Google Chrome OS Enters Public Beta

Chrome OS is a brand new free oper­at­ing sys­tem built around the rev­o­lu­tion­ary Google Chrome browser.

The project aim is to pro­vide a light­weight Linux dis­tri­b­u­tion for the best web brows­ing experience.

Featured soft­ware in Chrome OS:

• GNOME 2.24 desk­top environment
• Google Chrome 4.0.223 web browser
• Google Picasa 2.7 pho­to man­ag­er New!
• OpenOffice​.org 3.0 office suite
• GIMP 2.6 image editor
• Flash Player 10.0 plugin
• and much more!

System require­ments of Chrome OS:

• Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon or new­er; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
• RAM: min. 256 MB
• Hard disk: min. 1 GB
• Graphics card: sup­ports most mod­ern graph­ics cards