Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)

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est31 · 2020-03 · Recommendation

Chrome OS is a very secure Linux distro. While the base system is very restricted, they also support Linux sandboxes, making it secure for you to use the computer both for online banking and for downloading random code from the internet. Check out the talk "Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development": [VIDEO]

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mdhb · 2024-10 · Reference

Even when you enable “developer mode” which is essentially Debian in a VM the level of care that went into making sure that no matter what happens there you will never suffer a full system compromise is truly impressive. To give you a sense of where they were half a decade ago you can already see that it’s as I described miles in front of anything that exists even today in this video: [VIDEO] When we get to talking about when they went for a total ground up first principles approach with Fuchsia as a next generation operating system that is something else entirely on a different level again. I genuinely didn’t have a hint of irony in my original comment. They are actually that much better when it comes to security.

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pjmlp · 2023-08 · Reference

That is a VM, similar in concept to WSL on Windows, with the difference that the host is also Linux based. "Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development" [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

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