[Gllug] Introducing the Google Chrome OS

[John Winters]

Hari Sekhon wrote:
[snip]
> Last night I had to get my laptop up and running for my wife to use it 
> in bed, getting past 5 different passwords through  
> boot/encryption/login before getting to a browser on my highly 
> customized and secure linux laptop leaves me gagging for an OS that has 
> nothing on it but a browser, switches on it seconds and doesn't require 
> much if any patching or security thoughts.

I remember seeing a laptop advertised recently (by Dell?) which had a
dual-boot configuration - an instant-on Linux installation for web
browsing and then a Windows installation for more serious use.
Obviously the first thing I thought of was to replace the Windows
installation with a second full-featured Linux installation.  Too
expensive to buy one just to experiment though.

The Acer Aspire Revo which I bought had something similar.  When you
switched it on it loaded something called RevoBoot which provided a very
simple browsing environment (built on a Linux kernel and Firefox I
believe) and then the option to boot into the installed OS (which wasn't
installed).  The documentation supplied however only gave details on how
to put Windows in the remaining slot so I scrubbed the whole lot and
installed Linux.

Both however seem to be addressing the issue which you raise.

John
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