Hackers get Ubuntu Linux booting alongside Google's Chrome OS
I've been testing out a prototype of Google's Chrome OS laptop for about a week now, and while I love certain things about the device my mind keeps coming back to the fact that it would be so much nicer if it could boot a "real" operating system as well.
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. You want a file system? You want to install a piece of software that runs offline and outside the browser? Not on Chrome OS.
But how great would it be if you could choose either Chrome OS or a regular operating system each time the device starts up? You can easily install Linux alongside Windows, so why not a traditional Linux distro alongside Chrome OS, which runs Linux underneath the Web browser anyway?
