Category: Chrome OS Feature
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New Productivity features on Chromebook !
Google announced a bunch of new features today which take Chromebooks to a new level of productivity. The latest versions of ChromeOS has been slowly rolling out some of these capabilities, but they will fully come to light later this fall when these features are formally launched. Photos has a new Movie editor ! The…
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ChromeOS Flex – Bringing Security & Stability to retired laptops
The simplicity and security which Chromebooks bring has been the driving force for its adoption. The 0-touch upgrades, the fleet-wide Enterprise management and silent security fixes makes it ideal for it to be used by the broader non-technical masses. I myself use it because I know its designed from scratch with security in mind. ChromeOS…
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Multiple Profiles on Chromebooks using LaCrOS
Chromebooks are designed to be personal and requires every user to separately sign in for it to be used. This is slightly different from Chrome on Windows where users are allowed to create multiple “Chrome Profiles” under the same Windows account. Some of us have been using “secondary profiles” in ChromeOS to use Chrome with…
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How to run Ubuntu on Chromebook
Gabe posted a great article on how to replace the built in Debian container on Chromebooks (Crostini) with Ubuntu in his article on Chromeunboxed here. Its important to note that Crostini is designed to allow almost any operating systems to run in it. But the OS running inside needs to be able to communicate with…
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Chrome OS – Lacros to the rescue
Those following Chrome OS development may have noticed efforts being made to launch Lacros on Chrome OS. Development on this has been going for over an year now, and since version 96 some of us have played with it. What is Lacros ? The Word “Lacros” is an acronym of the phrase “Linux And ChRome…
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The brand new Terminal in Chrome OS
Chrome OS version 103 comes with a brand new version of Terminal which is my favorite tool on the Chromebooks after its browser. With this tool, you can not only use the Linux container which is built into Chrome OS, you can now also use it to connect to ssh on remote servers you may…