Google launch this year chrome book, but it comes with some selected laptop , but now you can make your own laptop a chrome book or how to install chrome os in a laptop or pc.Here is a little post , hope you like it.
Featured software in Chrome OS Linux:
Linux kernel 2.6.37
GNOME 2.32 desktop environment
Experimental GNOME Shell desktop environment
Google Chrome 17.0.932 web browser New!
Google Music Manager 1.0 New!
Google Picasa 3.0 photo manager
LibreOffice 3.3 office suite
GIMP 2.6 image editor
Wine 1.3 Windows emulator
Cheese 2.32 webcam app
Pidgin 2.7 instant messenger
Dashboard with social toolbar
Control Center
and much more!
To switch to GNOME Shell, just go to Terminal and type: gnome-shell --replace or choose it at logon.
System requirements of Chrome OS Linux:
Processor: Intel Pentium, Atom, Xeon or newer; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
RAM: min. 256 MB
Hard disk: min. 1 GB
Graphics card: supports most modern graphics cards
Just download the iso file and burn it using nero.Then boot your cd and wait until it is loaded and click Live Installer icon on the desktop. Enter the root password and follow the wizard.The root password is "root". Here is a video to guide you...
If you have a duel-boot system with windows then you should know that when you on your PC Linux Boot loader appears first then window.So if you want to remove Linux then you should remove the Linux boot loader first then then partition of Linux.Many of you just delete the Linux Partition and result a corrupted PC.So what you have to do is just need a boot cd of linux or the cd that you used to install Windows in PC.
This tutorial will help you in completely removing Linux from a dual-boot system:
1. First you'll need to boot using Windows setup CD. You can use Windows 98 Setup CD or Windows 2000, XP, 2003 CD or Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 DVD.
A. Using Windows 98 CD:
Boot into Command Prompt and provide following command:
fdisk /MBR
Now exit from command prompt by typing Exit and press Enter.
B. Using Windows 2000, XP, 2003 CD:
Enter into "Recovery Console" by pressing "R", select your Windows installation and enter administrator password. Now provide following command:
fixmbr
Press "Y" to confirm and type Exit to exit from recovery console.
C. Using Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 DVD:
Boot using setup DVD and click on "Repair Computer" link, then click on "Command Prompt". Now navigate to your DVD drive using CD command and at last provide following command:
bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr
Exit from Command prompt and restart your system.
2. The above commands will remove the Linux boot loader from startup and you'll be able to directly boot into Windows.
3. If you have not deleted Linux partitions, then you can delete them using "Disk Manager" tool in Windows.