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Chromebrew

What is it?

Chromebrew is an open source package manager / source builder hybrid targeting Chromebooks and Chrome OS.

What does it do?

It installs the software you need that hasn’t been provided by Google. Many important packages are already precompiled and it’s enough to just type crew install package_name, but if something’s not already there, you can easily build and install it from source.

Anyone used this?
Seems like a good option for the above OSes…

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Does Chrome OS have a built in terminal function? I’ve never actually used Chrome OS. It’s considered a Linux distro by the FSF, and those commands certainly show it (it looks very familiar to me as a Linux user).

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I tend to think of ChromeOS/ Android as a distant closed-source cousins of GNU Linux. IIRC, there are two types of terminal in ChromeOS, one for chrome development (standard) and the optional Linux terminal which needs activated within ChromeOS developer settings.

I’d imagine that dependancies will be downloaded to activate the linux terninal akin to a VM with dedicated storage allocation for the Linux apps/ programs.
Don’t have a Chromebook either but, have had a few hours using one of a family members device a while back.
Nevertheless, an interesting option for ChromeOS users and if i did have one I’d be right on it.

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Chrome OS isn’t really distant, though. It is built from recent Gentoo Linux, and is still very much GNU/Linux beneath the surface. It’s a downstream derivative of Gentoo, the way that Ubuntu is downstream of Debian and Mint is downstream of Ubuntu.

Android forked long ago and has changed significantly, and none of the GNU tools (afaik) came along for the ride.

 

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