On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 18:29, Ian Darwin wrote:
>
> Has anybody installed OpenBSD on these chromebooks? Asus sold a lot of
> them, and they are losing Google's support next month so there should
> be a lot available cheaply if you just want something to travel with
> for email/web/chat.
>
It will most likely not work because:
https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/rockchip/asus-chromebook-flip-c100p
The hardware is locked so that you can only boot the Chrome kernel
(unless somebody knows a workaround). Even a Linux distro will be a
problem, because the userspace will have to be compatible with the
kernel.
Back in 2012, I struggled to install Slackware ARM on a similar
Chromebook and then I gave up (there might be traces of it on the
Slackware-arm mailing list archives).
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Ottavio Caruso
