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Chrome OS 12 — AKA: The Shipping Version — Hits Beta

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40 pointsjemeshsu10 comments

The key feature was not even mentioned but alluded to. If you use your ChromeBook everyday you will never ever hear about new versions, new features, or even think to read a story like this again. It will just be, and little things will get better and you will be pleasantly surprised and move on with your day.

I've been running on the dev channel here since I got m CR-48 and I didn't even know I was running version 12 or anything but here I was. I've been getting regular updates and have been only seeing minor changes from time to time.

That is the key feature.

You never have to reboot for an update? If you do, than it's little different from Windows' auto-update, which downloads and installs in the background. Also, Chrome OS is based on Gentoo, and I doubt Gentoo will never need an update again.

It does sometime require a reboot; an almost instant reboot.

Edit: I get your point though I hate reboots and the CR-48 is not perfect. But its quickly becoming my main driver. Just as soon as I can afford unlimited 3G.

It actually is possible to upgrade the kernel without rebooting, with a system like ksplice. http://www.ksplice.com/

Im not sure it has "hit beta". Im running a CR-48 on the beta channel, and I'm up to date running 0.11.257.91. Switching to the dev channel doesn't seem to provide 0.12 when I hit update.

I'm on dev with

Chrome OS 0.12.433.38 (Official Build) dev-channel x86-mario Google Chrome 12.0.742.50

Maybe need to catch up a few releases first.

You can't just switch to the dev channel and immediately update. You need to wait until the next dev version releases to download it.

If the dev version is greater then the currently installed beta version you can.

This could very well be true but I would've assumed that the dev version is always greater than the beta version? I just remember having to wait around 3 days before I could download a dev version after I switched.

Yes. Dev should always be greater then beta. In the earlier days when everything was unstable enough there might not have been much of a difference at times. It was pretty much instantaneous for me both with my Cr-48 and with the Chrome browser.

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