Hi Sudoers:
Courtesy of Fremont Unified School District there are now dozens
of expired Chromebooks at Sudo Room waiting to be liberated from
ChromeOS and ready to accept a new operating system; this
involves:
- putting them into developer mode
- disassembling to disable the bootloader firmware write protect
- flashing a new bootloader that overwrites the ChromeOS-locked
bootloader
(See step specifics here: https://bit.ly/cbconvert, for more
background on Sudo Room’s Chromebook Conversion initiative see
https://bit.ly/cbsave)
Wanna help with this tonight at Sudo Room? If you’ve ever wanted a
Linux laptop to explore with you’re also most welcome to convert
one for yourself: we need to build out and broaden Sudo Room’s
internal Linux experience in anticipation of Microsoft’s end of
Windows 10 support in October (e.g. see https://endof10.org/.)
Hopefully see you later, -Peter