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==Google ChromeOS==

'''ChromeOS''' (formerly '''Chrome OS''',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://9to5google.com/2022/03/15/google-prepares-chromeos-rebrand-to-drop-the-space/ |title=Google prepares &#039;ChromeOS&#039; rebrand to drop the space |last=Bradshaw |first=Kyle |date=15 March 2022 |website=9to5Google |publisher=[[9to5Mac]] |access-date=21 March 2022 |quote=Google changes approximately 1,000 instances of “Chrome OS” in the code – from text visible to Chromebook owners to internal comments only seen by developers – to “ChromeOS.”}}</ref> sometimes styled as '''chromeOS''') is a [[Gentoo Linux]]-based [[operating system]] designed by Google. It is derived from the [[free software]] [[Chromium OSChromiumOS]] and uses the [[Google Chrome]] web browser as its principal [[user interface]]. However, ChromeOS is [[proprietary software]].

Google announced the project in July 2009, conceiving it as an operating system in which both applications and user data reside in the [[Cloud computing|cloud]]: hence ChromeOS primarily runs [[web application]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/chromium-os-kernel|title = Kernel Design|website = The Chromium Projects}}</ref> Source code and a public demo came that November. The first ChromeOS laptop, known as a [[Chromebook]], arrived in May 2011. Initial Chromebook shipments from [[Samsung Electronics|Samsung]] and [[Acer Inc.|Acer]] occurred in July 2011.

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[[Android (operating system)|Android]] applications started to become available for the operating system in 2014, and in 2016, access to Android apps in [[Google Play]]'s entirety was introduced on supported ChromeOS devices. Support for a Linux terminal and applications, known as Project Crostini,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md|title=Chromium OS Docs – Running Custom Containers Under Chrome OS|website=chromium.googlesource.com}}</ref> was released to the stable channel in ChromeOS 69. This was made possible via a lightweight Linux kernel that runs containers inside a [[virtual machine]].

ChromeOS is only available pre-installed on hardware from Google manufacturing partners, but there are unofficial methods that allow it to be installed in other equipment.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Chrome OS unofficial forks| url = https://quickfever.com/chrome-os-for-pc/|website = quickfever.com|access-date = 20 December 2018}}</ref> Its [[Open-source software|open-source]] upstream, [[Chromium OSChromiumOS]], can be [[compiled]] from downloaded [[source code]]. Early on, Google provided design goals for ChromeOS, but has not otherwise released a technical description.

==See also==