Chrome OS and Linux - can it be augmented?
by tpprynn from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BEMH)
This is a layman's question really though I'm not quite a novice after a decade of using various distros. On this occasion just interested about this and not planning to attempt anything (I think...).
I downloaded Chromium OS today and am intending to try it with four machines at some point over the weekend. I had a peep at it using Debian's Disk Image Mounter and saw inevitably enough its at least superficial resemblance to the file system I see with my own setups.
After undoing the zipped file half a gigabyte apparently has become about 6gb. My light Debian installs are just under 5gb, built on top of Debian's netinstall iso.
Could an installed Chrome/ Chromium OS be augmented, so that for example you could add for offline use a media player and a text editor, or is there something about the OS that is fundamentally locked?
I am speaking specifically about this OS when installed on a non-Chromebook and am assuming that Chromebook makers do something to limit the hackability of their product.
I downloaded Chromium OS today and am intending to try it with four machines at some point over the weekend. I had a peep at it using Debian's Disk Image Mounter and saw inevitably enough its at least superficial resemblance to the file system I see with my own setups.
After undoing the zipped file half a gigabyte apparently has become about 6gb. My light Debian installs are just under 5gb, built on top of Debian's netinstall iso.
Could an installed Chrome/ Chromium OS be augmented, so that for example you could add for offline use a media player and a text editor, or is there something about the OS that is fundamentally locked?
I am speaking specifically about this OS when installed on a non-Chromebook and am assuming that Chromebook makers do something to limit the hackability of their product.