Matt Hartley: ChromeOS vs Linux: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In: datamation.com. 16. September 2014, abgerufen am 15. Januar 2015: „ChromeOS isn't really Linux. When folks ask me if ChromeOS is a Linux distribution, I usually reply that ChromeOS is to Linux what OS X is to BSD. In other words, I consider ChromeOS to be a forked operating system that uses the Linux kernel under the hood. Much of the operating system is made up of Google's own proprietary blend of code and software. So while the ChromeOS is using the Linux kernel under its hood, it's still very different from what we might find with today's modern Linux distributions“
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The secret origins of Google's Chrome OS. Many people know that Chrome OS is based on Linux. But where did Google's operating system actually come from -- and what is it made of today? Here's its story. In: ZDnet. CBS Interactive, 6. April 2013, abgerufen am 15. Januar 2015 (englisch).