[Flounder] Flounder Meeting Oct 10th Chromebooks running Debian

[Russell Coker]

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-oct-2026-reusing-chromebooks/

Reusing Chromebooks as Debian Lomiri Tablets

Ex-school Chromebooks are cheaply available on the second-hand market and many 
of them have close-to-mainline Linux kernel support and spare parts available 
making them affordable and effective computing platforms with the right 
software.  Yifei Zhan will describe the process of extending the existing 
Debian On Mobile framework to build Debian images for Chromebooks based on the 
Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 SoC and converting them into convergent devices with 
Lomiri. The resulting device can then be deployed in educational environments 
with Debian Edu. This approach can be applied to many other Chromebook 
devices.

After the Chromebooks lecture there will be general discussion of FOSS stuff 
probably including a lot of discussion on buying cheap second hand hardware 
and comparing Chromebooks with laptops. As usual lightning talks are welcome!

Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register just click on 
the link on the day.

Before the meeting you might want to read the Lomiri Wikipedia page and the 
lomiri.com web site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomiri
https://lomiri.com/

Meeting officially opens at 1PM Melbourne time (02:00UTC), 10th of Oct.

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