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Based on Gentoo ...Based on Gentoo ...Posted Jan 21, 2011 2:09 UTC (Fri) by vapier (subscriber, #15768)Parent article: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
who said the laptop is based on Ubuntu ? i'm fairly certain it is based on Gentoo. the upstream wiki contains many references to emerge, ebuilds, and USE flags (all of which are hallmarks of only Gentoo), and links directly to Gentoo developer documentation:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide
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Based on Gentoo ... Posted Jan 21, 2011 3:50 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
It *was* ubuntu-based a long time ago, but then they switched to gentoo at some point.
Based on Gentoo ... Posted Feb 7, 2011 11:16 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
My understanding is that it's deb (ubuntu-based) packages built using the gentoo build system, which seems kind of peverse, but there you go. They started off using xdeb (then called chromium-os-builder) to cross-build ubuntu packages but switched to the gentoo tools after a while. I know this because I'm now looking after the xdeb tool and the chromium-os-builder heritage shows through in many places.
Based on Gentoo ... Posted Feb 7, 2011 12:14 UTC (Mon) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Not that perverse. Gentoo/Portage has had support for generating RPM packages for ages. It's just that it usually doesn't.
Simply abstracting the dependencies/names into the right places, changing the tarball to cpio, and instead of padding with metadata, making it into a "proper" rpm or deb.
So, not quite as perverse as you may think, in fact part of the original design of portage/emerge was to allow it ;)
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