<div dir="ltr">That is actually really cool to see/hear. I've liked their hardware, but a "web-based os" is pretty absurd to me as trying to do the job of an engineer on an tablet or phone. I could, but geez, why? Growing up with PC/Laptops, Chromebooks always struck me the drivel, but I've tried everything for years to run android apps under linux as the final killer app, and simply nothing works. I could tolerate the stupid webapp thing in the background if I can apt install nmap, wireshark, libreoffice, and other tools I use under linux on a chromebook, I think...<div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">So it appears that google is building up their ChromeOS again and adding apt-get/apt so you can install full fledged Linux applications.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">This kind of makes a Chromebook a hugely useful device for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-chrome-os-and-chromebooks-get-new-app-muscle-with-built-in-linux/" target="_blank">https://www.cnet.com/news/<wbr>googles-chrome-os-and-<wbr>chromebooks-get-new-app-<wbr>muscle-with-built-in-linux/</a></font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-4263156071644750716gmail_signature">A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.<br><br>Stephen<br><br></div>
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