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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by skraelingjar on Saturday April 01, 2017 @06:32PM (#14014530)
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?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by Doctor_Fegg on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:09PM (#14018225)
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_...

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