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CloudReady is an operating system designed to basically turn your existing PC into a Chromebook. Launched in 2015, CloudReady makes it easy to replace Windows with an operating system based on Chromium OS (the open source version of Chrome OS). But now you can also create a dual-boot setup on...

So you want a Chromebook… but you’re not thrilled about the idea of sharing data with Google? NayuOS is an operating system designed to run on Chromebooks without sending any data to Google’s servers. It’s a free and open source fork of Chromium OS from developers at Nexedi, and there are...

Now you can run a version of the popular VLC media player on a Chromebook or Chromebox. VLC for Chrome OS doesn’t look exactly like VLC for Windows, Mac, or Linux computers. That’s because this is basically a port of the Android version of the app, made using the tools that Google makes...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will now have a single OS across all its hardware as it combines the two open-source systems: Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine the operating systems and have made progress recently, two of the people said. The...