Google may be working on adding native support for Chromecast to their Linux-based operating system Chrome OS. The company has added an option for ‘casting’ to the system settings area (hat tip to Brandon Giesing who spotted it and posted a screenshot on his Google+ page).

The casting option has been added to the ‘Canary’ channel of Chrome OS. Like any open source project there are different branches of Chrome OS; mainly there are three branches: stable, beta and dev. Stable channel is fully tested and runs on all Chrome devices by default; it receives a major release update every 6 weeks. Beta offers a sneak peak into the upcoming features with minimum risk; betas become stable once they are fully tested. Dev gets updates quickly and it shows what Google is working on at the moment. There is one more channel called ‘canary builds’ which is a bleeding edge channel. It’s released daily as soon as it gets built.

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