't plan on supporting in the RTM next year. Your laptop? Definitely. I'm actually writing this post from an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop running Diet Chromium from a USB flash drive. Your desktop quad core behemoth? Yeah, it'll probably run just fine from there, too.
Suspend and resume also worked on my laptop - no need to worry about Google' puny list of 20 or so systems which have partial support.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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DiRT said 1:22PM on 12-01-2009
Um... it's the first link in the article...
der_tuxman said 9:26AM on 12-01-2009
Chrome OS, however, is a massive fail as it is based on Ubuntu code:
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7600/1.html
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Lee Mathews said 9:29AM on 12-01-2009
Are you sure about that? I know their build instructions describe using Ubuntu to compile the source, but is it actually 'based' on the distro?
der_tuxman said 9:32AM on 12-01-2009
At least they work together in public :)
hmm said 11:04AM on 12-01-2009
You, my friend ,have a habit of labelling a lot of software "massive failures" (I have read your other posts). They may be failures, but not massive, not complete. Every Linux distribution out there shares a hell lot of code with Ubuntu, some more some less, And Linux my friend is certainly not a failure.
You need to understand that your comments sometimes change the opinion of many people who genuinely want to try things out and are looking for a review, a objective review.
der_tuxman said 11:10AM on 12-01-2009
I would never call Linux a failure, but some of its distributions certainly are. Did you follow my link at all?
Otafu said 11:01AM on 12-01-2009
Hey, couldnt make it work...
I followed the instructions and the img file doesnt seem to work.
Maybe its because i tried it in a virtual machine?
Dunno.
Anyway... thats about it.
Cheers
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edward said 1:06PM on 12-01-2009
I really enjoyed reading this post.. The way your feelings and personality came through made it much more fun to read. I hope you continue to write posts that feel similar.
-Edward
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DiRT said 1:23PM on 12-01-2009
Annoyingly, the wifi card works and sees my network, but won't actually accept my network key and connect to the router...
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