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The rumors expected this to run ChromeOS because its codename is apparently Ryu. If that's true, there are still changes being pushed to the ChromeOS codebase
by bsimpson 11y ago
The rumors expected this to run ChromeOS because its codename is apparently Ryu. If that's true, there are still changes being pushed to the ChromeOS codebase regarding this device:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/18295c9bb2649b6e0b4a177d8e6c409ed9e9ba60 https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/1...
which tells me there's still more to know about this device. I'm curious what it is. Even though I'm typing this on my first generation Pixel, is there really enough of a difference between a Chromebook and Chrome for Android to justify porting both OSes to the same piece of hardware?
- bergie 11y agoDevtools and Crouton would make this a pretty interesting device
- zmmmmm 11y agoKey problem is it's ARM and not Intel processor. How much of a real developer experience a crouton style solution enables on ARM, I'm not sure. But I'm guessing it's a lot more limited.
- voltagex_ 11y agoLimited in what respect? There's plenty of Linux distros which run on ARM/ARM64.
- zmmmmm 11y agoI guess I was only referring to being able to install anything precompiled for Intel linux, which would include just about any proprietary software. I had a few problems running things in my past attempts with this (running Ubuntu on an Android tablet). However I was surprised to see from Googling around that people have indeed now got most common dev tools working on the Samsung ARM chromebook so I might be completely wrong about it
- chadzawistowski 11y agoAs voltagex_ pointed out you will have no problem with open-source packages, but I imagine you could try QEMU for running proprietary x86 bits in a pinch.
- ridiculous_fish 11y agoLimited in two respects: 1. The lack of a pointing device 2. Missing keys on the keyboard: escape, tilde, brackets. Are there Linux distros that work well under those constraints? Honest question.
- aceperry 11y agoHow do you know that it runs ARM?
- tdkl 11y agoIt runs Tegra X1 SOC : http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-x1-processor.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-x1-processor.html
- baldfat 11y agoSorry this is snarky but a quick Google search would have shown you some good short resources to data. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Linux+arm+support http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Linux+arm+support
- Hydraulix989 11y agoI never understood why ChromeOS existed in the first place. To me, it would make much more sense if these devices ran Android. After all, there's no apps for ChromeOS -- other than glorified Chrome extensions, and it's not easy for developers to create ChromeOS apps (whereas if I could recycle my Android app, life would be good). Arc welder doesn't seem to work very well either. Analogously, Apple only has iOS. There's no SafariOS.
- izacus 11y agoBecause it's the perfect Enterprise OS for companies, schools and other organizations that have moved to the web. Currently there's just no OS that would rival ease of deployment for large scale thin clients. Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools and even iOS/OS X is orders of magnitude more expensive and harder to provision, keep updated and running.
- creshal 11y ago> Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools But Google could have improved Android provisioning instead of pushing another OS. (Which would probably be sensible either way. There's billions of Android devices in enterprise environments that'd benefit from it.)
- phpnode 11y ago> Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools It would be orders of magnitude more cost efficient to just create those tools, compared to creating an entire new operating system.