If your using Ubuntu you can now start using Chrome, or Chromium as its known amongst the linux community. Daily builds of Chromium can be got from here.

You’ll need to add the following repositories to get Chromium:

Note: Substitute interpid with jaunty or hardy as needed!

Then you can then install it by opening a terminal and do the following command:

Of course this is still in Pre-Alpha so make sure to keep another browser installed!

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

So finally we know Google has been going into the Operating System market. This has been on the tables for Google for quite a long time, we’ve all discussed the pro’s and cons of it. But did any of expect a netbook os?

I wonder will it be Linux based. And how similar will it be to ‘GOS‘ ?