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Booting desktop Linux on the Chromebook Pixel

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Bill Richardson, a software engineer for Google, has detailed how to boot a conventional Linux distribution on the company's new Chromebook Pixel. Google released the Chromebook Pixel last week – the device costs £1,049, has a 13" touchscreen with a resolution of 2560×1700 pixels, a 1.8GHz Core i5 CPU, 4GB RAM and 32GB (64GB for the LTE version) of internal SSD storage. Where previous Chromebooks only supported booting Google's ChromeOS directly, the Pixel has an added option to support a third-party bootloader which enables it to be relatively easily modified to boot stock Linux desktop distributions.

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Comments (2)

tracyanne ·
might be to try to get Linux images cryptographically signed by Google, so they can be booted on ChromOs machines without having to remain in Developer mode.
Fettoosh ·
I believe that is going to be the next step.

Google doesn't feel threatened by Free Software and Distros. They actually look at FOSS to be the development and proving grounds, otherwise they wouldn't have helped and worked with FireFox and sponsored some of KDE projects through Google Summer of Code.

Google knows other business entities need a commercial entity to furnish support to look favorably to FOSS. Google is trying to be what IBM and other large IT companies should have been.

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