Adjust text size: Chrome OS may not look like it, but it started out as Linux. In fact, under the hood, it's still running on some standard Linux components. Google started out with a standard Linux desktop set up and started stripping away anything that wasn't explicitly needed. This still left a bunch of libraries and software, from the low-level stuff, the kernel, the C/C++ libraries and so on, all the way up to the window manager. Still, Google continued to replace the standard components with its own or remove the need for those components. For example, it's now working on the Aura window manager and UI framework. It's a cross-platform framework and it will be hardware accelerated. In Chrome OS, it will mean that Google will finally be able to get rid of GTK+ and the window manag...
