Depthboot is a builder script that creates a bootable USB drive/SD-card that can be booted on any x86_64 Chromebook. It supports common Linux distributions(Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora) and a variety of the most popular desktop environments. Due to licensing restraints, Depthboot cannot be distributed as an iso. Instead, it has to be build locally.

Anyone have experiences with this?

  • CanofBeanz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty cool project, haven’t seen it before. as someone who has used two different UEFI flashed Chromebooks as main laptops it’s not something I would use. Really only useful if you want to retain ChromeOS compatibility and I guess only want Linux as secondary option.

  • db2@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It’s all 404 now, all the github pages are gone, the repo is gone.

  • kanzalibrary@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Never heard about Depthboot but sadly, there is no support for Debian Linux. If Depthboot compatible with that, I will go down testing it in no time.

  • Coeus@coeus.sbs
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    1 year ago

    I flashed Gallium OS on my Chromebook awhile back. I might try this instead.