Because of this, it starts really fast and comprises only of the aforementioned browser, which has been integrated with a top panel that displays the Wi-Fi and battery status, as well as the current time. This is not the first, and most probably not the last operating system built around a web browser, in this case Chromium. An operating system built around the Chromium web browser Supported hardwareĬhromium OS comes with improved hardware support for Broadcom Wi-Fi cards, including BCM43XX, Ralink Wi-Fi cards, including RT24XX, RT28XX and RT30XX, Realtek Wi-Fi cards, including R8187SE, R8712U, RTL73, RTL8180, RTL8187 and RTL8192XX, Nvidia GPUs 6 series and newer, as well as ATi/AMD GPUs like Radeon HD2900 and newer. This special Linux OS is distributed for free as virtual appliances, supporting the VirtualBox and VMware virtualization programs, as well as an IMG image that must be written on a USB thumb drive of 1GB or higher capacity in order to boot it from the BIOS of a computer. Distributed for free as virtual appliances and USB images
It is built around the Chromium web browser.
Chromium OS is an open-source and completely free Linux kernel-based operating system that tries to mimic the appearance and functionality of the original Chrome OS developed by Google.
