Sameer Samat, president of Google for the Android ecosystem, mentioned in an interview with Techradar the intentions to merge Chrome OS and Android into a single platform. During the conversation, Sameer noticed that the journalist had a MacBook and an Apple Watch, and asked what applications he uses on his laptop and how he manages his devices, explaining that he was asking because Google is planning to unify Chrome OS and Android, and he is curious about how people use their laptops.
Previously, official representatives of Google had not openly mentioned plans to merge Chrome OS and Android, information about which was unofficially obtained from some Google employees in November 2024. The reason for the merger was cited as a desire to strengthen competition with the iPad and to use engineering resources more efficiently, so as not to spread efforts across two operating systems.
An indirect confirmation of Google's intentions was the work initiated last year to translate the ChromeOS system environment to a variant of the Linux kernel, frameworks, and system components of the Android platform. At the same time, recent releases of the Android platform have seen active development of desktop mode and capabilities for working on larger screen devices.
The ChromeOS operating system resembles atomically updated Linux distributions in its architecture, using the Linux kernel with specific patches, the upstart system manager, and the ebuild/portage build toolkit from Gentoo Linux. Although the user environment of ChromeOS is focused on using a web browser, and web applications are used instead of standard programs, the platform includes a full-fledged multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. For launching applications created for Linux and Android, it uses makina virtuale, të ekzekutuar përmes hipervizorit CrosVM, i bazuar në KVM.
By default, Chrome OS employs disk partition encryption with user data (using fscrypt), while system partitions are mounted as read-only, verified by digital signatures, and updated atomically (two root partitions, one for work and one for updating, which switch places). Output to the screen is handled through the Freon graphics stack and the Aura window manager (the project is also developing a compositor). server Exo i bazuar në Wayland, punon mbi Aura). Kodi burimor shpërndahet nën licencën e lirë Apache 2.0.
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