{"id":14527,"date":"2021-11-02T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=14527"},"modified":"2021-11-24T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T22:06:08","slug":"linux-no-longer-beta-on-chromebooks-gets-more-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/linux-no-longer-beta-on-chromebooks-gets-more-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux No Longer Beta on Chromebooks, Gets More Functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The open source operating system Linux has now officially ended its beta status on Chromebooks and promised more functionality in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users can now run multiple Linux instances simultaneously with their Chromebooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the recent development, compiling code in a container is already possible by activating the new crostini-multi-container flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, there is also a new Chrome OS settings section called &#8220;Manage extra containers&#8221; that lets users know what their current containers are and allows them to create a new one, as well as stop or delete existing ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this new feature still has many flaws, this functionality holds a lot of promise due to the fact that it is capable of making high-end Chromebooks as useful to Linux power users as a top-notch Linux laptop such as a Dell XPS 13 Linux Developer Edition.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chromebook-linux-comes-of-age\/\">original story<\/a> from ZDnet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open source operating system Linux has now officially ended its beta status on Chromebooks and promised more functionality in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-14527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-linux"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}