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Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download
Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. It’s completely free, though you’ll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X installation to make the magic happen. Naturally, we’ve been considerate enough to provide download links for everything you’ll require at the source below, so get those fingers clicking. We’ve already successfully installed the browser-based OS and will soon be sharing our own hands-on thoughts, but if you beat us to it, spill your insight in the comments below. We do read ‘em, you know.

Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hands-on: Hulu Desktop for Linux beta a big resource hog

Hulu Desktop was only available for Windows and Mac OS X when it launched in May. This week, the popular streaming video service has finally brought its experimental desktop player to the Linux platform. Installation packages are available for download from the Hulu Labs website.

I tested Hulu Desktop on Ubuntu 9.04 with Flash 10 on my quad-core desktop computer. The program is built almost entirely with Flash and obviously doesn’t use any native widget frameworks. Adobe’s Flash implementation for Linux is lousy, so I began my tests with relatively low expectations. As expected, Hulu Desktop is extremely resource intensive on the Linux platform. It uses significantly more memory and processor power than Totem when playing full-screen video content. Aside from occasional stuttering, video playback performance was adequate when I was not running any other resource-intensive tasks in the background.

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