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Chrome OS isn't a full Linux distribution, but it does use the Linux kernel with a new windowing system on top. This is bringing Linux to the masses in the sam

• SkyMarshal 16y ago
  And that Android brought Linux to the mobile masses. I suppose you can just think of Chrome OS and Android as just another couple of distros among the thousands already available. Same kernel, customized UI & apps. Fundamentally, that's what Linux is about - a FOSS platform that anyone can modify and redistribute.
  • blasdel 16y ago
    Android uses a heavily hacked kernel and essentially ignores the standard interfaces for everything it's userland stuff touches. It's also less of a distro than Slackware was -- every update has to be ported to the existing hardware platforms! Google finally wised up and will soon start shipping all the user-facing stuff through the Marketplace instead of tied to a kernel release. ChromeOS is better, it's just a spin of Ubuntu.
• blasdel 16y ago
  Neither of your points are really true: ChromeOS uses X Windows, just without a reparenting window manager. ChromeOS is not Unix 'hidden' under a pretty UI -- neither the filesystem nor the userland are exposed to the user or to application developers. There's no Finder as the main UI with a Terminal in the Utilities folder: both metaphors are simply gone.
  • papachito 16y ago
    There's a dev mod with full bash access.