Chromium OS Lime is a lightweight, lightning-fast operating system for your netbook, laptop or even desktop. With the familiar environment of Chromium/Chrome, the entire web is at your fingertips in seconds. HTML5 & Flash are fully supported, allowing you to enjoy the very best that the web has to offer.
What is Lime?
All the bleeding edge features of Vanilla but with the extra hardware support you saw in Flow. Got a device that Vanilla doesn't work properly on? Give Lime a try! Take a look at the list below to find out what's been added into the mix with Lime.
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Here are some key features of "Chromium OS Lime":
Vastly improved hardware support:
Lime enjoys vastly improved hardware support compared to that of Vanilla. Here's a list of the improvements in hardware support:
· Broadcom WiFi - BCM43XX
· Ralink WiFi - RT24XX, RT28XX, RT30XX
· Realtek WiFi - R8187SE, R8712U, RTL73, RTL8180, RTL8187, RTL8192XX
· nVidia GPUs - 6 series and newer
· ATi/AMD GPUs - HD2900 and newer
PAE requirement removed:
· If you were one of the unlucky folks to have a device that didn't support a PAE kernel, you're in luck, this is no longer a requirement with Lime!
Extra plugins as standard:
· Need your fix of Java? Java is now fully supported with Lime! More plugins coming very soon!
You decide what gets added:
· These are just a few of the changes featured in Lime, but there's more! If there's a piece of hardware that we don't support where a Linux driver exists but isn't being shipped, let me know and I'll likely add it! Tweet me information regarding this.
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