On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 12:08:44 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, December 3, 2016 5:58:29 PM EST Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sat, 03 Dec 2016, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > Google has hired a few core developers as has Gaikai. Both seem > > > to be good, though not sure Google is giving back as much given > > > their financial benefit. Gaikai isn't selling an OS, but Google > > > is based on Gentoo... > > > > That last bit is not true. While yes, Chrome OS and Core OS had a > > Gentoo base, a lot was done of top of that. > > I realize I left out ChromeOS in the previous comment, last bit. I > was not meaning to imply Google ran on Gentoo, just ChromeOS was > based on it. > > Thanks for some insight into Google though! > I think you will find that ChromeOS is not really based on Gentoo, but built using Gentoo as the base os it IS built from. It is still Linux based, but ChromeOS doe not use ebuilds and such for normal operations. But the binary pkgs that build it are custom built using Gentoo's ebuild system and modified package management systems. The final resulting OS has it's own methods of updating itself and installing the binaries. (At least that is the way it was some years ago, last I had looked) -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
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