Speaking of Chromebooks, David Ruddock, opines at AndroidPolice: Chrome OS’ problems really became apparent to me when Android app compatibility was introduced, around five years ago. Getting Android apps to run on Chrome OS was simultaneously one of the Chrome team’s greatest achievements and one of its worst mistakes. In 2019, two things are more obvious than ever about the Android…
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The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is Beautiful, Fast, and Expensive
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is one of the nicest pieces of laptop hardware I’ve touched in a very long time. Not since Google’s 2017 Pixelbook has there been a ChromeOS device this good looking, this powerful, or — here’s the rub — this expensive. Available sometime in the first quarter, the Galaxy Chromebook starts at…
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching
Google today released Chrome 79 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS users. This release comes with security and bug fixes, but also with new features such as built-in support for the Password Checkup tool, real-time blacklisting of malicious sites via the Safe Browsing API, general availability of Predictive Phishing protections, a ban on loading HTTPS “mixed content,” support…
Google Is Terminating Google Cloud Print
Google has announced that Cloud Print, its cloud-based printing solution, is being retired at the end of next year. 9to5Google reports: The announcement comes in the form of a support document for Cloud Print that popped up recently, which is kind enough to remind us that Cloud Print has technically been in beta since it launched a decade ago: “Cloud Print,…
Chrome OS 78 Rolling Out With Picture-In-Picture Support For YouTube, Split Browser/Device Settings, More
The latest version of Chrome OS, version 78, adds separate browser and device settings, click-to-call, and picture-in-picture support for YouTube. It also introduces virtual desktop support for the operating system with a feature called Virtual Desks. 9to5Google reports: Chrome is getting another cross-device sharing feature after “Send this page” widely rolled in September. With “click-to-call,” you can right-click on phone number…
Chrome OS Bug Started Mistakenly Sending ‘Final Update’ Notifications
An anonymous reader quotes 9to5Google: Like it or not, Chromebooks do have something of an expiration date when you purchase them, namely that one day they’ll stop receiving updates. Thankfully, that date is typically over five years after the Chromebook’s original release. For some, however, Chrome OS has been wrongly indicating this week that their Chromebook has received its “final update”…
Celebrating the 28th Anniversary of the Linux Kernel
Exactly 28 years ago today, a 21-year-old student named Linus Torvalds made a fateful announcement on the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix. i-Programmer commemorates today’s anniversary with some interesting trivia: Back in 1991 the fledgling operating system didn’t have a name, according to Joey Sneddon’s 27 Interesting Facts about Linux: Linux very nearly wasn’t called Linux! Linus wanted to call his “hobby” project…
Is It Finally the Year of ‘Linux on the Desktop’ ?
“2019 is truly, finally shaping up to be the year of Linux on the desktop,” writes PC World’s senior editor, adding “Laptops, too!” But most people won’t know it. That’s because the bones of the open-source operating system kernel will soon be baked into Windows 10 and Chrome OS, as Microsoft and Google revealed at their respective developer conferences this week……