Google Announced Chrome Operating System

While the entertainment industry is still talking about Michael Jackson’s memorial, the tech world is rocked with the latest announcement made by Google:

“…today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”

Google Chrome OS is aimed at people who spend most of their time on the web and will initially be targeted at netbooks. They said that it will be extremely lightweight and fast just like the Chrome web browser, and it will be very secure.

As expected, Google Chrome OS will utilize the Linux kernel with a new windowing system on top of it.

With Google’s plan to release Chrome OS as open source software, should we be happy or sad?

How about you our dear readers? Share with us your thoughts via comment. By the way, you can read the full release announcement HERE (googleblog)

How to create bootable pendrive linux ?

A Bootable Pendrive (Live USB drive) can be created using an opensource utility called UNetbootin . It is just 3.8 MB utility available for both windows and Linux.

Unetbootin screenshot

UNetbootin provides a GUI to create Live USB drives from ISO files.To create a Live USB using UNetbootin, download an ISO file(of Linux Live CD), select it under UNetbootin’s “diskimage” option, and specify your target USB disk under “Drive:”.After pressing OK, wait as the ISO is extracted to your USB drive; once done, you will have a bootable Linux USB drive.Restart your computer and select boot device as USB device.
If you don’t have the ISO files instead of “Diskimage” option select the distribution and version from the first option. This will directly download the ISO files from internet.

Requirements
512 MB or larger one depending on the size of the ISO file formatted  as FAT32.
Some older BIOS software does not support USB boot device. Update your BIOS software.

Downloads
Home Page   [http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net]
Download Windows version
Download Linux version

More information is available at www.pendrivelinux.com