Google’s president of Android confirmed that the platform is defined to replace Chromeos – but not when.
The ostensible reason is, we suspect, of offering better integration with combined Android smart watches, etc., to compete with apple interoperation levels.
Sameer Samat is the “president, the Android ecosystem” of Mountain View, so it is likely. Techradar interview is also a little rare on details, but it may not be so long before the change occurs. This year’s Google IO conference was, you may not be surprised to find, full of media threw on AI, but the Chromeos community on Reddit REMARK There was almost no mention of the Chromebook operating system.
As we observed in 2023, Chromeos is a successful platform, mac excluding sales and The register Foss Desk agrees with our own socket in 2022 from SJVN: Chromeos is a Linux office. PC sales are doing quite well, thanks in part to the imminent “end of 10” and the CMI analyst account Sales are increasing. Last year, Google always recommended it as a rescue buoy for Windows 10 users.
Under open source Aura shellsChromeos is much more like a standard Linux distribution than Android. He uses glibc and canonical upstart Init System, and although the 2009 prototype is based on Ubuntu, it went to a gentoo base in 2010. On brand Chromeos brand equipment, it can run Android applications installed from the Play Store. Chromeos Flex, which works on ordinary PC and Intel Mac equipment, does not have that – but the two editions have the Crostini Linux environment integrated, which Use the Canonical LXD To allow you to install and execute Debian applications inside transparent virtual machines.
Android differs considerably as OS. It always works on a Linux kernel, but uses the Bionic Libcwhich is under BSD license and based on the BSD code rather than on Linux. It is always a Linux, however, and it is open source via the Official Google AOSP.
There have been Android PC office versions for years. Some, as Android-X86 And Blissos-X86are still maintained. There are others, such as the Indian budget laptop supplier Premium. Some have become dormant, for example Jide Remix OSwhich The register I tried in 2016, but the company changed direction.
It is certainly doable. And improved integration with Android handsets and smart watches could interest certain users … as well as Google.
The big problem is the driver’s support. Chromeos Flex shows that this is surmountable, although there are still problems, such as NVIDIA GPU support (third party efforts exist). The Linux application infrastructure is in a virtual machine anyway, and there is already an Android equivalent. We think this could happen as soon as possible – and that visible differences could be minimal. Assuming that there is a flexible equivalent, even if it may not be at the beginning, it could also mean a choice of applications. ®
