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Depthboot: Your Chromebook, your way. No modifying firmware. (eupnea-linux.github.io)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Since that page has zero useful information on it, I found this elsewhere:

Depthboot is a builder script that creates a bootable USB drive/SD-card that can be booted on any x86_64 Chromebook. It supports common Linux distributions(Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora) and a variety of the most popular desktop environments. Due to licensing restraints, Depthboot cannot be distributed as an iso. Instead, it has to be build locally.

It appears to be a way to run Linux direct on device (non-ARM) instead of emulated, though I can't be 100% sure since it doesn't actually say that anywhere obvious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dont try to do full system updates in depthboot, breaks it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@AdventuringAardvark

This looks pretty awesome. I wonder if it supports all Chromebooks?