Hacker News with Generative AI: ChromeOS

Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM (kevindavid.org)
I recently wanted to experiment with ChromeOS Flex but didn’t want to install it on a physical machine. I also was doing this without a USB key, which complicated things slightly.

Virtualization, ChromeOS, Proxmox, QEMU

78 points by goodburb 45 days ago | 20 comments

The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops (zdnet.com)
It's the beginning of the end for ChromeOS as Google faces a pivotal challenge: compete with Apple's Arm dominance while leveraging AI and custom silicon to redefine affordable computing.

Android, ChromeOS, Laptops, Computing, AI

40 points by thunderbong 57 days ago | 54 comments

Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps (zdnet.com)
Merging Android and ChromeOS is a bold first step, but turning Android into a true alternative to MacOS, iPadOS, and Windows requires Google to make some big moves.

Android, Operating Systems, Google, ChromeOS, Desktop

10 points by thesuperbigfrog 58 days ago | 10 comments

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 3 (collabora.com)
This is the third and last part of a series explaining how Collabora is helping shape the video virtualization story for Chromebooks. Part one looked at hardware acceleration for video codecs and the VirtIO Video protocol. Part two explored the Rust libraries Collabora wrote to decode video content.

ChromeOS, Virtualization, Video, Linux, Open Source

13 points by transpute 103 days ago | 1 comments

ChromeOS ending independent 'Lacros' browser effort in light of Android future (9to5google.com)

ChromeOS, Operating Systems, Google, Android, Web Browsers

7 points by mikece 190 days ago | 0 comments

ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup (paoloamoroso.com)

ChromeOS, Linux, Operating Systems, Migration, Setup

12 points by devonnull 202 days ago | 1 comments

ChromeOS to Migrate to Android-Based Tech Stack (chromeos.dev)

ChromeOS, Operating Systems, Android, Google

50 points by eklitzke 220 days ago | 9 comments

ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack (chromium.org)

ChromeOS, Android, Operating Systems, Software Development

325 points by feross 220 days ago | 465 comments

Google made a version of ChromeOS that runs on Pixel, including external monitor (9to5google.com)

ChromeOS, Google, Operating Systems, Pixels, Hardware

14 points by thesuperbigfrog 249 days ago | 10 comments