ChromeOS
Sign in to saveChromeOS (sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS) is a proprietary operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source operating system (which itself is derived from Gentoo Linux), and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
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ChromeOS is a computer operating system made by Google that's built around the Chrome web browser as its main interface. It matters because it offers a lightweight, simple alternative to traditional operating systems like Windows or macOS, making computers faster and easier to use for people primarily working online.
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Key facts
- OS.name
- ChromeOS
- OS.logo
- ChromeOS Logo.svg
- OS.screenshot
- ChromeOS screenshot.png
- OS.caption
- ChromeOS 132 desktop, showing the homepage of Wikipedia
- OS.developer
- OS.family
- Unix-like (Linux)
- OS.working_state
- Preinstalled on Chromebooks, Chromeboxes, Chromebits, Chromebases, Google meet hardware
- OS.programmed_in
- C, C++, assembly, JavaScript, HTML5, Python, Rust
- OS.updatemodel
- Rolling release
- OS.package_manager
- Portage
- OS.supported_platforms
- ARM32, ARM64, IA-32, x86-64
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic (Linux kernel)
Article
42 sectionsContents
- History
- Early Chromebooks (2010)
- Expansion (2012)
- Chromebook Pixel (2013)
- 2013–2025
- Pwnium competition
- Material Design and app runtime for Chrome
- Merger with Android
- Features
- Functionality for small and medium businesses and Enterprise
- Chrome Enterprise
- From Chromebooks to Chromebox and Chromebase
- Enterprise response to Chrome devices
- Hardware
- ChromeOS Flex
- Software
- Applications
- Chrome Apps
- Integrated media player, file manager
- Remote application access and virtual desktop access
- Android applications
- Linux apps
- Architecture
- Windows apps
- Architecture
- Shell access
- Open source
- ChromeOS on Windows
- Design
- User interface
- Version 19 window manager and graphics engine
- Printing
- Link handling
- Release channels and updates
- Security
- Login
- Reception
- Relationship to Android
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
ChromeOS (sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS) is a proprietary operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source operating system (which itself is derived from Gentoo Linux), and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
Google announced the project in July 2009, initially describing it as an operating system where applications and user data would reside in the cloud. ChromeOS was used primarily to run web applications. The operating system first shipped with Chromebooks in 2011. It is also offered since 2020 as an installable Linux distribution as ChromeOS Flex.