Google turns Chromebooks into programming powerhouses with built-in Linux support[DIE NEWS] By DIE NEWS

Google's pixel book, a high-end Chromebook now can run Linux apps an ability that should appeal to developers Google good news. If you're a Chrome, OS power user you'll, soon be able to run Linux software like programming tools, photo editors and word processors on the Google operating system. At its Google I/o show Tuesday the company announced it's released, a test version of software that brings the Debian stretch version of Linux to its personal computer software right now, it'll only run on Google's own pixel book, but more than half of today's Chromebooks of the necessary Hardware horsepower and by the end of the year Google will expand well beyond its own Chrome OS device said, can Lou a chrome product manager. Most people won't enable the Linux feature blue said, but there are some you're really appreciated programmers who, like more powerful development tools and schools that want to offer students a lot more computer science classes. The move in effect means that Chrome OS is three operating systems packed into one Chrome OS started with the ability to run only web apps like Google, Docs, Facebook and Gmail. Then, over the last two years, Google brought Android apps to Chrome OS, though the fit can be awkward if an app just designed for a smartphone arrives at the big screen laptop, and now we've got Linux the open-source operating system that actually was for the invisible foundation for Chrome OS, all along having a device that can be flexible for its users is really important, said.

Gartner analyst, Bryan Beau developers are the main group. That's likely going to benefit they'll have an inexpensive appliance where they can do their work. The news emerged at Google I/o, the giant developer conference at which the company unveils new products and services that arrive in coming months. That includes everything from an experimental, smarter, smarter system that bones in appointments field to new features that write your Gmail responses. The arrival of Linux means Chrome OS, will become a curious combination of old and new laptop software, Chrome OS debuted with deeply integrated security, frequent ins, no fuss updates fast booting and cloud synchronization that lets you easily move to a new machine or power wash back to a pristine, State, but Linux app support brings the operating system.

Ways of UNIX developed first in the 1970s Grafton UNIX and Linux have advanced by leaps and bounds since then, but decades-old command-line tools remain a core element. The Linux ability will require you to put your pixel book onto the Chrome OS developer, release channel a rougher version of the OS, where Google tests new features later Google plans to promote the features to the ordinary, stable release. The coolest things we saw at Google I/o run ordinary Linux apps on Chrome OS, with the feature you'll be able to install Linux software with ordinary installation tools like Debian's apt-get. Once you do, you'll be able to launch them the same as any other Chrome OS app blue said. That means you can run the PC version of Mozilla Firefox browser on top of Google's Chrome based browser operating system.

For example. Google's pixel book is the first Chrome OS device that will run Debian Linux software James Martin, slash, cynically Linux apps, inherit the same window styling as Chrome OS, apps and google. His work to make sure things like copy and paste are well-matched to those are exactly the types of things we're trying to work out and fix. In this preview period, blue said limits itself runs in a separate computing compartment called a virtual machine that isolates it. So any security problems like malware can't affect the main chrome, OS software Lu said Linux apps can, though, read and write data to the Chrome OS file system.

So, for example, you can save a photo with Chrome OS, then open it with the image editing. Software on Linux small performance hit some virtual machine. Software requires lots of extra memory, but Google's approach based on a modified version of Red Hat's KVM virtual machine project shares memory, so Linux doesn't impose much of an additional burden on the system. Lu said Steven Franklin, / cynic. The Linux option is enabled through a settings change, so it won't penalize anyone who doesn't want it.

It takes about 300 megabytes of storage, space Liu said, but it won't hurt performance much. The limitation on support for older Chromebooks is mostly the de Linux. Support today requires new in versions of Linux that aren't always available. We've done a lot of work, make the virtual machine as efficient as possible. Blue said it should add, only 4% to 5% of additional CPU overhead, meaning that you won't even notice it for most Linux tasks.

He said Chrome OS working, better offline, the Linux software combined with Android apps means Chrome. Os is sidestepping some earlier shortcomings that surface when you tried to use Chromebooks without a network connection Google also is working to advance offline web technology like service workers and progressive web apps, ?, so apps running in any browser work more smoothly. Offline support has been a weakness of Chrome OS. The original argument for Chromebooks included an assumption of reliable, fast, ubiquitous, low latency bandwidth, and even today we don't meet with fairly high bar said: endpoint technologies. Analyst Roger Kay.

Otherwise, there are a lot of good reasons to go with a cloud-based architecture. Google I/o. All our coverage of this year's developer conference, Google Assistant, could become the most lifelike AI. Yet experimental technology called duplex rolling out soon in a limited release, makes you think you're talking to a real person.

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