The release of the Ubuntu Web 20.04.3 distribution has been announced, aimed at creating a Chrome OS-like environment optimized for web browser use and running web applications as standalone programs. The release is based on the Ubuntu 20.04.3 package base with a GNOME desktop. The browser environment for running web applications is based on Firefox. The size of the bootable ISO image is 2.5 GB.
A feature of the new version is the provision of an environment for running Android applications, built using the Waydroid package, which allows the creation of an isolated environment within a standard Linux distribution for loading a full system image of the Android platform. The Waydroid environment offers /e/ 10, a fork of Android 10 developed by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. Installation of Android and web applications (PWA) distributed for the /e/ platform is supported. Android applications can run alongside web applications and native Linux applications.
The distribution is developed by Rudra Saraswat, an eleven-year-old teenager from India known for creating the Ubuntu Unity distribution and developing the UnityX project, a fork of the Unity7 desktop.
Source: opennet.ru
