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> Not sure "WASP-y" applies much of anywhere in Rhode Island. It's reportedly[0] the most Roman Catholic state in the U.S. It definitely does. Barrington, East Greenwich, North Kin…

ChromeOS does not use an on-disk swap partition. Your SSD died just because cheap SSDs like those typically found in Chromebooks die early. :( ChromeOS uses zram instead of physica…

Which 11e? GLIMMER or ULTIMA? What issues are you having?

You can hide the dev mode screen, or disable the functionality completely, with a firmware update. It's a very common (and safe) procedure. There's a good write up at https://wiki.…

The hardware list should be correct. The ARM machines you linked are Acer Chromebooks 13s (CB5-311), not Chromebook 11s. The 2016 11s are Intel Bay Trail, and supported. GalliumOS …

You're right, that could be more clear. We plan to add ARM support, but we aren't there yet. Sorry for the disappointment. There are 101 (really) Chromebook models, past and presen…

Thank you for the info. The work on third-party firmware is not directly a part of GalliumOS, but the projects are symbiotic. You've probably encountered the folks who focus on fir…

Parts of the factory firmware are open, including coreboot and SeaBIOS (where applicable) -- but not the whole ROM, and none of the build configurations are published, as far as I …

The custom firmware options are open source, so you would be miles ahead of where you started with the factory firmware.

Dual-boot on Bay Trail is a very recent development and not all of the docs have been updated yet. https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility is correct. https://wiki.galliu…

Not sure where you live, Phil, but that's absolutely not the way mortgages are structured by national banks in the US. In the early years of a mortgage, the buyer is gaining the le…

So...Homebrew is MacPorts with simplified Portfiles and a smaller dependency graph?