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DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports (neuters.de)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If this happens, I'd be interested in seeing how this effects ChromeOS. I don't use it but my mom does.

Also, if you're confused as to why ChromeOS would be effected, while it's based on Gentoo Linux, ChromeOS uses a modified version of Chrome as it's Desktop Environment.

[–] btaf45 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yes I would like to know what that means for ChromeOS and Chromebooks. If the new "Chrome" company got ChromeOS also that would be huge. But if that is not a requirement Google could just put another Chromium browser in ChromeOS. They could also continue to sell Chromebooks but based on a ChromiumOS fork.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its based on debian now :(

Depending on what version

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, it's still based on Gentoo, it just uses Debian for running Linux applications in Crostini.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh go figure, my bad :P