Flounder: Oct 2026 Reusing Chromebooks for Debian

Date/Time
Date(s) - October 10, 2026
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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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.

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