{"id":26795,"date":"2021-11-02T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/chromebook-linux-comes-of-age.html"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:27:45","slug":"chromebook-linux-comes-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/chromebook-linux-comes-of-age.html","title":{"rendered":"Chromebook Linux comes of age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chromebooks are built on top of Linux<\/a>, but it wasn’t until 2018 that Google integrated the Linux desktop into Chrome OS<\/a>. Then years went by with Linux only available as a beta on Chromebooks<\/a>. But, at long, long last with the release of Chrome OS 91<\/a>, Linux finally become a first-class citizen on Chromebooks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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MInd you, long before Google integrated Linux into Chromebooks, you could run desktop Linux distros on Chromebooks. With the open-source Crouton<\/a> program and its chroot<\/a> container, you could run Debian<\/a>, Ubuntu<\/a>, and Kali Linux<\/a>. Or, you could run Gallium OS<\/a>, a third-party, Xubuntu<\/a> Chromebook-specific Linux distribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or, you could do what I’ve been doing for the last three years, just running Debian Linux using Google’s Crostini<\/a>. This KVM<\/a> virtual machine (VM) system with its LXD<\/a> Linux containers may have been a beta but I never — I repeat — never had any trouble running Linux with it on all the many Intel-based Chromebooks<\/a> I’ve used in the last few years.<\/p>\n

But, now that Linux is officially supported, you can run multiple Linux instances at once on your Chromebook<\/a>. This will be a big deal. Do you want to compile your code in one container while playing Tux Racer<\/a> in another? You can do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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with its i7 processor and 16GBs of RAM, both containers stutter a bit. You see this feature is still a beta with a capital B.<\/p>\n

To make it work, you need to enable the new ‘crotini-multi-container’ flag. There’s also a new Chrome OS Settings section, “Manage extra containers”. This both tells you what your current containers are, lets you create a new one, and enables you to stop or delete your existing containers. In my early testing, I’ve been stopping a lot of misbehaving containers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In short, this new feature is far from ready for ordinary use. But, if you like playing on the bleeding edge of technology, it’s well worth a try. Eventually, when this new functionality is perfected, this will make high-end Chromebooks as useful for Linux power users as a top-of-the-line Linux laptop like a
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