It’s Flow time…

by on Feb.15, 2010, under ChromiumOS

ChromiumOS Flow
At long last, Flow is ready. After much lost sleep and frustration it’s finally ready for you all to enjoy. Just incase you don’t know already, here’s a quick rundown of what we’ll be shipping. Oh, and note the last feature: a little bonus for you that I may have omitted to mention earlier.

  • User-customisable menus (rearrange, add, delete apps on your own menu)
  • Automatic updates via the Velocity engine (with an all new interface from what you saw in the BETA, it’s now been integrated into the browser)
  • nVidia GPU support (this includes ION, and it’s fully hardware accelerated)
  • Realtek RTL8187SE support (RTL8192E is coming as an update soon)
  • Audio fix
  • Flash fix
  • Bookmark Sync fix
  • Power indicator fix (as long as it worked in Cherry)
  • Battery life improvements
  • Increased image size to 2GB (1GB was becoming too restrictive, needed to do this to add more hardware support, sorry!)
  • Webcam support (to test this, right click on a YouTube video and then click settings)

One feature that didn’t make the cut this time, is the new login screen. There’s quite a bit we need to do with that before we can ship it, and I just couldn’t get it all done in time and still get this release out in a reasonable timeframe (we were late already). I spent pretty much all of today tweaking the nVidia support and working to make sure it was a smooth as ride as possible moving between an Intel GPU device and a nVidia GPU device.

The nVidia support, is well, pretty awesome. The only nVidia hardware I had available to test for myself was my desktop, running a 9800GTX. This setup had no issue at all powering through 720P and 1080P YouTube content.

The applications directory doesn’t have too many apps right now, however soon I will be taking submissions for new applications to be added to this directory for users to add. If you’d like to get a headstart on this, you will need to produce/find a 128×128 transparently backed PNG icon for the app. It should blend in with the existing icons as best as possible, or it may not be accepted.

You can find the release on the main site here.

I’ll update this blog post more tomorrow once I’ve had some sleep, just wanted to get this to you as soon as it was ready.

Lastly, some credits and messages of thanks:

  • Cosmic Duck for producing the artwork and redesigned website
  • redpig for helping me with ChromiumOS build related topics
  • mdwittenberg for his work on the wiki (and everyone else who contributed)
  • egrep, inferno10681, Billiam, aikidoka for being excellent testers
  • The #chromium-os IRC channel on Freenode for all their help and assistance
  • The ChromiumOS development team for producing such an amazing operating system

200 Comments for this entry

  • Psychlone
    October 12th, 2010 on 6:42 pm

    Just created a new FlowOS USB, went to boot it up and was met with a logon screen that won’t except ANYTHING I type.
    I’ve tried 5 different gmail accounts that I have, along with a couple live.com email accounts – but nothing will let me in.

    I also have a question on functionality: Is there a place that I can learn to add my own applications to this stick? I have a ton of apps for my computer repair business that I use daily that I would love to figure out how to use with FlowOS!

  • zach
    October 23rd, 2010 on 6:55 pm

    i just want a file that is already to boot to windows

  • Notebook Reviews
    October 28th, 2010 on 6:31 am

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    Thanks fot this information.

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  • olli119
    November 3rd, 2010 on 8:33 am

    Hi all,

    have a problem with flow. Using the Huawei 585 mifi
    router. When connected, flow doesn’t show the “indexf.asp” page. Works with Windows, Linux Slax, Debian, Firefox but also with Chrome browser under??

    Thanks in advance to anyone who can give a useful tip.

    Olli

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    November 8th, 2010 on 2:34 pm

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  • Shaunak
    November 21st, 2010 on 2:25 pm

    Hey Hexxeh,

    The instructions in your wiki on how to open the app page in any computer is not working.
    It says UCID blocked or invalid. Contact Hexxeh for help

  • Bas
    December 8th, 2010 on 2:11 pm

    I made a flow usb drive, but when I select to boot from usb drive, I get a black screen with a white underscore going on and off in the upper left corner and thats all that happens, after 30 minutes nothing happened, and my laptop is not old at all, a dell studio 15 with i5. plz reply to: baskloet789@gmail.com

  • Suave
    December 9th, 2010 on 4:16 pm

    Hey Psychlone,

    Your network connection isn’t working properly. I had to set the vmware network adapter to bridged mode before mine worked. I haven’t installed the usb version but check all of your network settings to ensure you can login to your google account.
    ~suave~

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  • HR
    December 11th, 2010 on 1:48 pm

    Id like to know if your scripts are available outside of your build.. Ive seen the new login in the vanilla chromos and I’d love to get your app menu into that. Possibly when is your next release to be?

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  • Justin
    January 17th, 2011 on 11:22 pm

    Using vmware image it says UCID blocked… =/ when I click for the apps button upper left.

  • Terry
    January 23rd, 2011 on 11:43 pm

    I am also getting the UCID blocked error.

  • Leo
    January 26th, 2011 on 2:18 am

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  • blakedeMarcy
    January 31st, 2011 on 2:51 am

    Why thank you, Hexxeh!

    Im very pleased with this. Ive been looking into this whole chrome os thing since it was announced, and i found your website way back in december. i downloaded flow last week but, untill today, i was much too lazy to get it going. ive finally ponied up to the task and have it running right now live from my usb :) im running this on a compaq presario cq56-109wm 15.6 inch notebook. with this same computer i get amazing out-of-the box compatibility with any linux distro ive ever tried, and Flow lives up to that legacy with a few minor hiccups:

    -App menu doesnt exactly function…… it says “UCID blocked or invalid. If you believe you are seeing this in error, try rebooting and then try again. If it still doesn’t work, contact Hexxeh.” when i open it. i would love some pointers on this to get it working

    -builtin laptop speakers dont work, i have to use 3.5mm headphone jack for audio purposes. no biggie

    -no support for builtin wireless card, however it works just fine with a usb network adaptor. this dowsnt bother me at all

    everything else works great!

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  • Roy
    February 8th, 2011 on 8:48 pm

    I downloaded Flow. Very fast bootup time! Surprising…

    The Flow icon gives an error: UCID blocked. Very annoying. Please help! I use Flow on an USB-stick with a HP Compaq laptop.

    BTW my gmail credentials are not stored to use it while logging in.

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