You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

Post by grover_hartmann » Wed, May 09, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

crispinb wrote: post #164

grover_hartmann wrote: post #161

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Yes, FOSS saving a close source platform, what's news? You are completely missing the point, my point was that Apple is so bad of a company that they completely refuse to ship with GPLv3 software, they are nothing but a bunch of immoral fascists. Take take take, but never give anything back. The GNU project did everything right by moving to GPLv3. And last time I checked, brew doesn't work so well when you have multi…

> they are nothing but a bunch of immoral fascists. Yep. The Apple death count must be nearing that of WWII by now surely.

Post by jacksmith21006 » Wed, May 09, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

magissima wrote: post #52

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apt-get is still the golden standard for installing apps on Linux because of its dependency resolution system, and being able to "sudo apt-get install " is a core use-case for end-users (i.e. students who are learning how to use Linux / code for the first time). Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on Chrome OS.

Genuinely asking, what makes apt-get that much better than other package managers? Outside of Slackware I think good dependency resolution is pretty much universal at this point, and I can't say I've ever noticed any major problems with pacman, for instance.

Post by jacksmith21006 » Wed, May 09, 2018, 4:07 PM UTC

williamstein wrote: post #80

Will this make it possible to run Docker in a Chromebook? With Crouton, which is just a chroot, you can't run Docker at all (without changing the ChromeOS kernel), and can only run rkt containers. If this new Linux apps support really runs in a Debian KVM virtual machine, then maybe it will be possible to run Docker in that, which would be a massive advantage over what crouton provides. Anybody know?

Post by jacksmith21006 » Wed, May 09, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

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MacBooks are out for me now that they have the touchbar and bad keyboard. I currently use a ThinkPad and it's pretty good, but the touchpad is mediocre at best. I think a ChromeBook with really first class support for Linux apps is very compelling. I run Linux in a VM on Windows 10 on my ThinkPad and it's a great setup. A ChromeBook would be a very similar setup but probably with better native OS integration (for exa…

You mean pixelbook, $300 chromebooks would obviously be of poor build quality; although i am not sure of the hardware quality of pixelbook either. For me a thinkpad works pretty well for a linux machine.

Post by jacksmith21006 » Wed, May 09, 2018, 4:11 PM UTC

fergie wrote: post #209

Does this mean that you can just open a bash shell and start doing bash stuff? If so that is fantastic, and is maybe enough to get me back onto a Chromebook.