The team at FlintOS bring you ChromiumOS on RPI! Please test it out and let them know how it performs..
V0.1.5 Flint OS for Pi with an extra helping of Wifi is here! from FlintOS
Update: 12/11/16: The Update Servers are now available. To update from older builds (post version R46-7323), just go to ‘About Chromium OS’ and click on ‘Check for and apply updates’.
New Special Builds out today!
Download 64 bit build from https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R55-8777.0-Special.7z
SHA1: 85f76ad132be7674e0d4a310075062310cfecec9
Download 32 bit build from https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R55-8777.0-Special.7z
SHA1: 8feabfa588ddd67205796f2efaf886677f5e3d50
Fixes:
Enhancements
Known Issues: https://github.com/arnoldthebat/chromiumos/issues
Download 64 bit Vanilla build from https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R55-8777.0-Vanilla.7z
SHA1: c7a5828cdd7c6fd533e22e128a15014c72324960
Download 32 bit Vanilla build from https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R55-8777.0-Vanilla.7z
SHA1: c670d95265b14917a8315a9194d2bbe332d91c31
Please note: there is a new behaviour with the chronos user password. The password has been removed from this build and will continue to be removed for better overall security.
This means you need to use ‘chromeos-setdevpasswd’ from either shell or console to set your own password from this build onwards.
By default, this also disables SSH access so if you also need this level of access, you will need to set a separate password using ‘sudo passwd chronos’. This allows the password for dev access and SSH access to remain separate if needed.
You can also just set a password using ‘sudo passwd chronos’ and this will allow for both dev and SSH access if you need to keep the passwords the same. Do not use ‘chromeos-setdevpasswd’ if you want to keep the passwords the same.
Update 14/08/16 – Dev server updates are now available. To update from older builds (post version R46-7323), just go to ‘About Chromium OS’ and click on ‘Check for and apply updates’. This is with regard to Special builds only and not the new Vanilla builds noted below.
New Special Builds out today!
Download 64 bit Special build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R54-8659.0-Special.7z
SHA1: 9d8461bf2a5c1c7523d676bc3e9418df82f864ec
Download 32 bit Special build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R54-8659.0-Special.7z
SHA1: 0a06c1e04c165d3f3415d6725143331e10a1e954
Fixes:
Enhancements
Known Issues: https://github.com/arnoldthebat/chromiumos/issues
The Update Server will be made available in the next week or so.
In addition to the Special Builds, there are now enhanced Vanilla builds. These allow Google Drive integration and certain enhanced media codecs. This should allow the users with working daily builds more functionality and usability.
These Vanilla builds will also update automatically as and when I get the Update Server ready.
Please do not log issues with the Vanilla build since they are a courtesy build and will only work on devices with Freon supported graphics and CMT supported touch pads. WiFi and Ethernet will also have reduced support.
Download 64 bit Vanilla build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R54-8659.0-Vanilla.7z
SHA1: 4d5b6e4f10a43cc6ed2b2b41ec8270a7728ed99f
Download 32 bit Vanilla build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R54-8659.0-Vanilla.7z
SHA1: 2e8d8c5c8a26bc2ec06fd47e061ef24110b0acfd
Update 08/06/16 – Dev server updates are now available. To update from older builds (post version R46-7323), just go to ‘About Chromium OS’ and click on ‘Check for and apply updates’.
New Special Builds out today!
Download 64 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R52-8268.0-Special.7z
Download 32 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R52-8268.0-Special.7z
Fixes:
Enhancements
Known Issues: https://github.com/arnoldthebat/chromiumos/issues
The Update Server will be made available in the next week or so.
Update 06/03/16 – Dev server updates are now available. To update from older builds (post version R46-7323), just go to ‘About Chromium OS’ and click on ‘Check for and apply updates’.
New Special Builds out today! Apologies for the epic delay in getting this released.
Download 64 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R50-7881.0-Special.7z
Download 32 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R50-7881.0-Special.7z
Fixes:
Enhancements
Known Issues: https://github.com/arnoldthebat/chromiumos/issues
Hi All
Just a quick note to say the updatable builds (the ‘U’ builds) will be discontinued as from now since they don’t actually update cleanly! It’s forcibly disabled in the update engine code.
I’ll revisit later but its low priority in the larger scheme of things.
New Special Builds out today!
Fixes:
Enhancements
Known Issues: https://github.com/arnoldthebat/chromiumos/issues
New Special Builds out today!
Download 64 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R47-7451.0-Special.7z
Download 32 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R47-7451.0-Special.7z
Download 64 bit USB build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R47-7451.0.U-Special.7z
Download 32 bit USB build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R47-7451.0.U-Special.7z
Fixes:
Enhancements
Known Issues: https://github.com/arnoldthebat/chromiumos/issues
Synaptics drivers are still the default for touchpad as per my previous post. CMT is proving challenging to get working on all devices currently without a myriad of config files!
In addition, I need to do some additional tidying to make the builds more portable across build servers. Ill be doing this prior to bug fixing for the next build.
Ill be retiring the vanilla VirtualBox VDI builds toward the end of September.
The reason is the builds have had a lack of graphics support for some time now so aren’t really workable. I wont remove the builds until they age out automatically however, so feel free to download as needed since the OS still boots and the network will connect.
Special Build deployments with VirtualBox/VMware graphics support will be coming ‘soon’!
New special builds out today!
Download 64 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R46-7323.0-Special.7z
Download 32 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R46-7323.0-Special.7z
New Features:
Updateable USB versions. No need to install to your hard drive anymore since Dev Server updates should now work direct to USB drive! These should start to work from the next special build deployment onwards.
Download 64 bit USB build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R46-7323.0.U-Special.7z
Download 32 bit USB build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R46-7323.0.U-Special.7z
Fixes:
None – Maintenence Release
Known Issues:
Synaptics drivers are still the default so whilst these work well, I’ll need to port to CMT soon for OS based support so users can change settings. This means that in settings, the keyboard and mouse are seen as not detected (but still work fine).
Other News:
Dev Server updates are available as per http://arnoldthebat.co.uk/wordpress/2015/07/11/dev-server-now-available-for-special-builds/ .
In addition, stateful updates are working again for the special builds but currently rely on a little editing. In order to fix for now, please update your /etc/lsb-release to reflect the changes below from shell after you have successfully updated your build and prior to reboot
sudo su mount -o remount, rw / vi /etc/lsb-release
CHROMEOS_DEVSERVER=http://chromebld.arnoldthebat.co.uk:9080 CHROMEOS_AUSERVER=http://chromebld.arnoldthebat.co.uk:9080/update
For x86 builds
CHROMEOS_DEVSERVER=http://chromebld.arnoldthebat.co.uk:9090 CHROMEOS_AUSERVER=http://chromebld.arnoldthebat.co.uk:9090/update
Then type the following and reboot once completed.
sudo stateful_update
I’ll be looking to hardcode the dev server end points for the next special build update so that only an optional stateful_update command is needed.
As ever, please test and feedback!