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Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS

Posted by timothy on from the low-level-churn-at-a-high-level dept.

An anonymous reader writes With this week's release of Chrome OS M41, there is the new Freon graphics stack to replace X11 on some platforms. Freon is a very limited graphics stack to replace Chrome OS usage of X11/X.Org by having the Chrome browser communicate directly with the Linux kernel's KMS/DRM API and OpenGL ES interfaces for drawing. This design is much simpler and yields various power and performance improvements though it's not based on Wayland nor Mir (though Chrome plans to support these display server models).

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  1. Re: The Browser is NOT the OS by the_humeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How does this affect people using Crouton? Will X still work or will we actually have to dual boot a real Linux distribution rather than run it in a chroot?