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Internships are available. But you're late. You wanted to apply over winter for the summer internships. It's possible that you could get a later in the year internship at this point, but it could interfere with your attending school, depending on where and what hours and how many hours were expected.

Almost all CS internships pay.

Also, don't worry about how much school you have, if you are good at what you do; we had to get special dispensation for it, but we had Hexxeh (Liam McLoughlin) as an intern on the ChromeOS team at Google, and he had not graduated high school at the time. On the other hand, he was most definitely good at what he did, which included running the only external ChromeOS (ChromiumOS) buikd and distribution site since he was about 16. See: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/

The less outstanding you are, the more education you'll have to have to get many internships, so ... be outstanding, and apply next year.

Here you go: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/

I was going to say, a dedicated Chrome OS boot.

I think one of the issues is maintenance, submitter is 2,500 miles away. So it's going to be hard to support a windows laptop.

If you want to test drive chrome-os you might try one of these builds

  http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/

I just did with a usb stick install on my netbook.
If you have a Linux install you can kind of fake it with this

http://www.necopost.com/2012/06/how-to-use-google-chrome-like-chrome-os.html

The latter might be good for my ubuntu install on my Android tablet.
You can even try chrome os in virtualbox

If you consider it "Linux".

http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/

There are plenty of fastbooting linux OS's. You can take chronium or some minimal linux distro. However these will only do 80% of the things you need. You need a FAT OS to do the last 20%, which is different for everyone.

But try before you decide.

PS, with good power management a 1 Gig winOS can wake from sleep state very fast. which is in the same ballpark as hibrenation support on a droid

http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/vanilla.php will prove a (Oracle)VirtualBox image & other virtuals for testing to see what it looks like

Uh, Flash? Here.

IMO ChromeOS is only getting attention because people believes that everything that comes from Google is cool. But when I tried ChromeOS, I experience the same sensation I had when I tried Wave.

Same here. I even compiled it after trying the hexxeh binary in the hope that hexxeh had somehow disable the cool part of chromeos.

I really like all of google's products and really wish I could afford an android phone, but the chromeos is very disapointing.

I prefer jolicloud if I need to live in a cloud.

That said, I can see this being useful in setting where everything is internet based apps (like a library or kiosk.) I imagine the hardware requirements would be real low.

ChromeOS is basically a Linux distro that only has a browser. The Chrome browser is the desktop shell, it can't be minimized and it has a small systray with battery and network icons instead of maximize/minimize buttons. And that's it (really).

I agree with the guy from TFA, ChromeOS is not interesting because...well, the average Linux distro can also browse the web and nobody is adopting it massively because of that. IMO ChromeOS is only getting attention because people believes that everything that comes from Google is cool. But when I tried ChromeOS, I experience the same sensation I had when I tried Wave. Why use ChromeOS, which is just a browser, when you can use Android which also has a browser and it also has a lot of cool Android apps and games?

I'd like to try it out. Hmm, no .img on http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os . There's a Hexxeh blogging about it at http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ , but the most recent build from his "bleeding edge, untested!" series at http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/vanilla.php is "Version 0.8.71.rdb7d4e77, built on 28th of October 2010."

I'd like to try it out. Hmm, no .img on http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os . There's a Hexxeh blogging about it at http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ , but the most recent build from his "bleeding edge, untested!" series at http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/vanilla.php is "Version 0.8.71.rdb7d4e77, built on 28th of October 2010."

http://hexxeh.net/?p=328117605 Sept 28th.

http://blog.hexxeh.net/

Until Google announces otherwise, I'd assume it is still being developed and will be released on schedule this Autumn.

If you want to try an unofficial build of it you can get one here.

If crapware won't install on your computer, don't install the crapware. I'm sure there's plenty of other choices out there.

Then give it a try: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/

At this stage (nconsidering it's a one-man show) you still need to roll your own: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/04/how-to-convert-hexxehs-chrome-os-build-image-to-a-virtualbox-v/

Conversion is broken in Zero, you'll need to download Cherry for that, I'm working on it, but like you said, one man show and I have college too. :/ http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ChromeOS-Cherry.torrent for the cherry build. Thanks for the slashdotting, guys. :D