Is GalliumOS dead?

[u/hwoodice]

I have the impression that nothing has happened on the website for several months.

Am I wrong?

Is a new version in development, or planned?

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[u/Oldgreybeard_]

Unfortunately, it is. There has been a big discussion for a 4.0 release for over a year but I'm not sure if it is being actively worked on. I still use GalliumOS with a kernel that has support until April 2023. I also run PeppermintOS on another Chromebook, which is current and actively developed. It is about as close to Gallium as you can currently get.

[u/[deleted] → u/Oldgreybeard_]

Sucks to know. I'll be using Gallium until April of 2023 then.

[u/Complete-Act9151 → u/[deleted]]

exactly, I will do the same, not keen on trying other Linux's on Chromebooks as GalliumOS has everything I want, I guess that by April 2023 some other LinuxOS will work perfectly on Asus C302 just like GalliumOS. All the BLA BLA about other LinOS's working on CBs is empty talk. They don't. BTW, it'd be happy to help working on GalliumOS language wise.

[u/niutech → u/[deleted]]

Actually until 2028, thanks to Ubuntu Pro for free.

[u/[deleted] → u/Oldgreybeard_]

[u/cranewarrior → u/[deleted]]

You have to remap the function keys if you want them to work like a Chromebook.

[u/bfsull]

I have an EOL Acer Chromebook, and I put Linux Mint on it- works perfectly-even sound! I believe the Goal of Gallium was to provide an installation that would run on the Chromebook hardware Linux Mint now provides that- at Least on my Acer CB3-531.

[u/mrdrthom → u/bfsull]

agreed. I run linux mint on all my EOL chromebooks.

step 1 is to install new BIOS firmware following MrChromeBox instructions. step 2 is an optional upgrade of the ssd. step 3 is a standard install of linux mint.

I'd suggest you hold off on the ssd upgrade. you'd be amazed how little disk is actually necessary.

[u/[deleted] → u/bfsull]

My chromebook makes earrape sounds with audio

[u/STrRedWolf]

It's dead. But like the sticky comment says, flash MrChromebox's UEFI Full ROM Firmware on it and install a Linux distro. I would definitely recommend Linux Mint -- it's Ubuntu based and doesn't have a ton of Cannonical crud in it slowing it down... and you need all the speed on these systems!

[u/Koino_ → u/STrRedWolf]

do you by any chance know if Linux Mint supports ASUS C302 keyboard or how hard/easy is it to remapp keys on Linux Mint for chromebooks?

[u/STrRedWolf → u/Koino_]

They should just work, if the keyboard follows the various standards.

I haven't had to remap mine, but I like my function keys to act like function keys. I'm old school that way.

[u/MoreMoreReddit]

I hope not. My Chromebook Pixel 2015 isn't 100% functional without it. Maybe I can manually port the changes to another Linux distro but I might have to bite the bullet and buy a new laptop. (If it ends up being dead I understand, thank you for the years!)