Google's Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS which are the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS. Chromium OS aims to provide a fast, simple and more secure computing experience for 'web-centric' orientated users.
I've previously tried Chromium OS on earlier Intel Compute Sticks as Google provides both the source-code and documentation to build and install Chromium OS on your own device. However I thought I'd revisit the project and incorporate the latest patches and fixes together with the most recent kernel.
The build results in an image that can be written to a USB and then booted on any of Intel's Compute Sticks giving you a pseudo Chromiumbit:
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To try my latest Intel Compute Stick Chromium OS image you will first need to download it from here and after uncompressing it ('7z x linuxium-ics-chromiumos_image.bin.7z') write it to a USB ('dd if=linuxium-ics-chromiumos_image.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=4M' where 'X' is the appropriate drive letter).
Installation to your device's eMMC storage is also possible noting that it will overwrite the entire internal storage and a resize of the first partition is necessary to fully utilize all available storage space. See the following picture for all the necessary commands:
Acknowledgements: Google (Chromium), Pierre-Louis Bossart (HDMI audio), Daniel Bilik (C-state) and Bastien Nocera (WiFi).