@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 6 months agoThis laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browserlemmy.worldimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1549arrow-down112
arrow-up1537arrow-down1imageThis laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browserlemmy.world@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squarefunkajunklinkfedilinkEnglish84•6 months agoThis device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol’ Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS. There’s also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM
minus-squarethanevimlinkfedilink11•6 months agoRunning xfce4 Fedora brilliantly on an old Dell Chromebook thanks to this, fully recommended!!
minus-squareLemmylinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoI’m pretty sure two gru_bob and gru_kevin have Libreboot support. I forget the name of the exact laptops, it should be in their documentation
This device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech
Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol’ Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS.
There’s also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM
Running xfce4 Fedora brilliantly on an old Dell Chromebook thanks to this, fully recommended!!
I’m pretty sure two gru_bob and gru_kevin have Libreboot support. I forget the name of the exact laptops, it should be in their documentation