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authorPaul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>2015-11-06 13:10:44 (EST)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-11-06 13:37:36 (EST)
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Replace Chromebook mentions with CrOS, that is more generic
Not all CrOS devices are Chromebooks (laptops) or run on ARM, not all RK3288 CrOS devices are Chromebooks, either. We want to support more CrOS devices, including some that are not Chromebooks, such as the ASUS Chromebit! Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
<h1 id="pagetop">ASUS Chromebook C201</h1>
<p>
- This is a chromebook, using the Rockchip RK3288 SoC. It uses
+ This is a Chromebook, using the Rockchip RK3288 SoC. It uses
an ARM CPU, and has free EC firmware (unlike some other laptops).
More RK3288-based laptops will be added to libreboot at a later date.
</p>
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
<div class="section">
<ul>
- <li><a href="#googlesintent">Google's intent with Chromebooks</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#googlesintent">Google's intent with CrOS devices</a></li>
<li><a href="#os">Considerations about ChromeOS and free operating systems</a></li>
<li><a href="#videoblobs">Caution: Video acceleration requires a non-free blob, software rendering can be used instead.</a></li>
<li><a href="#wifiblobs">Caution: WiFi requires a non-free blob, a USB dongle can be used instead.</a></li>
@@ -63,17 +63,17 @@
</div>
<div class="section">
- <h1 id="googlesintent">Google's intent with Chromebooks</h1>
+ <h1 id="googlesintent">Google's intent with CrOS devices</h1>
<p>
- Chromebooks were not designed with the intent of bringing more freedom to users.
- However, Chromebooks run with a lot of free software at the boot software and embedded controller levels,
+ CrOS (Chromium OS/Chrome OS) devices, such as Chromebooks, were not designed with the intent of bringing more freedom to users.
+ However, they run with a lot of free software at the boot software and embedded controller levels,
since free software gives Google enough flexibility to optimize various aspects such as boot time
- and most importantly, to implement the Chromebook security system, that involves various aspects of the software.
+ and most importantly, to implement the CrOS security system, that involves various aspects of the software.
Google does hire a lot of Coreboot developers, who are generally friendly to the free software movement
and try to be good members of the free software community, by contributing code back.
</p>
<p>
- Chromebooks are designed (from the factory) to actually coax the user into using
+ CrOS devices are designed (from the factory) to actually coax the user into using
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html">proprietary web services</a>
(SaaSS) that invade the user's privacy (ChromeOS is literally just the Google Chrome browser when you boot up, itself proprietary
and comes with proprietary add-ons like flash. It's only intended for SaaSS, not actual, real computing).
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
<h2>No FSF-endorsed distros available</h2>
<p>
The FSF has a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">list of distributions</a> that are 100% free software. None of these
- are confirmed to work on ARM chromebooks yet. Parabola looks hopeful:
+ are confirmed to work on ARM CrOS devices yet. Parabola looks hopeful:
<a href="https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-supports-armv7/">https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-supports-armv7/</a>
</p>
<p>
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
<h1 id="depthcharge">Depthcharge payload</h1>
<p>
These systems do not use the GRUB payload. Instead, they use a payload called depthcharge,
- which is common on Chromebooks. This is free software, maintained by Google.
+ which is common on CrOS devices. This is free software, maintained by Google.
</p>
</div>
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@
<p>
Write protection is useful, because it prevents the firmware from being re-flashed by any malicious software that
might become executed on your GNU/Linux system, as root. In other words, it can prevent a firmware-level <i>evil maid</i> attack. It's
- possible to write protect on all current libreboot systems, but chromebooks make it easy. The screw is such a stupidly
- simple idea, which all laptop designs should implement.
+ possible to write protect on all current libreboot systems, but CrOS devices make it easy. The screw is such a stupidly
+ simple idea, which all designs should implement.
</p>
</div>