ChromeOS, sometimes stylized as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google.
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25 Facts About ChromeOS
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ChromeOS was initially intended for secondary devices like netbooks, and not as a user's primary PC.
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ChromeOS previewed a desktop which looked very similar to the desktop Chrome browser, and in addition to the regular browser tabs had application tabs, which take less space and can be pinned for easier access.
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The additions marked a departure from the operating system's original concept of a single browser with tabs and gave ChromeOS the look and feel of a more conventional desktop operating system.
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ChromeOS argued that Google had traded its original version of simplicity for greater functionality.
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Instead, ChromeOS devices were much more similar to their Nexus line of Android phones, with each ChromeOS device being designed, manufactured, and marketed by third-party manufacturers, but with Google controlling the software.
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Each device model manufactured to run ChromeOS has a different end-of-life date, with all new devices released in 2020 and beyond guaranteed to receive a minimum of eight years from their date of initial release.
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In 2016, Google made Google Play available for ChromeOS, making most Android apps available for supported ChromeOS devices.
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ChromeOS includes an integrated file manager, resembling those found on other operating systems, with the ability to display directories and the files they contain from both Google Drive and local storage, as well as to preview and manage file contents using a variety of Web applications, including Google Docs and Box.
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In September 2014, Google introduced a beta version of the App Runtime for Chrome, which allows selected Android applications to be used on ChromeOS, using a Native Client-based environment that provides the platforms necessary to run Android software.
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At its introduction, ChromeOS support was only available for selected Android applications.
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Google's project for supporting Linux applications in ChromeOS is called Crostini, named for the Italian bread-based starter, and as a pun on Crouton.
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ChromeOS said that ChromeOS netbooks would be shipped with Trusted Platform Module, and include both a "trusted boot path" and a physical switch under the battery compartment that activates a "developer mode".
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At a December 2010 press conference, Google declared that ChromeOS would be the most secure consumer operating system due in part to a verified boot ability, in which the initial boot code, stored in read-only memory, checks for system compromises.
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ChromeOS includes the Chrome Shell, or "crosh", which documents minimal functionality such as ping at crosh start-up.
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ChromeOS is partially developed under the open-source Chromium OS project.
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ChromeOS would follow the Chrome browser's practice of leveraging HTML5's offline modes, background processing, and notifications.
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ChromeOS was designed to store user documents and files on remote servers.
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ChromeOS uses the same release system as Google Chrome: there are three distinct channels: Stable, Beta, and Developer preview.
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At its debut, ChromeOS was viewed as a competitor to Microsoft, both directly to Microsoft Windows and indirectly the company's word processing and spreadsheet applications—the latter through ChromeOS' reliance on cloud computing.
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Some observers claimed that other operating systems already filled the niche that ChromeOS was aiming for, with the added advantage of supporting native applications in addition to a browser.
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In September 2014, Google introduced a beta version of the App Runtime for Chrome, which allows selected Android applications to be used on ChromeOS, using a Native Client-based environment that provides the platforms necessary to run Android software.
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At its introduction, ChromeOS support was only available for selected Android applications.
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In October 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that ChromeOS would be folded into Android so that a single OS would result by 2017.
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