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A comment on Chrome OS native development.

Re:Chrome OS native development by joshiefishbein on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:05AM (#15248106)
Just to be clear, Chrome OS is a Unix-based OS right?

They don't immediately explain that in their docs and, being a web dev, it's hard to tell from the outside.

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Re:Chrome OS native development by carussell on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:41AM (#15248484)
Fourth paragraph of the article:

> Chrome OS is Linux under the hood so, in principle, you can run any standalone Linux binary on it. More precisely, Chrome OS is based on Gentoo Linux.

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Re:Chrome OS native development by satysin on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:09AM (#15248147)
Correct, Chrome OS is a Linux-based distribution. I believe it is/was based on Gentoo although I may be misremembering that.
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Re:Chrome OS native development by wanda on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:42AM (#15248496)
You are correct. Gentoo was selected for its Portage package management system.
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Re:Chrome OS native development by loudmax on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:07AM (#15248126)
Chrome OS uses a Linux kernel. I believe much of it comes from Gentoo.
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