Diet Chrome OS is smaller, faster, has better hardware support

Filed under: OS Updates, Google, Open Source, Beta

Now that the Chromium base code for Google Chrome OS is readily available, we're going to be seeing a lot more projects like Diet Chromium popping up.

Built on more recent code than the initial releases we saw popping up as virtual drive images, Diet Chromium is an improvement in many ways. Developer Hexxeh has also stripped out as much unneeded code as possible - resulting in a 300MB download. That's a bit more manageable than the 8GB image released by Dell's engineers.

On top of that, it's got support for a broader range of hardware - meaning you'll be able to run it on all kinds of hardware that Google doesn't plan on supporting in the RTM next year. Your laptop? Definitely. I'm actually writing this post from an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop running Diet Chromium from a USB flash drive. Your desktop quad core behemoth? Yeah, it'll probably run just fine from there, too.

Suspend and resume also worked on my laptop - no need to worry about Google' puny list of 20 or so systems which have partial support.

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