breath VS chromebrew

Compare breath vs chromebrew and see what are their differences.

breath

Linux for Chromebooks (by cb-linux)

chromebrew

Package manager for Chrome OS [Moved to: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew] (by skycocker)
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breath chromebrew
32 26
266 1,924
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9.7 9.8
over 1 year ago almost 2 years ago
Shell Ruby
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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breath

Posts with mentions or reviews of breath. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-26.

chromebrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromebrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-07.
  • Archer T2U Plus
    1 project | /r/chromeos | 1 Aug 2022
    Hello, I have a TP Link Archer T2U Plus adapter with RTL8821AU and I would like to use it on my PC, could you help me? PD: I have tried to install the Linux subsystem but I get an error, so I tried something from this post although I don't know how to use it https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew
  • What about Linux?
    1 project | /r/chrultrabook | 14 Jun 2022
  • is cross limitless shell?
    1 project | /r/chromeos | 7 Apr 2022
  • This sub right now
    4 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 7 Apr 2022
  • Chrome OS Adventure Installing firefox
    2 projects | /r/chromeos | 29 Mar 2022
    I see, to give you a point of view i should mention that Chrome OS itself is a Linux, to test what i mean you can press ctrl+alt+t and crosh terminal window will open(it is different than Linux development environment), now type "uname -a" and you'll see which kernel version it is, and it is actually capable of running regular GNU/Linux applications as expected(*See chromebrew for real world example). Why did they chose virtual machine approach for running regular GNU/Linux applications is for babysitting reasons, and embracing web apps as it is made as thin client rather than full blown OS.
  • With verity disabled, can apt pkg system be installed on cloudReady
    1 project | /r/cloudready | 28 Mar 2022
  • Do GNOME Shell extensions work in Chrome OS?
    2 projects | /r/chromeos | 23 Mar 2022
    Or you could install Chromebrew and use sommelier
  • Do you use ChromeOS as intended?
    1 project | /r/chromeos | 1 Mar 2022
    As a Chromebrew dev... lololol. :)
  • Trying to understand what Chrome OS/Crostini really is and getting a clear hierarchical diagram in my head..
    3 projects | /r/Crostini | 12 Feb 2022
    2- The terminal you see when you activate Linux support is not the terminal of Chrome OS itself but the terminal of virtual machine called Crostini.Although Chrome OS itself is capable of running containers running on top of same kernel(Crouton for real world example) or running GNU/Linux apps even without needing Crostini virtual machine(Flatpak support on the Cloudready and Chromebrew Package Manager directly running on top of Chrome OS for the real world example), see the page below for understanding why they chose this approach(TL; DR Babysitting reasons for someone who uses sudo for everything):
  • Would you guys consider Chrome OS a Linux distro?
    1 project | /r/chromeos | 12 Jan 2022
    Chrome OS itself is pretty much capable of running regular GNU/Linux programs without needing a virtual machine like Crostini, there is even a package manager for it. However like i said Google chooses only using web apps route, Crostini is meant to be only for development purposes and pretty much limited like usb or internal hardware access(like camera) and even the screen sharing itself.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing breath and chromebrew you can also consider the following projects:

crouton - Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

galliumos-skylake

chromium_os-raspberry_pi - Build your Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 4B, Pi400 and the latest Raspberry Pi 5

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

cb-linux - [OLD] Repository now located at github.com/cb-linux/breath

Git - Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

brcr-update - Script to update Chrome OS installed using the brunch framework

redroid-doc - redroid (Remote-Android) is a multi-arch, GPU enabled, Android in Cloud solution. Track issues / docs here

sklnau8825max-on-linux - This guide will present ways of getting the sklnau8825max sound card to work under the mainline Linux kernel

fusuma-plugin-sendkey - Fusuma plugin that sending virtual keyboard events