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You'll Soon Be Able to Run Linux Apps on Any Chromebook

You'll Soon Be Able to Run Linux Apps on Any Chromebook

You'll Soon Be Able to Run Linux Apps on Any Chromebook

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

May 13, 20193m 20s

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Microsoft announced this week that it will bring the heart of the open source operating system Linux into Windows. Not to be outdone, Google says all future Chromebooks will be able to run Linux applications. Chromebooks run an operating system, ChromeOS, that is built on the Linux kernel but was originally designed to only run Google's web browser Chrome. That meant you could only really use web apps.

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