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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 (here) was created as a workaround to install Trisquel on this devices. You might find a review of one of such devices here and a supported group here started by user arielenter.
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.
