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