Posts made by ColtonDRG

@scottalanmiller You make a good point. We should point out more clearly that it won't work on ARM hardware. We do have a hardware compatibility chart here: https://galliumos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility The goal was to make something that would work exceptionally well on the x86_64 hardware out there, because it's very nice cheap hardware, but unfortunately most Linux distros don't work too well out of the box, and ChromeOS is great, but a lot of people want a little more than a glorified web browser.

@scottalanmiller We're targeting all Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, and Broadwell Chromebooks. Many users also reported success with Bay Trail, but we don't officially support that just yet. We also hope to support Braswell. Some of the super old Atom Chromebooks and ARM Chromebooks are not supported. To answer your question simply, it's for x86_64 Chromebooks.

Edit: To clarify, an ARM build could happen at some point in the future, but nobody on the team has any ARM Chromebook, plus we're not even sure how we would go about booting it on those devices since there isn't any custom firmware (or built-in SeaBIOS) that we're aware of. We haven't done a ton of research on those models, so it's possible we missed something obvious. To reiterate, it could happen at some point in the future, but not right now.

Obviously, this is just our first beta. We will definitely have more screenshots, documentation, etc, etc whenever we release version 1.0. The project is targeted at Chromebooks. This is not your average run of the mill Linux distribution. It's an OS that is fully optimized for Chromebooks, so it will work even better than the original ChromeOS. It's not designed to run on regular computers.

@art_of_shred Believe it or not, we don't have the resources to take a professional looking picture of a real Chromebook that will blend with our website.

@Reid-Cooper It is. I don't know what makes you think it's not.

Oh, BTW, I'm on the GalliumOS team.