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Doctor_Fegg on April 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

New (Bay Trail/Braswell) Chromebooks don't have legacy boot support: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Firmware

Xorg doesn't initialise the display hardware to a usable state when the machine is running current Chrome OS, requiring firmware rollback: https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/320

GalliumOS has numerous optimisations for Chromebook hardware: https://wiki.galliumos.org/About_GalliumOS#Why_GalliumOS_as_...

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