Yooooo, this is exciting.
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Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.
I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!
Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource
@codemonkeymike Cool! I was recently donated a (x86_64) HP 14 G4, which I'm still deciding what to do with since it only has 16GB of storage. I'm leaning towards building my own images of openfyde and hosting my own OTA server currently.
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@codemonkeymike Cool! I was recently donated a (x86_64) HP 14 G4, which I'm still deciding what to do with since it only has 16GB of storage. I'm leaning towards building my own images of openfyde and hosting my own OTA server currently.
@Techwizz yeah the 16g of storage ones are rough. I actually have a blessed way i've been upcycleing them with debian 13 XFCE. I'm thinking about doing a video and article on it
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@codemonkeymike Yes pmOS ist pretty nice and lightweight. I slapped it on my old #Thinkpad just with one dd command. Wanted to try #posh on desktop
@r3vilo what did you think of Posh on the desktop? I put XFCE on this, but curious to try phosh
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@codemonkeymike Nice! I tried to do the same on an old chromebook earlier but gave up after a couple of hours. How was the process?
@stovis frustrating lol.. when I get through the papercuts, I want to write an article / video on it
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@Techwizz yeah the 16g of storage ones are rough. I actually have a blessed way i've been upcycleing them with debian 13 XFCE. I'm thinking about doing a video and article on it
@codemonkeymike My only concern with that would be major updates (if you're not already handling that in some way)
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@codemonkeymike My only concern with that would be major updates (if you're not already handling that in some way)
@Techwizz I enable unattented upgrades with debian 13. It won't auto upgrade to debian 14, but debian has such a long support window, this seemed like a good tradeoff
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Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.
I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!
Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource
@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org Ooh my goodness that is fantastic
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@codemonkeymike My only concern with that would be major updates (if you're not already handling that in some way)
@Techwizz "Debian 13 "Trixie" is expected to be released in August 2025, with standard security support lasting for three years until
August 9, 2028. Following the standard support period, it will receive Extended Long Term Support (ELTS), extending its life to roughly June 30, 2030" -
@Techwizz I enable unattented upgrades with debian 13. It won't auto upgrade to debian 14, but debian has such a long support window, this seemed like a good tradeoff
@codemonkeymike Yeah, that is true, that seems reasonable to me. Thanks for sharing, I'll see what route I end up going. I'm also considering making a desktop/laptop version of my distro from scratch (currently just for virtualization, but very small base), and just include xfce as a DE and flatpak. It's immutable using BTRFS snapshots and is likely feasible here.
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@codemonkeymike Yeah, that is true, that seems reasonable to me. Thanks for sharing, I'll see what route I end up going. I'm also considering making a desktop/laptop version of my distro from scratch (currently just for virtualization, but very small base), and just include xfce as a DE and flatpak. It's immutable using BTRFS snapshots and is likely feasible here.
@codemonkeymike For now I think I'll go with Debian 13 though, I think that is a good route to go with these.
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@codemonkeymike For now I think I'll go with Debian 13 though, I think that is a good route to go with these.
@Techwizz i mean there's no wrong way to Linux! use whatever calls to you. But debian is always a good boring, but solid, choice
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Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.
I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!
Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource
@codemonkeymike Oh that's a funky one. PostmarketOS is what I'm running on my arm64 Chromebook and it works fantastic. I had to manually change some of the keyboard layout, but otherwise good. I'm interested to hear later how it went with this one on a armv7 32-bit CPU.
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I have an old Lenovo Duet tablet
Chromebook that I want to try using with PostMarketOS. Thanks for posting -
@stovis frustrating lol.. when I get through the papercuts, I want to write an article / video on it
@codemonkeymike yeah that would be great!
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@r3vilo what did you think of Posh on the desktop? I put XFCE on this, but curious to try phosh
@codemonkeymike It's very very similar to GNOME. Overall, a good usable system for browsing the internet, office etc., didn't try gaming.
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Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.
I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!
Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource
@codemonkeymike Nice, I used on of these with Arch Linux ARM as a study computer when studying in libraries for about two years, until I upgraded to the RK3399 C101P. Having a small, light, fanless computer was really useful.
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