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Something like crostini for the iPad would be amazing. I picked up a Lenovo Yoga 630 not too long ago, was planning to see if I could blow away ChromeOS and get
by garren 7y ago
Something like crostini for the iPad would be amazing. I picked up a Lenovo Yoga 630 not too long ago, was planning to see if I could blow away ChromeOS and get Linux running on it, but discovered instead that I could spin up containers.
Crostini completely changed my mind around Chromebooks/ChromeOS as passive, consumption oriented, disposable hardware. I could have the best of both worlds - a nice shiny UI for surfing and Netflix, and a terminal with everything I'd need to get things done. All while not having to turn on dev-mode (wonky) and still playing within Google's ChromeOS confines.
Something like that on iOS would be wild. ChromeOS has the advantage in that it's fundamentally Linux, but the idea of having something like a little BSD container complete with shell and filesystem access would be pretty great.
- criddell 7y agoDon't containers destroy your battery life?
- bitwize 7y agoChromeOS being fundamentally Linux has nothing to do with it. Crostini is containers running on a VM under a hypervisor (<signalling>written in Rust!</signalling>). Apple could easily do the same thing with bhyve on the iPad. But, I bet they won't.