GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks

Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by tedmiston on Saturday March 26, 2016 @10:41AM (#11365773)

> ARM models are not supported: they do not ship with compatible firmware, and custom firmware is not presently available

Can someone this explain this more?

I was hoping to blow the dust off my original Samsung Chromebook.

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Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by dheera on Saturday March 26, 2016 @12:56PM (#11366356)

I was hoping to have this on my Asus Chromebook Flip. A lot of the ARM machines are wonderfully thin and light with very impressive battery life. It would be great if they could get full-fledged OSes as well.

Crouton works perfectly, but it would be nice if I could give a Linux distro the full 16GB of eMMC instead of X gigabytes of disk image within the 16GB.

Bonus points if I could dual-boot Android and GalliumOS on an ARM laptop. That would be killer.

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Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by pgeorgi on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:44AM (#11366038)

All Chromebooks since 2013 use the same code base, no matter the architecture (coreboot + depthcharge).

People have problems on non-x86 because there's no default replacement for depthcharge that can be made to work with ~0 effort.

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Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by breul99 on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:43AM (#11366036)

Depending on the model you may want to try https://archlinuxarm.org

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