Google Chromium OS is available as source code, which you can download and compile by yourself to create an image file compatible with any virtual machine solution, such as VMware or VirtualBox. It’s based on Linux, starts up in seconds and is mainly designed for the Web.

This is exactly the most outstanding feature in Google Chromium OS. In Google Chromium OS everything is web-based, or if you prefer it, in “the Cloud”. It is meant to be used with online web application and you will store all your files online. That’s what makes it so fast and lightweight: the OS doesn’t need to install anything on your computer, because you can access everything online.

This is the perfect Operating System for low-spec computers like notebooks. After logging in with your Gmail account, you are ready to start. Google Chromium OS may look a bit peculiar at first, but it’s also very intuitive. Peculiar because it’s completely different from any OS you may have tried so far – it’s just a web browser –, and intuitive because a web browser is where we spend most of the time on any other OS, so there’s no learning curve at all.

Google Chromium OS is certainly a revolutionary operating system that challenges us users to change our image of computers, and the way we’ve been using them so far.