www/distros common-distros.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       21/05/25 19:43:57

Modified files:
        distros        : common-distros.html 

Log message:
        Describe ChromiumOS.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.122&r2=1.123

Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.122
retrieving revision 1.123
diff -u -b -r1.122 -r1.123
--- common-distros.html 10 May 2021 00:25:10 -0000      1.122
+++ common-distros.html 25 May 2021 23:43:57 -0000      1.123
@@ -271,6 +271,22 @@
 <p>The central part of Chrome OS is the nonfree Chrome browser.
 It may contain other nonfree software as well.</p>
 
+<p>The rest of it is based on <a href="#ChromiumOS">ChroniumOS</a>,
+so it also has the problems of ChroniumOS, plus the nonfree parts of
+Android.</p>
+
+<h3 id="ChromiumOS">ChromiumOS</h3>
+
+<p>ChromiumOS contains proprietary software, including firmware blobs and
+nonfree user-space binaries specific to support specific hardware on
+some computers.</p>
+
+<p>In addition, the login system surveils users, as it requires a Google
+account (ChromiumOS does not support local accounts).  The
+&ldquo;guest&rdquo; session feature is not a real alternative to
+logging in with a Google account, because it doesn't allow persistent
+storage and limits the system's features.</p>
+
 <h3 id="e">/e/</h3>
 
 <p>/e/ (formerly eelo) is a modified version of Android,
@@ -350,7 +366,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/05/10 00:25:10 $
+$Date: 2021/05/25 23:43:57 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>