Technology media Ars Technica reported that Google is separating ChromeOS' browser from the operating system -- making it more like Linux. While nothing official has been announced yet, the change will likely roll out in this month's version update.
According to reports, Google named the project " Lacros " - which stands for " Linux A nd C h R ome OS " . This means separating the ChromeOS Linux operating system from the Chrome browser so that both can be updated independently .
Lacros has been in development for about two years and is currently enabled by turning on the corresponding switch in the Chrome flag.
Google wrote in the document about Lacros: "The system UI (window manager, login interface, etc.) of Chrome OS and the web browser are located in the same binary file. After separation, it will become two binary files, namely ash-chrome ( system UI) and lacros-chrome (web browser).
In addition to improving the ChromeOS operating system, this move can also add more support for Wayland (Linux chrome with more Wayland support).
ChromeOS previously used Google's own graphics stack Freon , and Wayland is currently a graphics stack widely used by Linux systems and applications including Android, and it will be used as the native graphics stack of ChromeOS. In fact, when Google switched to Freon in 2016, it could have switched to Wayland directly from X11 (the old desktop Linux graphics stack), but it chose to take a detour.
On the browser side, ChromeOS will stop using Chrome customized for ChromeOS in favor of Chrome for Linux directly. So the browser you use on Ubuntu is now also available on ChromeOS.
In view of the fact that Microsoft built the Edge browser with the Chromium kernel, some netizens thought : "If Microsoft adopts the operating system separated from ChromeOS, adds Edge, and then builds EdgeOS that runs on Edgebook, Edgebox and other devices, that is really too much. Ironic."
