Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48

jbrodkin writes "Google's Chrome OS makes Web surfing an incredibly pleasant and secure experience, but most of the knocks against it relate to what it can't do — namely, nearly everything traditional desktop operating systems like Windows, Mac and Linux can. The easiest solution might be dual-booting, allowing users to choose either Chrome OS or a Linux distro at startup. Google's Chromium project site is now hosting instructions for booting Ubuntu Linux alongside Chrome OS. The process is cumbersome but indicates that dual-booting Chrome OS should be possible — and hopefully a bit simpler — once Google releases commercially available netbooks in mid-2011."

Re:Can't see this standing

[KublaiKhan]

To give to grandma, so she can have an email appliance just like the one she used to have that hooked up to the TV and the phoneline, back in the late '90s.

Re:How is that a solution?

[Zero__Kelvin]

"How is "dual booting" a solution?"

For the same reason that Peter Paul makes Almond Joy and Mounds [coolest-ho...stumes.com], or people dual boot Windows and Linux: Sometimes you feel like a nut [microsoft.com], and sometimes you don't [distrowatch.com] ;-)

Re:This is hacking now?

[achenaar]

You must have been living in Wales.

Re:This is hacking now?

[Anonymous Coward]

...duel-boot...

This is an awesome typo (hopefully?). I imagine a couple of colonial-era gentlemen, one with a Windows icon prominent on his shirt and the other with a penguin on his going for pistols at dawn to decide which OS gets to boot up.

"You have offended my honor, sir, and I will put an end to your open-source ways!"