I knew that it was going to be a Browser-based OS like none has ever been before but judging by this first release I'm still a bit disappointed.
Chrome OS:
With the help of another colleague and trying out random combinations on the keyboard (banging my head against it for example) I found out how to get to the terminal. You just have to press Ctrl+Alt+T. The Concept of multiple Sessions like normal Linux Distributions have has been dropped. The Terminal goes full-screen and as you can see the "uname" command tells you absolutely nothing about this OS that you shouldn't already know as soon as you're enough of a freak to even bother searching for the Terminal. Other than that it's interesting that the "man" command suggested at the top isn't even available. And I was kind enough to give you a directory listing of the root directory just so this screenshot wouldn't use too little space.
Conclusion:
So while this is a nice Gadget to have it provides the user with absolutely no capabilities beyond what Web 2.0 (as we call it) has to offer. Some might say this is sufficient. I say it's not. Right now it isn't possible to change the Screen Resolution of Chrome OS over the menu and I didn't find any config-files i could edit to change it manually. Now that I "know" that Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu using Gnome (at least that's what I hear) I could try to find the config-file once more. But I'm just not that much of a geek. I feel I have enough of an idea right now of what Chrome OS is going to be as soon as it's finished. In the end it's just another tool for Google to grab its users by the chest and make them be part of their huge scheme of collecting information no matter if it's useful or not. So I think it would be cool to log into the OS without a Google Account. Other than that I have no requests towards the final product, probably because I won't be using it natively anyways.
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