[CoLoCo] Java on Chrome OS

[Neal McBurnett]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:17:52AM -0700, Andrew Barney wrote:
> As a side question, Isn't ChromeOS just a highly customised version of ubuntu
> netbook edition? I remember trying out one of the first alphas of ChromeOS, and
> that's the impression i had. Although it was in very early testing stage at
> that point, so i have no idea how much it's progressed since then.

ChromeOS is very different from Ubuntu.  It provides no ability to download any non-web applications.  In fact, no ability for users to change the root drive at all.  Also, no access to a normal shell, etc.  It has boot code in ROM and only runs software that the boot code verifies.  So very different than most any other Linux.  More tightly controlled than Android, but programmable via only HTML5 rather than Java, HTML5 and native code.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/