Welcome to life at programming's cutting edge. Personally, I run Chrome OS hard drive images on VirtualBox on one of my Dell Inspiron 530S test boxes.

You can do it from inside VirtualBox, too, if you don't have a Linux build environment set up. The next step is to burn Hexxeh's Chrome OS image onto your USB memory stick.

Windows/Mac/Linux: The official, actually-made-by-Google Chrome OS won't hit netbooks until late 2010, but you can try out a custom-built Linux distri ...