Version von Chromebook vom Mo, 02/10/2025 - 07:33
Durch die Versionierung lassen sich die Unterschiede zwischen verschiedenen Versionen eines Beitrags verfolgen.
It has been reported (here) that Libreboot’s arm64 supported Chromebooks are having problems starting Trisquel’s 11.0.1 arm64 installer. For this reason, the following manual was created as a workaround to install Trisquel on this devices: here.
In a different note, community member mYself has posted about some Chromebook computers in the past. It involves swapping parts (wifi?). Here is his info:
The Chromebook Pixel is one of the most freedom-friendly computers currently available on the market (verify). It comes with a free BIOS, and free software friendly wifi card and GPU (verify).
Chromebooks are one of the few commercially available computers that ship with Coreboot. The Chromebooks' Coreboot is blobbed --it contains proprietary software--, because Intel doesn't want to release source code for their microcodes). Read on:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/acer-c7-chromebook-updates
Here are the instructions on how to install GNU/Linux on the Chromebook Pixel, if you decide to buy from Google.
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel%5flinux.txt
Question: are all Chromebooks free-software-friendly? For each model -- what works, and what doesn't work?
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/does-trisquel-run-many-chromebooks
Free Software compatible laptop? https://trisquel.info/en/forum/free-software-compatible-laptop-0
coreboot and SeaBIOS http://trisquel.info/en/forum/acer-c7-chromebook-updates
x86 models only; Trisquel does not support ARM processors http://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-samsung-chromebook
Although Google has done some good things for the free software community [cite], they distribute proprietary software, and promote services-as-a-substitute-for-software, not to mention the numerous privacy concerns that Google has raised.
