Chrome OS just installed!
Just finished the long old process of building Chrome OS, and the moment of installing the image on a dev machine is awaiting me tomorrow; if all goes well!
So far it’s taken around 6 hours to install all the prerequisits, sync & build the code and create an image. The actual build took just over two hours on a 64bit single core virtual machine. Next time I will add a few extra cores in aid of speeding the process up; the project is very active so I will need to do this fairly regularly.
I’m going to be interested in seeing the speed of the system first hand. The official videos demonstrate the boot sequence taking 7 seconds from the power button being pressed to the login screen appearing; something I’m finding a little hard to comprehend seeing as the bios load normally takes longer than this on most machines. Hopefully I can get my own video done too.
Anyway, it will be fun to have a look at the new concepts, and start developing some apps for it.
Will keep you all posted!
