Google says its project to run Chrome OS alongside Android was just a fun proof of concept instead of something they're shipping.
  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The fastest Google product kill right there.

    Could have been a great Dex alternative.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    164·
    6 months ago

    Wait that would have been huge. Chrome os is linux based so if phones supported it it would be partial linux support basically.

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        ChromeOS is Gentoo-based and does use the Linux kernel, but everything in the userspace has little to do with the Linux desktop besides Crostini, which is just a Debian container.

        That’s unlike Android, whose kernel derives itself from a heavily gutted version of the Linux kernel, redesigned to support closed source binary blob drivers provided by device manufacturers and with low level support for the Dalvik JVM. Its API has little to do with the mainstream Linux kernel.