Flow is the latest in the line of Hexxeh's hugely popular ChromiumOS builds. Flow is the most exciting version yet, bringing even more hardware support, an auto-updater, webcam support and an improved application menu & directory. All this, requires only a 2GB USB drive (download size is 327MB)
After trying out Flow on an USB stick I decided install it along side of my Ubuntu installation. Following the directions from the wiki "How to add ChromiumOS to existing Ubuntu install" I was able to boot and run Flow from the hard drive of my Eee PC 1000. When I added boot directions to grub the first time I did not have the correct hard drive number so Flow would not boot. After changing "set root=(hd0,2)" to "set root=(hd1,2)" Flow booted with no problem. Flow worked well with my hardware except for the video camera, this is noted in the wiki, no problems speed wise. After a short time of use I decided I was not Flow was not for me. I am still interested to see what the first release of Chrome OS will be like and to see what type of hardware it comes out on.
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