Chromebook Cyber Tools Help Secure Schools Against Digital Assaults

 

Chromebook Cyber Tools Help Secure Schools Against Digital Assaults

The first Chromebooks shipped on June 15, 2011. As of 2020, Chromebook’s market share is 10.8%, placing it above the Mac platform; it has mainly found success in education markets. Since 2021 all Chromebooks receive 10 years of regular automatic updates with security patches from Google, previously it was 8 years. Chromebooks can be repurposed with other operating systems and/or used for other purposes if required.

In May 2018, Google announced it would make Linux desktop applications available on Chromebooks via a virtual machine code-named “Crostini”. ChromeOS, which runs on Chromebooks, is already based on the Linux kernel, but it does not provide default support for applications that expect a GNU-based system. Crostini left the beta stage in May 2021 as part of release 91. Google maintains a list of devices that were launched before 2019, which support Crostini