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<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>
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<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>