Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 08:53:46

On 21 Apr 2022 at 09:38a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>  te> Meh. I know a lot of the ChromeOS folk and they're good
 Ni>  te> folks. The point though, is that Linux has achieved widespread
 Ni>  te> success.
 Ni> 
 Ni> It has had good success, but systems like ChromeOS (and similarly
 Ni> Android) are successful examples because the companies that made them
 Ni> chose Linux as the base for those products.  Usually though, when people
 Ni> think of ChromeOS (or Android), they don't tend to think of Android.. 
 Ni> ChromeOS is its own thing that is locked down and limited in what it can
 Ni> do - similar to Android, which is baseed on Linux but locked down to run
 Ni> the Android UI and to run Android apps.

For at least ChromeOS, there's a virtualization environment
that lets you run "normal" Linux programs.  It works quite
well; the VMM was written from scratch at Google in Rust and
open sourced:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/

This was then forked by Amazon and became the basis for
firecracker, the VMM used with AWS Lambda.

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