In today's open source roundup: The Linux Foundation's free Chromebook offer has been extended. Plus: The Ubuntu Touch store gets its first malicious app. And could the Internet exist without Linux?

You can code on Linux without fully switching the OS using tools like WSL, making it accessible to Windows, Mac, and Chromebook users.

I converted a Chromebook into the perfect anti-MacBook by swapping in AMD hardware that can run Linux ...

ChromeOS is Linux-based, enabling installation of Linux apps easily in a full-featured environment on a Chromebook. Enabling Linux on ChromeOS is now simple, with a few steps in the Settings app ...

If you want to go beyond the extensions and Android apps Chrome OS offers, there are a few ways to get Linux up and running to make your Chromebook more versatile.

For those who need to tinker, here are some ways I've found to run alternative Linux distros on a Chromebook.

You’ve probably heard about Google Chromebooks. Like Android, Chrome OS is based on some variant of Linux, but it is targeted at the “cloud first” strategy so Chromebooks typicall… ...

Google Chrome developers have announced plans to roll out DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support to Chrome web browser for Linux. DoH has been supported on Google Chrome for other platforms, including ...