ChromiumOS
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ChromiumOS (formerly styled as Chromium OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution designed for running web applications and browsing the World Wide Web. It is the open-source version of ChromeOS, a Linux distribution made by Google.
Key facts
- OS.name
- ChromiumOS
- OS.logo
- Chromium Logo.svg
- OS.logo_size
- 60px
- OS.screenshot
- ChromiumOS-desk.png
- OS.caption
- Chromium OS (85.0.4163.0) displaying the New Tab Page
- OS.developer
- OS.family
- Unix-like (Linux)
- OS.working_state
- Current
- OS.source_model
- Open source
- OS.updatemodel
- Rolling release
- OS.supported_platforms
- IA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic (Linux kernel)
- OS.userland
- Ozone (Display manager), X11, GNU
- OS.ui
- Chromium, Aura Shell (Ash)
- OS.license
- Various open source licenses (mainly BSD-style licenses and GPL)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Architecture
- Availability
- Builds and forks
- Hardware
- Trademark dispute
- See also
- References
- External links
ChromiumOS (formerly styled as Chromium OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution designed for running web applications and browsing the World Wide Web. It is the open-source version of ChromeOS, a Linux distribution made by Google.
ChromiumOS is based on the Linux kernel, like ChromeOS, but its principal user interface is the Chromium web browser rather than the Google Chrome browser. ChromiumOS also includes the Portage package manager, which was originally developed for Gentoo Linux. Because ChromiumOS and ChromeOS use a browser engine for the user interface, they are oriented toward web applications rather than application software or mobile apps.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ChromiumOS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.