Danish schools will no longer be allowed to use Chromebooks and Google platforms

Re:Danish schools will no longer be allowed to use Chromeboo... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:55PM (#39294198)

So we all know what we're talking about, but the terminology is actually messy because ChromeOS is a GNU/Linux system; AFAIK it's using GNU coreutils, glibc, and a fair bit of other software pulled straight from the packages provided by gentoo (from which ChromeOS derives). This is a notable contrast to Android, which indeed replaced coreutils with busybox and then toybox, and uses its own bionic libc and custom userland.

I tentatively lean towards calling it "desktop Linux", or perhaps "user-controlled Linux" since that's rather the important part.

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Re:Danish schools will no longer be allowed to use Chromeboo... by theprivacydad on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:41PM (#39296340)

> user-controlled linux

Thanks, I will change that in the article. I appreciate your feedback

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Re:Danish schools will no longer be allowed to use Chromeboo... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:34AM (#39298634)

Glad it was useful:)

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Re:Danish schools will no longer be allowed to use Chromeboo... by xethos on Thursday February 08, 2024 @10:18AM (#39302893)

There really is no good term; GNU+Linux includes ChromeOS (TIL) and excludes Alpine (and derivatives like PostmarketOS), "Desktop" doesn't jive with Mobian (for Linux mobile devices), and "Linux" includes Android.

User-controlled might be the best I've seen so far, which is really saying something - all it's missing is what happens when it's issued (and administered) by a school or other org.

Now I'm gonna be rolling around phrases like "libre-encouraging Linux" in my head the next few days.

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