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86 Dev boots a PC from Google Drive storage in the cloud — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2024 12:31 EDT

Dev boots a PC from Google Drive storage in the cloud — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer

A developer has successfully booted a Linux system from Google’s cloud storage platform. After overcoming a multitude of hurdles, they managed to boot a storage-less laptop from Google Drive and thus create a Cloud-Native Computer.

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