Chromebook

Community member mYself has posted about these computers. 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.

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03/01/2014 - 23:50
muhammed
11/03/2014 - 06:18
ssdclickofdeath
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pizzaiolo
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