Great, I know there are web services that provide a sort of "IDE" experience for us devs when it comes to programming, but I don't trust those services 100%... So I really love the direction they are going. I know Dell kicked out some Linux based Laptops with small memory, but they are a joke from my experience. Like, they belong to a 10 year old. So getting a sort of meaty piece of machine with some real functionality sounds perfect.

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On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

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...

-mb

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

So it appears that google is building up their ChromeOS again and adding apt-get/apt so you can install full fledged Linux applications.

This kind of makes a Chromebook a hugely useful device for me.

https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-chrome-os-and-chromebooks-get-new-app-muscle-with-built-in-linux/

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