One of the biggest shifts for Chrome OS in recent years has been the addition of Linux apps support, which runs a full version of Debian GNU/Linux in a virtual machine.
You’re also better off having some knowledge of Linux tools and the command line in case things go funny, but it’s not strictly necessary.Chrome OS is about to become even more powerful, with Google’s “Bruschetta” project adding support for using the Linux distro of your choice. Do capitals really matter if caps-lock has been (mostly) banished, and the keycaps are all lower-case?Īnyone who wants to run straight Linux on their Chromium OS device, and doesn’t care about physical security. It stands for ChRomium Os Universal chrooT envirONment …or something like that. Currently Ubuntu and Debian are supported (using debootstrap behind the scenes), but “Chromium OS Debian, Ubuntu, and Probably Other Distros Eventually Chroot Environment” doesn’t acronymize as well (crodupodece is admittedly pretty fun to say, though).
Crouton is a set of scripts that bundle up into an easy-to-use, Chromium OS-centric chroot generator. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer’s hardwareĬrouton allows you to use Chrome OS while having a standard Linux environment with all its command-line tools and desktop applications a few keystrokes away. Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. It can run on a variety of computers, including Chromebooks. Linux is a popular open source operating system. This lets you run ChromeOS and Ubuntu side-by-side, being able to flip between the two on-the-fly. We will use a third-party script called crouton to install Ubuntu using a chroot, giving Ubuntu its own “pretend” root directory system on your machine. You’ll need to choose a project developed specially for Chromebooks.Here are some helpful links if you’re interested in Crouton or running an “other linux OS” on Chromebooks:
Installing Ubuntu Linux on your Chromebook isn’t as simple as installing the standard Ubuntu system-at least not at the moment. It is possible to run Linux and other operating systems on a Chromebook.
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