I understand your disappointment, my end goal was always to make what I develop great experience for the classroom settings, Chromium OS and the inexpensive raspberry pi just made sense. It handles the very resource heavy Chromium OS quite well for the horsepower it has, but this new project plans to be a performance driven educational build of Chromium OS. I felt very limited as a developer with the hardware of the raspberry pi, this new project will allow me to create and advance without much hardware limitations.
The true goal of this new project is to fix the limitations of Chromium OS and optimize it to its full potential. Hopefully this Chromium OS for SBC project can be resurrected. I just need more involvement from the community to make building for the single board platform more feasible. I am only one man, and fixing the bugs of the always evolving Chromium OS turned out to be a huge headache I spent many sleepless nights trying to fix.
I know the community is disappointed in lack of fruitful development that has been happening since April. I tried, but hopefully posting the source code like we have since the beginning of the chromium OS for SBC project, has inspired people, I heard a lot on the Chromium OS dev mailing list about people working on the pi, I have tried to contact these involved parties, but to no avail.
I would truly love if someone, was able to bring the world a better Chromium OS for the raspberry pi then I have. I just hope they build on my work and are able to release it free to all.
This is not the ending of a chapter for those that have liked what I have done.
This is just a plot twist, in theory there are more "regular" PC's with either a 32 bit or 64 bit processor. I wish and hope to create a new experience for this target audience. By making this Chromium OS fork more available and easier to adapt I feel like it will have more of a impact on the world.
Once again I would love to thank all the support I have had, we took a simple idea and made it possible, I am grateful and blessed for all of the people that donated and published the work that I, and my colleagues were doing. Like I said earlier I do not feel like the idea that I put my heart into is dead, I think I personally needed to focus on something new, yet the same in a sense. For my own sanity and personal peace of mind. This was a selfish decision to end the Chromium OS for SBC project for the time being but I hope I have explained my reasoning, the community was so supportive, but I found it was hard for others to create and contribute.
Hopefully I can create an amazing product that you can experience for FREE, I've made many connections in the tech industry with the brief existence of the chromium OS for SBC project. I've already connected with many universities and colleges in the United States for students that are excited to contribute. Hopefully we can create something amazing.
To all that have read this I am hoping that you are experiencing a great life, and that technology has help improved your life, I hope I have not let you down and I hope that you can support my new endeavors.
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