I wish they would also offer some runtime environment to run Android apps on a normal Linux (e.g. Debian/Arch). And no, I am not talking about some weird, full size VM with a few Gigs of ram overhead. But since the business case seems to be missing, I will probably have to wait forever ;-)
You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
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Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#22I only dived in crouton etc. for a short view, but I think the main reason why I did not continue (besides that it was messy) was the lack of GPU rendering (I believe there was none, at least for my ARM Modell)
Is this going to be different with this approach?
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#23Are there any good reasons why a developer would buy a Chromebook over some other laptop, unless they are developing for the Chromebook itself?
It has been an inexpensive and reliable crouton linux box.
The hardware support has been really nice, as a lot of the usual linux fiddling required to support monitors, etcetera has been much easier with the intermediate chromeOS layer.
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#24Neat! So now you can run JavaScript "IDE" inside a browser inside a Linux VM inside a browser on Linux!
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#25I only dived in crouton etc. for a short view, but I think the main reason why I did not continue (besides that it was messy) was the lack of GPU rendering (I believe there was none, at least for my ARM Modell) Is this going to be different with this approach?
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#26I wonder why they are using a VM running Debian for Linux applications, as Chrome OS is already Linux (Gentoo) based itself.
Probably because the Gentoo ecosystem (package tree, package managers) is build for source packages and not for binary packages.
Do you know if pacman is available on Chrome OS? My understanding is that it's based on Gentoo but it's heavily modified. So adding a different binary-based package manager isn't that crazy of an idea, especially for Google.
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#27Tech journalists, especially, almost always fail to do even a tiny bit of research or due diligence. I mean... Crostini is not "new", it's been on dev channel for months[1]! But this article ending... hilarious icing on the cake.
> "Now, it’s probably only a matter of hours before somebody starts running Windows apps in Chrome OS with the help of the Wine emulator."
Someone should also tell them about running Crossover on Chrome OS via Android[2], which has already been possible for months!
[1] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/87...
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codeweaver...
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been using a Chromebook as my daily driver for nearly 2 years now. Most of the time, I'm either at home or at work, so I just remote log into my development systems. I, personally, don't really need to lug around my entire development environment, though I used to be in that school of thought. So, given that I really just need SSH, a decent Chromebook is cheap (as others mentioned), and can have a decent keybo…
I'm trying to setup something similar - do you use Wake on LAN to turn the computer on? Or do you leave it on? Do you have a static IP or do you use some kind of dynamic DNS service?
No static ip or dyndns needed if you use autossh.
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#29I guess "web apps" are not as successful as Google hoped. There are some great web apps, but they are electron apps ... Maybe bake in "elevated" mode in Chrome so it basically becomes Electron, but with some kernel hooks to limit an apps abilities and let users pick what the app is able to access, network, hdd, etc.
Re: You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been using a Chromebook as my daily driver for nearly 2 years now. Most of the time, I'm either at home or at work, so I just remote log into my development systems. I, personally, don't really need to lug around my entire development environment, though I used to be in that school of thought. So, given that I really just need SSH, a decent Chromebook is cheap (as others mentioned), and can have a decent keybo…
I'm trying to setup something similar - do you use Wake on LAN to turn the computer on? Or do you leave it on? Do you have a static IP or do you use some kind of dynamic DNS service?
My workstations are on 24/7 (the one at home runs some other services like a media server) with static IP addresses.