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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS.
ChromeOS has allowed Debian applications to easily run on Google Chromebooks while now with this Distrobox support for ChromeOS, it opens the door for allowing other graphical applications to run from nearly any Linux distribution.
This ChromeOS + Distrobox integration was led by Red Hat engineer Eric Curtin.
Once installing Podman on ChromeOS it's now easy with the Distrobox development code as of today to begin enjoying other distributions and vendor software from within this containerized environment.
This merge request following earlier work was merged to Distrobox for enabling ChromeOS as a supported host.
This has been tested on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) Chromebooks.
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