Can you go into more detail about this "userspace Linux sandbox"? -- William Park <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:28:00PM -0500, Chris Tyler via talk wrote: > The current Chromebooks will run a Linux userspace sandboxed very nicely > *right > out of the box, *neither crouton nor dev mode required. I have a Samsung > Chromebook Plus (gen 1, with the high-dpi screen -- watch out for gen 2 > where they dropped to 1080 (and also regressed from ARM to Intel)) and the > LInux userspace (Debian) is fabulous -- full development toolchain > (including gdb etc), X window and wayland app support, and so on. The > environments are semi-integrated -- there's a separate directory in the > ChromeOS "Files" application that maps to $HOME in the sandbox/container, > but any graphical apps you install into the sandbox show up on the ChromeOS > main menu (e.g., LibreOffice, Gimp, Eschema, and so forth). Apparently > deeper integration is coming; releases in the pipeline include the ability > to do things like mount your Google Drive filesystem within the sandbox. > > My wife has a Pixelbook (top-end Chromebook, gorgeous build with glass > trackpad etc - I gave her the nice machine this time ;-) and the Linux > userspace is supposed to work really well there, but I haven't tried it yet. > > -Chris --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
