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Chromium OS for Intel Compute Sticks


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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Performance is dependent on your USB and with a Sandisk Ultra Fit USB3.0 for example it is pretty good:

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and runs YouTube at 1080p even on the basic model STCK1A8LFC:

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Furthermore Crouton can be installed to provide a full Ubuntu OS:

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Interestingly whilst wifi works on each device audio is only available on the Core m devices even though the Intel HDMI driver is loaded:

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So it is back to using a USB audio adapter if sound is a mandatory requirement. If anyone can work out how to configure Chromium to use the Intel HDMI driver please comment below.

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).


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