Want to give Chromium OS a try, but don’t have a spare 4GB USB stick lying around? Fear not as a new ‘diet’ build of Chromium OS (the open-source project upon which Google Chrome OS is based ...

To put these releases in a historical context, Google Chrome was first released in September 2008. Chrome OS was first released in June 2011, and the first Chromebooks hit the market on February 2013.

It really depends on what the installer did. Unfortunately, I have no experience with Chromium so I can't say. Given that the OS is designed for everything to be stored "in the cloud" then it is ...

But up until recently if you’ve wanted to install Chrome OS on a computer you already had, then you needed to either rely on the open source Chromium OS or a third-party tool like CloudReady.

Chrome OS Flex is supposed to breathe in new life into old hardware, with Google saying that it can run efficiently on devices as old as 13 years, but just like CloudReady, there will be a number ...

Chromium OS hacker Hexxeh has been working on porting the open source version of Google’s Chrome operating system to run on the $35 Raspberry Pi computer. While it’s still a work in progress ...

While Google is bringing Chrome OS to tablet devices, Xi3 Corporation announced its ChromiumPC Modular Computer, the world's first desktop computer to run the operating system.

Apparently, though, the folks developing Chromium OS (Chrome OS’s open-source sibling) have other plans. Engadget dug up a video of an experimental version of Chromium OS specially tuned for ...

The Chromium project allows us to peek at the development of upcoming Chrome OS features. It's usually a reliable way to catch a glimpse of the future, but it's not a sure thing.