Take the Lightning fast Chrome OS in your pocket

Not carrying Laptop and worried about the spyware and other trojans in a shared computer?. Well, there is an easy way out. Use bootable OS in a removable media. Of course lot of and most of the Linux flavours offers an option to boot and work directly from the CD. However the disadvantage is that we may not be able to store the customisation or data on to the CDs. Also the content may be large and may take quite some time for booting. 

The latest ChromiumOS booted from a USB can help in this regard. The ChromiumOS is a lightweight, lightening-fast operating system by google for your netbook, laptop or even desktop. With the familiar environment of Chromium/Chrome, the entire web is at your fingertips in seconds. HTML5 is fully supported, allowing you to enjoy the very best that the web has to offer. Basically it is a web browser with mostly all the applications cloud based. The OS is based on the fact that most of the people use the computer mainly for one application - Web browsing. Also the industry is moving applications to cloud based and most of the common applications such as the office package, picture editors, games are all available as web apps. Considering this the Google removed all add-ons and extras from the OS and this makes the system lightening fast as such the booting takes on few seconds. 

A programming geek, known under the name Hexxeh have ported the Chromium OS to run it live from the USB drive. Eventhough it’s not an officially supported one, it works pretty good on most computers. The build is available on thier website - http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ as an image (*.img) file. All you have to do is to download the this file, write it to a USB using an image writing tool. Insert the USB to the port, boot and its ready. The detailed instruction preparing the drive is available in the website