Google Chrome OS

Google's announcement of their developing the Chrome browser based, fast and lite weight operating system sounded interesting to me. Initially it will be designed to run on netbooks. The program is being developed open source, so future applications and add on software should be extensive. Regretfully Chrome OS won't be available for about a year.
While Chrome is being developed, the chromium open source project is busy developing similar projects. Thanks to the folks at gdgt.com I was able to get a copy of the Chromium OS for the Asus netbooks. I'm sure over the next few weeks there will be versions out for other netbooks.
It is my understanding that the OS will only run on a solid state drive. At this point in time most users are booting it from a usb flash drive. After following the instructions from the gdgt site I could not get chromium to copy to either of my 4 gb flash drives. The only thing I can see that might have been wrong is my 4 gb flash drives were actually a bit smaller than 4 gb. Not one to give up easily, I tried setting up an SD card to run it. Absolutely no problems setting it up. I rebooted into the sd drive and chromium loaded without incident.
While chromium is in the very early development stages, it is a reliable workable operating system. My company utilizes cloud storage of documents in conjunction with Google Docs so the OS works great in that environment. I'm looking forward to seeing Chromium grow. As time goes on, added plug in applications will make it more versatile. As it is now, if you are comfortable working in the Chrome browser you will be right at home with the operating system.
I currently have Chromium installed on SD cards in both my Asus 1005HA and my Asus 900HA and it is working great. When I boot the netbooks up, I hit the Escape key and it gives me the option to boot into windows 7 off of the hard drive or Chromium off of the SD card. I consider that the best of both worlds.
If you want to run Chromium on your Asus netbooks, click here for 3 easy steps to chromium os on an Asus netbook .
It may also work on similar netbooks. It would take minimal effort to find out.