Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
by skraelingjar on Saturday April 01, 2017 @06:32PM
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Aside from having to install software for the back-lit keyboard I have no problems with Ubuntu 16.10 on my 2015 Toshiba Chromebook 2 (other than the part where nothing prevents the battery draining to 0% and everything getting erased). Why do you need Gallium and specific firmware?
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
by Doctor_Fegg on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:09PM
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New (Bay Trail/Braswell) Chromebooks don't have legacy boot support: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Firmware
Xorg doesn't initialise the display hardware to a usable state when the machine is running current Chrome OS, requiring firmware rollback: https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/320
GalliumOS has numerous optimisations for Chromebook hardware: https://wiki.galliumos.org/About_GalliumOS#Why_GalliumOS_as_...
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
by komali2 on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:39PM
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Which Chromebook do you mean?
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
by Doctor_Fegg on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:08AM
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Mine's an HP 11in G5, FWIW.
- HEADLINE: Work out-of-the-box on Chromebooks
- DESCRIPTION: Turns out you have two choices for a well-built ultralight notebook: a MacBook (£1250) or a Chromebook (£250). The Chromebook can run Ubuntu, and run it well. But right now it requires a specially optimised version of Ubuntu (GalliumOS) and faffing around with firmware versions. If Ubuntu was easy to install on Chromebooks as it is on desktops or regular notebooks, that'd be a massive selling point for the OS.