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ChromeOS being folded into Android

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/29/google_chrome_os_android/

Big mistake, Google. Big mistake: Chrome OS to be 'folded into Android'
Ad giant about to perform mashup we all knew was coming

Google is apparently going to "fold" Chrome OS into Android, 
potentially killing a secure, lightweight desktop OS in the process.
The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, claims engineers at 
the Mountain View giant have spent the past two years merging Chrome OS 
into Android.
The end result will be an all-encompassing OS for mobile devices and 
notebooks, we're told. The software will be demonstrated by the end of 
2016, and released the next year, the WSJ claims.
Chrome OS was pitched as an operating system for low-powered netbooks, 
and is largely aimed at the education market. It is built from the 
open-source Chromium OS, a minimal Gentoo-derived GNU/Linux operating 
system that pretty much does everything through the Chrome (or 
Chromium) web browser.
Although it can run a handful of native apps offline, it's mostly a 
terminal to the web: word processing, games, social nattering, and so 
on, can all be done online through the browser.
The integration of Chrome OS into Android is not unexpected: a merging 
of the two operating systems has been on the cards since 2013, when 
Google Android exec Andy Rubin was replaced by Chrome OS veteran Sundar 
Pichai. A year later, Google showed off technology allowing Android 
apps to run on Chrome OS systems, and today Pichai is Google's chief 
exec.
The reported move is not without its critics, particularly in the 
security community. While Chrome OS is praised for its minimal attack 
surface and locked-down sandboxed browser environment, Android has been 
riddled with vulnerabilities. If development of Chrome OS stalls while 
Googlers focus on building a laptop-friendly Android, that's what you 
might call bad news.

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ChromeOS being folded into Android RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-30 10:28 +0300
  Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-04-25 10:18 -0400
    Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-04-25 20:32 +0200
    Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-25 21:30 +0000
      Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-04-26 21:02 +0200
    Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-04-26 18:19 +0100
      Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-04-26 13:57 -0400
        Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-04-26 20:20 +0100
    Re: ChromeOS being folded into Android RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-12-14 02:13 +0000

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