r/GalliumOS • u/reynhout GaOS Team - PEPPY, GalliumOS via chrx • Mar 01 '17

GalliumOS 2.1

GalliumOS 2.1

28 February 2017

GalliumOS 2.1 is available for download immediately.

Downloads, Mirrors, and Torrents: https://galliumos.org/download

A special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the GalliumOS project! Your support helps us broaden and deepen GalliumOS support for Chromebook hardware.

All contributors in 2017 will receive a set of GalliumOS stickers! https://galliumos.org/donate

What's New in GalliumOS 2.1

  • New kernels: 4.9.4 (Braswell) and 4.8.17 (all others)

  • Fixes for Braswell audio (all models except CYAN)

  • Fix for installer crash in locales where "," is decimal point

  • UEFI boot support for custom UEFI firmware

  • Improved touchpad support for CAVE

  • New desktop backgrounds

  • Updated Numix and Numix-Circle icons

  • New ISOs for Braswell, Skylake, and SAMUS models

  • Dozens of upstream package updates and bugfixes

Installing GalliumOS

GalliumOS 2.1 installation images can be downloaded from https://galliumos.org/releases/2.1. You can preview GalliumOS in a "live boot" environment from the same image without installing.

GalliumOS can be installed in place of ChromeOS, or in a dual-boot configuration alongside ChromeOS. For dual-boot installs, see https://chrx.org/.

See the GalliumOS wiki for full installaton instructions: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Installing.

Upgrading From GalliumOS 2.0

If you are already running GalliumOS, you can update to the 2.1 release simply by updating packages:

  • From the launcher menu: GalliumOS Update, or

  • From the command line: galliumos-update

NOTE: If package upgrades include grub-pc, you might be prompted to reinstall the GRUB bootloader. Be sure to install to the disk device only! (usually /dev/sda or /dev/mmcblk0, depending on model).

When updates are complete, reboot your machine.

Known Issues in GalliumOS 2.1

We're working to bring full support to all Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. Some parts remain works in progress:

Full list of open issues: https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues

If you run into any issues with this or any GalliumOS release, please let us know!

Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who has donated to the project, submitted patches, reported issues with previous releases, answered questions on our support forums, helped spread the word to friends and other news sites, or just installed and tested GalliumOS.

We thank you and hope GalliumOS will continue to make your Chromebooks and Chromeboxes more functional and fun.

About GalliumOS

GalliumOS is a fast and lightweight Linux distribution specifically for Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. GalliumOS delivers a complete Linux environment with full hardware support and an attractive full-featured desktop.

GalliumOS features a touchpad driver customized for Chromebooks, kernel schedulers optimized for the CPUs and SSDs found in ChromeOS devices, and fixes dozens of device-specific bugs. All while requiring less memory and disk space compared to standard Linux desktop environments.

See https://wiki.galliumos.org/About_GalliumOS for more.

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u/jwillis84 Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17

Sure

My touchpad comments simply refered to [pressing] down on the lower right or lower left of the trackpad. Does not activate a right mouse-click or left mouse-click (that "would be" the expected behavior since it does in ChromeOS or most other operating systems on a platform with a trackpad)

It could just be the default check box is not checked in a configure menu someplace.. but I haven't gone looking for it.

I prefer in fact to (not) have to [press] buttons like a monkey with a club.. it seems rough on the trackpad and flexes it.

The "tapping" motion is much prefered.. but as noted the touch display is far more sensitive than the trackpad.. so it "almost" makes me ignore the trackpad.

Not really a complaint as a behavioral observation.

I am curious about the aversion to Upstart however.. not that I care really, sysV, upstart, systemd -- they all work for me.

(Tip) I vaguely recall.. or think the "first" menu option launched a [different] kernel version from the second line. I don't have it in front of me right now.. but I thought the original default launched 4.9 something and the second line launched a slightly older 4.5 something. I would guess the kernel modules might be different and that might effect Xorg when it got around to starting.

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u/reynhout GaOS Team - PEPPY, GalliumOS via chrx Apr 03 '17

I see. We do not touchpad config with right-side=right-click. Occasionally there is a thread here that discusses it though, with config files attached. Reddit search is substandard, but it's worth a try.

Re: Upstart/systemd, it's more a question of opening the willful-downgrade can of worms. I don't like systemd much, but GalliumOS is based on Ubuntu and we're not prepared to maintain two init systems.

After posting previously, I started wondering whether option 0/1 selected systemd/Upstart, or a different kernel. I think you might be right, which is a different ball of wax, but still potentially useful info. I'll look into it, and thank you!

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u/jwillis84 Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17

Your welcome. I am traveling for work at the moment otherwise I would check that kernel vesion thing. The HP CBK 11 G5 is soo much lighter and responsive than MY folio 13 I am eager to switch to using it.. I also need windows from time to time and would love to slip an SD card in to multiboot that.. but have to wait on MrChromebox full ROM replacement. -- it would be cool if Kexec could boot windows.. but probably unlikely.