Having Python2 means that it is easy to run an HTTP server on the local network and develop web applications! For people who care about privacyĬhromium OS is fully Open Source.

Learning: Because you have to find how to do things on the web instead of finding a command in your terminal, it is a nice way to learn modern web and become up to date on web technologies.Ĭhromium OS is much more developer-friendly, since there is a large range of tools for development (Python2.7, gdb.Speed: Chromebooks boot fast (you will mostly use the web, so there is not much on your computer anyway).

Freedom: There is no tying: you won't pay a Windows license and most of them are using Coreboot instead of a proprietary BIOS! But Chrome OS's sources are not open, and that is why we prefer Chromium OS.

Price: Chromebooks are very cheap devices! The cheapest one is around $150.

Security: Chrome and Chromium OS have a specific security policy, using sandboxes as a security mechanism to isolate different processes and don't let them access the file system from inside a sandbox, not having packet installation because there are web application to answer all the user's need, encrypting each user's partition independently.

Why choosing Chromebooks with Chrom* OS instead of another GNU/Linux distribution? We only create Free Software (see our full stack) so we want to have a Free alternative for Chrome OS which fits our needs. NayuOS is an ongoing project at Nexedi: since we mainly use Chromebooks as part of our development tools, we want to have more customizable, secure and privacy-compliant devices.

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