What are the chances of ChromeOS becoming a general purpose OS that can be in...

Julian Bond - 2013-10-19 08:00:40+0000 - Updated: 2013-10-19 08:00:40+0000

What are the chances of ChromeOS becoming a general purpose OS that can be installed on virtually any PC and/or run as a liveCD from CD/DVD/USB? Is this actually desirable?

At the moment it kind of works but has quite a few problems.
- Hard coded device letter, is the boot device /dev/sdb3 or /dev/sdc3 ?
- Endless Repairing State partition-reboot cycles
- Problems with hardware support
- Missing proprietary code, eg MP3, Flash support

What I'm looking for is the ability to put my complete Chrome environment on a USB stick that can be used to boot any (or at least almost all) PCs.

There's a couple of options like Chrome as a Portable App or Chrome on top of Puppy Linux that kind of get there, but what I'd really like is ChromeOS on a USB stick.

Anthony Wilcox - 2013-10-19 08:14:27+0000

NaCl (Native Client) males it possible but it hasn't used to it's full potential.

Julian Bond - 2013-10-19 09:07:43+0000

+Robert Leland Don't think I understand. How would NaCl help here?

Anthony Wilcox - 2013-10-19 09:12:34+0000

It allows for websites to access the hardware using stuff like C or C++ while still being sandboxed. As well allow for programs like Photoshop (as an example) to run on Chrome OS.

Julian Bond - 2013-10-19 09:46:44+0000

Um. OK. That's all nice, but I'm not sure how that helps make Chromium-OS run more easily on more hardware as a LiveCD.

And there's always things like Crouton to make Linux bits available outside the browser.

Anthony Wilcox - 2013-10-19 09:48:51+0000 - Updated: 2013-10-19 09:49:28+0000

Endless Repairing State partition isn't possible without access to the hardware itself. Unless I misread, then forgive me. Been a long weak.

Julian Bond - 2013-10-19 09:51:52+0000

Um. My problem with that is that I can't get ChromiumOS to boot cleanly from a USB stick. It starts, says, repairing... for 5 seconds, reboots, and then does it again. Repeat ad inifinitum, with no solution. see here.
https://plus.google.com/106416716945076707395/posts/LU5HNkTyRzD