But I see Gallium was built on Xubuntu, so presumably Xubuntu should also just work for you.
Otherwise, Peppermint and Puppy Linux are message for older low ram devices as well, and lastly, if you haven’t already, you might want to look into mrchromebox:
Alternatives like that are what I’d probably go to if I had no other choice and needed an updated system, sure.
But none of those have the chromebook-specific kernel tweaks that make Gallium work so well on Chromebooks. In any other distro, I’d probably have issues with the weird Chromebook-specific buttons not working, the weird chromebook-specific touchpad not working, perhaps some other hardware (like audio) not working, and I’d lose the optimizations that make it run quick and efficient on the quirky hardware.
I mean, Fyde was originally meant for Chromebooks, and has support for Intel devices back to 2010 I think.
It sounds like you’re talking about drivers?
Otherwise, if you do want essentially an updated Gallium, there’s this guide which is on running Xubuntu (again, what Gallium used as it’s base) on old Chromebook:
I could maybe find more specific details if I knew what specific Chromebook you had.
Mr.Chromebox also makes it so you can run other distros by installing the firmware needed for your Chromebook so you shouldn’t have issues with any buttons etc. Which should be a replacement for the custom kernel tweaks Gallium did manually. I don’t know how far back they go though, since you mentioned it’s a 2gb ram machine.
I think FydeOS is like Gallium: https://fydeos.io/
But I see Gallium was built on Xubuntu, so presumably Xubuntu should also just work for you.
Otherwise, Peppermint and Puppy Linux are message for older low ram devices as well, and lastly, if you haven’t already, you might want to look into mrchromebox:
https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/
Alternatives like that are what I’d probably go to if I had no other choice and needed an updated system, sure.
But none of those have the chromebook-specific kernel tweaks that make Gallium work so well on Chromebooks. In any other distro, I’d probably have issues with the weird Chromebook-specific buttons not working, the weird chromebook-specific touchpad not working, perhaps some other hardware (like audio) not working, and I’d lose the optimizations that make it run quick and efficient on the quirky hardware.
I mean, Fyde was originally meant for Chromebooks, and has support for Intel devices back to 2010 I think.
It sounds like you’re talking about drivers?
Otherwise, if you do want essentially an updated Gallium, there’s this guide which is on running Xubuntu (again, what Gallium used as it’s base) on old Chromebook:
https://www.quantulum.co.uk/blog/xubuntu-on-a-chromebook/
It shows how to tweak things as needed.
I could maybe find more specific details if I knew what specific Chromebook you had.
Mr.Chromebox also makes it so you can run other distros by installing the firmware needed for your Chromebook so you shouldn’t have issues with any buttons etc. Which should be a replacement for the custom kernel tweaks Gallium did manually. I don’t know how far back they go though, since you mentioned it’s a 2gb ram machine.