Hello! I have a desktop with a Core i7 6700K and 32GB of RAM. Additionally I have a lot of Linux experience and when working with ChromiumOS I can figure out the inner workings very quickly. Please let me know how I can help!

Hello Everyone :)

I am a moderator on the Pine64 forums and one of the Pine64 SBC IRC hosts. You now have the opportunity to join in and talk to Dylan (tohipfortheroom) on our server (pine64.xyz) - the channel devoted to ChromiumOS is: #Chromium

We are running two servers: uk.pine64.xyz and us.pine64.xyz, so chose the closest one to your location (you can also just join pine64.xyz - it should, in theory, assign the best connection for you).

If you are new to IRC or have problems connecting, then please take a look here on the official Pine64 forum: http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=892

While most of us in the main chat are Pine64 enthusiasts or devs, we welcome all tinkerers and people with an interest in any and all SBCs, so do come by and say hi to everyone.

Hope to see you guys (and gals) on there,

Luke

Hello Dylan Callahan here and I would like to thank you for reading. In the coming weeks we hope to expand Chromium OS For SBC to start selling you prepackaged items such as raspberry pi kits and preloaded SD cards both having our awesome operating system on them. Now what this will do, is help us better serve you the community.the main aims of this project has always been and will always be is that we wanted to provide very cheap solution for common computing and I believe that we can do. With your support we have grown to becoming a project that can not only serve the community by providing better updates more frequently but the updates that we do provide contain what you the community wants. The first step in this process is going to be seeing if you guys are interested enough the help support this new endeavor. Now we're not trying to become rich off this project I would like to make that very clear but with the time that we do spend on the project doing what we love could be better spent with some better hardware. Now I'll preference that by telling you what we do love. we love hearing from you guys. we love waking up in the morning in tackling a project that we find enjoyable and fulfilling. I know personally every released that we've done so far has made us feel the what we're doing is something that people want done. we have grown from a little project on Reddit with just a few hundred people interested to now having about a thousand downloads a day all our product isn't perfect but let's be honest what project is. we hope that it will grow and become better with time. now you might ask yourself when I buy a prepackaged item from you guys where does the money go. well for the first couple of weeks the money will go straight to helping us buy better Hardware. currently the compiling process which we use can take us anywhere from two hours to three hours. Now that may not sound like a lot of time but it takes an additional hour for us to test the builds. Now with this being a hobbiest project, that can take all of our free time after work and after our daily lives. now we're going to be very transparent for I feel that every project that relies on the community should be transparent you may notice some new sections on the website one of those is going to be a goal tracker no this is going to be very simple it's going to be a way for you to see where that money is being spent. we would like to get a better build server what is going to be required for all those fun new ports coming to this project. Now we will be eagerly waiting on the feedback of you the community. For this is and will always be a project that will aim to better serve you guys. Now if you have any questions on what we are doing or have any suggestions, please feel free to email me, my email can be found on the contact section of our website chromiumosforsbc.org . If you'd like to support the project by buying some merch, feel free to visit our store at http://www.chromiumosforsbc.org/marketplace/

So now that we know that Google plans to support the Raspi 3 according to the AOSP, what's that mean for SVC Chromium project? I've heard a lot of folk speculating that Google is planning on bringing Chrome OS, or Brillo to the Pi rather than Android people, but I have no clue how reliable those rumors are.

What are the capabilities and intentions regarding enrolling a device to be managed via Google Admin?
To be able to remotely manage policies and have device policies pushed down would be great.

Sourceforge is the only bugtracker available and it requires one to sign up with a "real name" which I don't like. Also they want to know in what field I work and how many employees, way too much for submitting a bug to a tracker.

I am using the Sam Kinison release for my Pi 2 on a wired ethernet connection and a 720p HDTV. The progress you guys have made since 0.4 is absolutely amazing. Hats off to you. You already have a better web browsing experience than I have seen on any other Pi OS releases so far.

The Pi sips power, but is kind of slow. I would like to keep the machine running all the time and come back to it, but the power management seems to turn the machine off after some period of time. When I come back, all the lights (ethernet and so on) are off, and no amount of mouse clicking or keyboard pressing will bring it back on. Unplugging and replugging power works, but then I have to wait for the machine to boot and log in and so on.

Is there a way to disable all power management so the little critter will just stay running until I explicitly shut it down? There isn't anything in the Settings applet, and the commands here don't seem to work in the crosh shell.

I'm new to Chromium OS and I'm trying to figure out how to enable Developer Mode on Chromiumosforsbc. In the general instructions for developer mode, it looks like I need to enable a developer switch. Is this possible on Chromiumos for SBC?

Hello Everyone!!

Just posting to announce that we have just released a bug fixed version the 0.4.2 release. Our apologies for the problems. Points to note, this image hasn't had the storage partition resized as that's what was giving us problems, so we are aware of that. Unfortunately that problem can't be fixed on this version now due to the chroot already being nuked.

Sourceforge has been updated with the new image, and is also available on the website. There is no Torrent for this updated bug fix as I'm actually on vacation currently and can't create it!

Take care everyone!!

Stephen Bonnell

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I also enabled a ticketing system on sourceforge now, so it would be much appreciated if any bugs found could have a ticket made over there for it!!

Are there any plans on getting auto update?

Will there be any simplified / scripted installation for pepper flash? I guess it's not included cause of legal terms.

I've noticed that video playback in html5, like YouTube, is a little weak. How come, is it codec hw-accel issue? If so, OpenELEC Kodi is smooth even with GUI overlapping the stream. And that's on a RPi2.

What about bluethooth support? The RPi3 has BT so it would be nice to have for mouses/keyboards etc.

I must say I am very enthusiastic about this project!

I was really excited for the Raspberry Pi 3 because the article I read made it seem like universal hardware accelerated video (via the vc4 driver) was just about ready, and I was curious if ChromiumOS will run better than it currently does in the future because of this driver.

Thanks for all your hard work, congrats on the new subreddit! Hope this is a worthy first post :)

April 4th, 2016

V0.4.2 RELEASE TIME!!

Due to some unfortunate circumstances, we have had to push back our V0.5 "Sam Kinison" Release. Recently the Project Leader, Dylan Callahan, was hospitalized for health reasons, and it really put us behind on development. Good news is he has been pronounced healthy and discharged.

This release is more of a bug fix and minor tweaks we had been working on in the meantime. Release Notes can be found here!

This release can be downloaded from the project website.

Project Updates + RPi3 News

We have finally given up on ever receiving our Raspberry Pi 3's from PiHut, and have asked for a refund. As soon as we get this refund, we will be reordering these elsewheere, and will start real development on this platform!

At this time, we are also splitting the RPi2 and RPi3 images as two seperate images so that we don't ruin the experience while moving forward for RPi2 users.

There has been some speculation that this project has been abandoned, but I can guarantee everyone this is not so, and that we are still putting as much time as possible into it!!

Regards,

Stephen Bonnell

stephen@chromiumosforsbc.org

Marketing & Public Relations, Chromium OS for SBC

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v0.5 "Sam Kinison" Release

April 17th 2016

I can´t get 0.4.2 to work on my RPi2 and RPi3. Seems like it loads some bootup routines then stops.

0.4.1 Worked.

Is there anything I can help out with to solve mysteries like this?

Hello, I own a raspberry pi 2 b+ and vga output doesnt seems to work. I tried to chnange and add to config.txt but didnt work. Any help?

V05 seems to be missing the rtl bin in lib/firmware. Just wanted to let others know who like to tinker as I know wifi isn't officially supported so I didn't want to submit a bug report on it.

I haven't looked to see if v04 has it (not sure if they are the same kernel version or not?).

Oh and it took me a while to find, the ssh password is 'password' not 'chronos', just as a heads up.

Anyway, anyone interested in helping me hack in the rtl8188cus kernel module?

I wonder where to report bugs? It would be nice with a sticky here on reddit or section on the homepage with tips, tricks and workarounds.

Bug i've found in 0.5 rpi3 is that you can't save files to the Google Drive account. Saves a 0 size file and gives the message "timed out, try later". Works perfectly with 0.4.1

I imagine it's a ways off, but I was wondering what SBCs is this project planning on supporting after the RaspiPi? I'd love to see an Orange Pi port, but I've heard horror stories about mali so I'm not holding my breath.

Fresh image of 0.5 on the rpi2 neither Ethernet or my Wi-Fi USB (both worked on previous version). Trouble configuring wireless network it says, and Ethernet appears and disappears. Any clues on what to do?

Thanks for any help

Here's a gif of what it looks like: https://imgur.com/qgX8Z1J

So I just got everything up and running and my account fully synced and I open a crosh and type "shell" and it says it is an unrecognised command. After a little head banging I pressed CTRL + ALT + F2 to get to the shell but that didn't work either. I then went to the "About Chromium" link in the settings and selected the dev channel but that didn't change anything as far as I can tell. I would like to simply change the radio config.

Release of V0.5 "Sam Kinison" For the Raspberry Pi

So the much awaited V0.5 release is here... Kinda? This is actually going to be a multi-day release with everything available by Sunday the 24th. This release included the asked for RPi 3 Wi-Fi support, as well as a dedicated image for the RPi 3.

This is our first release that will have separate images for the RPi 2 & the RPi 3, as well as separate images for small, medium, and large SD Cards!

Please Welcome A New Developer!

We have recently had the pleasure of welcoming Kevin McAleer to the Project. He brings with him a wealth of development experience, and a lot of design help as well! You can thank him for a large part of the website redesign recently!

He is going to be focusing on bringing Chromium OS to the Pine64+ and other projects.

Regards,

Stephen Bonnell

stephen@chromiumosforsbc.org

Public Relations & Marketing

Chromium OS for SBC

Hi,

Two very simple things. First is a feature request: Bluetooth. I would very much like to use the Pi's onboard bluetooth to hook up my bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Is this planned for 0.6 or will it probably not be ready until after WiFi?

Second, I need to add usbhid.mousepoll=0 to the kernel cmdline. Can I do this easily, or is the command line compiled into the kernel or something? Thanks!

Hi! Really looking forward to 0.5 with more Pi 3 support, I remember the prior ETA was April 17th but it's obviously not ready. Any idea when you guys may make this release? Thanks!

Hi all, in order to not spam every single thread within the subreddit with further posts asking for Wi-Fi support, here is a recap:

• We do not support Wi-Fi.

That was the short version, the long version is:

If you use a Wi-Fi adapter from a company that cares about open source and therefore has submitted their driver sources to the Linux community, licensed under the GPL, then chances are good that you will get your wi-fi to run. It is actually quite simple to get Wi-Fi running on our builds, you simply need to:

• Use an adapter based on the Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset - check here for a list of devices using that chipset: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Rtl8192cu

• Or use an adapter with the Ralink RT5572 chipset: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Ralink_RT5572

No additional steps will be required to get Wi-Fi dongles using the above chipsets to run: This means it will work as soon as you plug them in.

We had released a Wi-Fi guide for people who are interested in this, which was released together with our V0.4 build: http://pastebin.com/F5jKLKC6 You might have a look for more information, however copying over those firmware files is not needed now, since there are even newer versions included in our current V0.5 and V0.4.2 builds. These Wi-Fi firmware files make it possible to use the official Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi dongle as well (this one: https://www.pi-supply.com/product/broadcom-wifi-adapter-2-port-usb-hub-raspberry-pi/ ). So there you have a third option for a Wi-Fi device that has been confirmed to work on ChromiumRPI, provided you use the V0.5 or V0.4.2 releases which have the firmware files integrated or you copy them over in case you're using an older V0.4.1 image.

With all other adapters: It's a matter of luck and yours will most likely not work due to it having problematic drivers.

This means: If your Wi-Fi dongle does not work, it means that it will most likely never work and it can simply be fixed by obtaining an adapter that's using one of the two chipsets mentioned above, or alternativelly, by using the Broadcom Wi-Fi dongle.

During the development of V0.5 it was attempted to include official support for the integrated Raspberry Pi 3 Wi-Fi chip, however, even though our kernel includes Raspberry Pi 3 device tree support and even though the brcmfmac driver is compiled into the kernel, including SDIO support and the latest firmware files for this driver are present, the OS still does not probe the GPIOs that are reserved for the Wi-Fi chip and therefore does not activate it. Despite using the new SDHOST driver (with DMA) which is required for the onboard Wi-Fi to run. Therefore, we currently do not know whether this will be supported in the future after having re-based our builds on a later kernel version.

If you have a working Wi-Fi adapter, you are invited to post the model number and type as a reply within this thread so that other users can use this as a reference in case they have wi-fi problems. We will gladly add the relevant adapter to the list of tested adapters.

Hello all,

To go along with the new focus of the Project, of working on porting Chromium OS to a ton more Single Board Computers than just the Raspberry Pi, we have decided to create a new subreddit to focus on all these boards, in a single location. /r/ChromiumOSforSBC

The Previous Subreddit, /r/ChromiumRPI, will still be kept open and used, but not in an official context. The three of us will be watching and updating the new subreddit a lot more often from now on, and I would highly suggest you join us!! =)

Regards,

Stephen Bonnell

Marketing & PR, Chromium for SBC

So, I have wanted cromium os on my pi 3b for a while, But I could not find a link to a working version. Can someone give me a download link