Hackers puts the shine on Chrome OS 10 Dec 2009, 0734 hrs IST, Sriram Sharma, MUMBAI MIRROR   Print     EMail       Share   Save   Comment Text: Less than two weeks ago, the source code for Google’s Chrome OS was released on November 19, 2009 under open source licensing as Chromium OS. It took less than a day, for the first hacked Chrome OS developer build to go live on the Internet.