📑 Table of Contents▼

Crouton (ChromiumOS Universal Chroot Environment) is a set of scripts which allows Ubuntu, Debian, and Kali Linux systems to run parallel to a ChromeOS system.[1] Crouton works by using a chroot instead of dual-booting to allow a user to run desktop environments at the same time: ChromeOS and another environment of the user's choice.[2]

In Google I/O 2019, Google announced all Chromebooks shipped that year onward will be Linux compatible out of the box.[3]

Usage

edit

Crouton requires the user to switch their ChromeOS device to Developer Mode. This requires a full "Powerwash" of the device and enabled the use of special commands in the Crosh terminal. Despite having many Linux distributions to choose from, none are officially supported by their developers. While Crostini has become an officially supported way to run Linux applications, many people still prefer Crouton due to the fact it allows the user to access a desktop environment.

End of life

edit

On March 29, 2025, crouton went End Of Life. The reason is because of a lot of changes in ChromeOS that are affecting Crouton.[4]

References

edit
  1. ^ Bhartiya, Swapnil (November 17, 2014). "How to Easily Install Ubuntu on Chromebook with Crouton". Linux.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  2. ^ Hoffman, Chris (May 3, 2013). "How to Install Ubuntu Linux on Your Chromebook with Crouton". How-To Geek. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  3. ^ All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward, ZDNet
  4. ^ Schneider, David (March 29, 2025). "crouton is now EOL · dnschneid/crouton@59e36db · GitHub". David Schneider. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
edit


Stub icon

This operating-system-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

📚 Artikel Terkait di Wikipedia

Crouton (disambiguation)

as a snack food. Crouton may also refer to: Crouton (computing), a set of scripts for use in ChromeOS Crouton (singer), Jacob "Crouton" Olds, a singer

List of Israeli inventions and discoveries

Eichen from Technion. World's smallest DNA computing machine system – "the smallest biological computing device" ever constructed, according to Guinness

ChromeOS

been possible to run Linux applications in ChromeOS through the use of Crouton, a third-party set of scripts that allows access to a Linux distribution

Chromebook

switch directly on the motherboard to enable or disable write protection. Crouton is a script that allows the installation of Linux distributions from ChromeOS

Dirichlet convolution

Analytic Number Theory. This identity is a little special something I call "croutons". It follows from several chapters worth of exercises in Apostol's classic

List of Linux adopters

ISBN 978-1-4302-1999-6. "Because I can, I installed Ubuntu on my Chromebook using crouton. The desktop…". plus.google.com. Retrieved 7 November 2015. Andone, Claudiu

Apple Design Awards

Gratitude Isuru Wanasinghe NYT Games The New York Times Company Interaction Crouton Devin Davies Rytmos Floppy Club Social Impact Gentler Streak Fitness Tracker

Lyon

dishes include quenelle; gras double; salade lyonnaise (lettuce with bacon, croûtons and a poached egg); and the sausage-based rosette lyonnaise and andouillette