# Linux Action News 53

URL: /show/linux-action-news/53/
> It's confirmed Linux apps are coming to Chrome OS. Google is finally putting pressure on OEMs to ship security patches, and we try Android of Things.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 53
- Date: 2018-05-13
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:29:02
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/aee4f93b-4f93-4f69-8ffa-3d455ecbd67d.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCwYAFcEbO0



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### Episode Links

  * [Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed](https://www.blog.google/products/chromebooks/linux-on-chromebooks/ "Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed") — Linux runs inside a virtual machine that was designed from scratch for Chromebooks.
  * [It could be a while before Linux apps work well on Chrome OS](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/09/linux_chrome_os/ "It could be a while before Linux apps work well on Chrome OS") — There are other bits of glue, such as these in-container tools, to run whatever programs you want within a Linux VM within a Chrome OS container.
  * [Google puts pressure on OEMs over Android patches](https://www.xda-developers.com/google-require-oem-regular-security-patches/ "Google puts pressure on OEMs over Android patches") — “We’ve also worked on building security patching into our OEM agreements. Now this will really … lead to a massive increase in the number of devices and users receiving regular security patches.” – David Kleidermacher, Google’s head of Android platform security 
  * [Android Things is finally ready for devices](https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17320414/android-things-1-release-commercial-devices-google-io-2018 "Android Things is finally ready for devices") — Android Things is hitting its 1.0 release today after launching to developers at the end of 2016.
  * [Android Things 1.0](https://www.xda-developers.com/android-things-1-0-commercial-iot-products/ "Android Things 1.0")
  * [Clarity on CoreOS and Red Hat](https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-what-happens-to-coreos-now-that-red-hat-owns-it/ "Clarity on CoreOS and Red Hat") — As for CoreOS's existing customers? Breard promises that "No users or communities will be left behind."
  * [Red Hat and Microsoft bring OpenShift to Azure](https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-and-microsoft-bring-openshift-to-azure/ "Red Hat and Microsoft bring OpenShift to Azure") — With this new offering, you will be able to more easily move your applications between on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure. This is because they are leveraging a consistent container platform in OpenShift across the hybrid cloud. 
  * [WSL coming to Arm](https://liliputing.com/2018/05/windows-on-arm-is-getting-64-bit-app-support-and-a-linux-subystem.html "WSL coming to Arm") — As spotted by the folks at Neowin, during a presentation at the MS Build developer conference this week, Microsoft also showed Ubuntu running on a Windows 10 on ARM computer, meaning that Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) will be among the 64-bit apps you can install on these computers.