This morning, a commenter on Brad's post regarding the now debunked beyond reasonable doubt video "demo" of Google Chrome OS said "Sure is fake why don't you download and boot it up..." and offered a URL to the download.

What the hell, I'll bite. I followed the link.

The first thing I noticed is that the link doesn't point to a Google Code project. That's kind of odd, since all of Google's other open source goodies are hosted there - like Chromium, for example. I'll play along anyway. I clicked through and downloaded the torrent from Mininova.

What's provided is a tarballed VMWare machine image. Built with SUSE studio. ORLY?

Upon loading the machine, I'm given a pretty standard (though Chrome-themed) Grub loader. The failsafe entry made me chuckle, because it's safe to assume that this thing is fail. Moving on!

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