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Chrome OS 82 tests a Material Theme redesign of the Files app and a revamped Linux terminal with tab support

Chrome OS 82 tests a Material Theme redesign of the Files app and a revamped Linux terminal with tab support

March 13, 2020
Chrome OS has evolved a lot over the last several years, and Google is not stopping any time soon with the changes to attract both regular users and developers. In Chrome OS 82, Google is testing two major UI changes to the Files app and the Terminal app. First, the Google Material Theme redesign looks...
Chrome OS 80 will start using Debian 10 Buster on new Linux installations

Chrome OS 80 will start using Debian 10 Buster on new Linux installations

November 14, 2019
At Google I/O last year, Google announced Linux app support for Chrome OS. This is made possible thanks to installing a GNU/Linux distribution, specifically Debian 9 "Stretch", in a Linux container. Earlier this year, the Debian project announced Debian 10 "Buster," but Google wasn't ready to upgrade the default Linux container on Chromebooks just yet....
Here’s a list of 200+ smartphones that can run Linux distributions

Here’s a list of 200+ smartphones that can run Linux distributions

November 12, 2019
A Linux kernel is a core element of Android but despite this, Android is much different from a typical Linux distribution for its lack of a GNU interface. Android and Linux apps are not exchangeable because of different runtime systems and libraries. But with the efforts of some brilliant developers, you can actually run a...
Microsoft plans to add support for exFAT to the Linux kernel

Microsoft plans to add support for exFAT to the Linux kernel

September 1, 2019
Microsoft announced last Wednesday that they planned to add support for exFAT to the Linux kernel, a file system that they have profited off of licensing to Android device manufacturers for years. exFAT was a file system created in 2006 with the intention of improving upon the FAT file system, and it has better support...
Chrome OS 76 adds a flag to enable GPU support for Linux apps

Chrome OS 76 adds a flag to enable GPU support for Linux apps

May 24, 2019
It has been more than a year since Linux apps first appeared on Chrome OS devices. Since then, more and more Chromebooks started receiving support and the project got better, too. But, there is one feature that has been heavily requested by the users and that's graphical acceleration. GPU support has been nonexistent for Linux...
Linux on DeX now supports the Galaxy S9, Galaxy Tab S5e, and Galaxy Note 8, and hints at upcoming Galaxy Tab S5 support

Linux on DeX now supports the Galaxy S9, Galaxy Tab S5e, and Galaxy Note 8, and hints at upcoming Galaxy Tab S5 support

April 22, 2019
Samsung DeX turns flagship Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets into portable PCs. In its first iteration, released alongside the Galaxy S8, DeX required dedicated hardware in the form of the DeX Station. With the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Tab S4, DeX no longer required a special dock and instead worked with supported USB Type-C...
Chrome OS 75 brings full USB support for Linux apps

Chrome OS 75 brings full USB support for Linux apps

April 12, 2019
Last year, Chrome OS received an update to add in official support for Linux applications. The initial support was very rough around the edges, to say the least, but since then the company has been working hard to fix things up and make it more user-friendly. With each update for this newly added support to...
How to install Linux on the Chuwi Hi10 Air

How to install Linux on the Chuwi Hi10 Air

March 31, 2019
There's a lot of Chinese brands putting out exceptional devices at the moment--just have a look at brands like Huawei, Xiaomi, and OnePlus for examples of this. But the Chinese market is big, and there's a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to Chinese OEMs. Chuwi currently figures as one of these...
Chrome OS 74 adds support for backing up the Linux container

Chrome OS 74 adds support for backing up the Linux container

February 27, 2019
Google has continued to update Linux support on Chrome OS lately. For those unaware, Linux support in Chrome OS, known as "Crostini" by the internal dev team, can be tracked by monitoring the Chromium Gerrit for new commits. It's unclear how far Google's roadmap for Linux support will go when it comes to Chrome OS,...
Chrome OS 74 brings audio support to Linux apps

Chrome OS 74 brings audio support to Linux apps

February 20, 2019
In the middle of last year at Google I/O 2018, we learned that Chrome OS was gaining support for Linux applications starting with the Google Pixelbook. This feature had formed from what was known internally as "Crostini" and we had been tracking it throughout its development cycle. Since then, support for Linux apps has grown to...
FWUL, the Linux distro designed for Android debugging and modding, hits version 3.0

FWUL, the Linux distro designed for Android debugging and modding, hits version 3.0

January 31, 2019
Chances are, at least once in a lifetime, you needed to flash your Android device or simply use adb or fastboot for debugging purposes. Considering the fact that Windows has more than 80% market share on the operating system market, chances are even higher that you use it. That's why it's sometimes so hard to properly...
Linux kernel 5.0 RC1 is available with ARM big.LITTLE EAS support, F2FS fixes, and much more

Linux kernel 5.0 RC1 is available with ARM big.LITTLE EAS support, F2FS fixes, and much more

January 25, 2019
While we don't typically cover what happens in the mainline Linux kernel realm, it's important for us to keep track of what's going on with each new kernel release since Google mandates a minimum Linux kernel version requirement with each new release of Android. The recent decision to extend LTS releases from 2 to 6...