{"id":21506,"date":"2018-05-11T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21506"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:16:56","slug":"chrome-os-is-getting-linux-app-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/chrome-os-is-getting-linux-app-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome OS Is Getting Linux App Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/05\/08\/chrome-os-is-getting-linux-app-support\/\">Emil Protalinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/05\/08\/chrome-os-is-getting-linux-app-support\/\"><p>As a result, Chromebooks will soon be able to run Linux apps and execute Linux commands. A preview of Linux on the Pixelbook will be released first, with support for more devices coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>One of Google&rsquo;s goals this year is to make it possible for developers to code on Chromebooks. Want Chrome OS to run the Linux terminal, Android Studio, Git, Sublime, Vim, or Android Studio? All of that will be possible this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/993953416618565632\">Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/993953416618565632\"><p>Google just threw open the doors to Android development becoming a big thing taught in schools. No playgrounds, no restrictions, real Android Studio on Chromebooks.<\/p>\n<p>Apple really needs to get back into the low end macOS notebook segment. Hoping they can build a cheap ARM laptop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a huge gap (in both price and functionality) between an iPad and Apple&rsquo;s current Macs. I can&rsquo;t stop thinking about netbooks and the original MacBook Air. In <a href=\"http:\/\/lowendmac.com\/2008\/13-macbook-air-early-2008\/\">2008<\/a>, Apple said it couldn&rsquo;t make a cheap laptop that was good. So it made the MacBook Air, which was both better and much more expensive. Ten years later, I think this would be possible. Apple just doesn&rsquo;t seem interested in doing it. The $899 <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/an-ode-to-the-11-inch-macbook-air\/\">11-inch MacBook Air<\/a> was a step in the right direction, but instead of iterating and gradually bringing down the price, Apple discontinued it and replaced it with the 12-inch MacBook, which costs $1,299 and may actually be slower. There are PC laptops that cost $200 and run Windows 10. I don&rsquo;t expect Apple to go that low, but they&rsquo;re not even in the game.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-05-14): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17053544\">Are Chromebooks ready for serious development?<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emil Protalinski: As a result, Chromebooks will soon be able to run Linux apps and execute Linux commands. A preview of Linux on the Pixelbook will be released first, with support for more devices coming soon. One of Google&rsquo;s goals this year is to make it possible for developers to code on Chromebooks. Want Chrome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-05-14T20:16:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"af250a0a-c276-41d8-85df-0e9779b2e9c2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-14T20:16:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AryUKCsJ2QdiF3w6XebLpwg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,235,1309,448,30,1173],"class_list":["post-21506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-education","tag-google-chromebook","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-macbook-air"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21521,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions\/21521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}