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Exactly what Google has done with ChromeOS 67. You can run GNU/Linux applications as containers. But extra safe as a container on a separate kernel through a VM using KVM.

Versus they did Android as a container on the same Linux kernel as ChromeOS. But locked to only an Android container.

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You mention "run GNU/Linux applications as containers" but is that a full dev environment? As in, I can open a cpp file or whatever, make a change, run a single command and I can see my changes?

Yes a full dev environment as of ChromeOS 67.

How you want to use is your choice.

But it looks like Google will package GNU/Linux applications as containers that you can just run.

You can use what they have enabled in other ways as I am already doing on a PB with ChromeOS 67.

> You can run GNU/Linux applications as containers.

Do you need to run gnu/linux apps inside containers or can they just run inside the VM running on top of chromeos?

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