Chromebooks - Utility and Adaptations
- Availability at Amazon.com
- Ultrathin laptops
- Small form factor
- Limited power consumption
- Lightweight computing
- ARM platforms available
- Exynos System on a Chip (SoC) in select Chromebooks manufactured by Samsung
- Availability at Amazon.com
- Stocked with Chromium OS
- Chromium OS development
- Web-oriented architecture
- Google Chrome browser
- Google Chrome app store
- Google docs, etc
- Dissimilar to a conventional desktop environment
- Chromium OS is locked into platform
- Alternatives to ChromiumOS?
- With some modifications to the platform, a complete OS installation can be made
- ...in chroot (e.g with Crouton)
- ...in dual boot (e.g with ChrUbuntu)
- ...or "bare metal"
- Bare metal installation with original BIOS
- 'Developer mode' still enabled
- OS can be wiped inadvertently
- Legacy BIOS must be accessed for each boot
- Bare metal installation with custom BIOS
- Flashing the Chromebook BIOS - non-trivial
- Hardware modifications then required
- Vendor-specific
- Proceed at own discretion
- Allows for further flexibility in applying the Chromebook as a hardware platform
- Documentation: Installing Bodhi Linux on a Chromebook [Bodhi Linux wiki]
- Option 1: Install for dual boot [Bodhi Linux Wiki]
- Option 2: Bare metal install with upstream BIOS [Bodhi Linux Wiki]
- Option 3: Bare metal install with custom BIOS
- Not documented at Bodhi Linux Wiki
- Hardware modifications previous to flashing BIOS
- Proceed at own discretion
- Documentation: Coreboot and Chromebook platforms
- Documentation: Compilng Coreboot
- Documentation: flashrom utility
- Documentation: Developer information, Chromebook hardware
- The "Bricked Chromebook" - proceed at own discretion
- Case Study: Samsung Chromebook (Exynos 5250)
- ARM architecture
- Overview, published by The Chromium Projects
- Hardware teardown, published by iFixIt
- Further resources: Custom firmware images for Chromebooks, pre-compiled
- Proceed at own discretion
- Chrome OS Devices, information at the Arch Linux wiki
- Custom firmware, pre-compiled for Intel Chromebooks
- Custom firmware via Anrold the Bat
- CARMOS: For ARM architectures
- Camd64OS: For amd64 architectures
- Further wrench-turning may be required.
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