to date have been largely , though of course the details of the specific hardware in the devices right now won't matter much in the long run.

What's been particularly interesting, though, is that while the world awaits the arrival of official Chrome OS notebooks, a number of enterprising technophiles have already found a way--and a reason--to add Linux to these early devices.

Looking Beyond the Browser

Linux aficionados, of course, have a long history of replacing factory-installed operating systems--Windows, especially--with a instead. In the case of , there are countless good reasons to do so.

Such moves may be for practical or ethical reasons, but in the case of the Chrome OS notebook, it's clear from reviews that there are some things the CR-48 just isn't designed for--such as, most things outside the browser.