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→Linux: Speak of "large systems" rather than "big iron", given that the page for "big iron" redirects to mainframe computer, which we give as an example of "big iron". This needs to be restated, as 1) the "other large systems" probably include the commercial UN*Xes and 2) IBM "mainframe computers" can and do run Linux.
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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]] [[ChromiumOS]] 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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