The project Chromium OS for SBC’s is returning. The project will of course offer new builds for the raspberry pi 2,3,3

The first new release will be named after one of the co-founders of chromium os for sbc, Hans-Gerhard Weinreich. Hans-Gerhard recently passed away this year. Han’s was one of the first people that helped me initially, we met on here he helped me for a year and half and then he went on to the recently acquired FlintOS to help design and code there Raspberry Pi project.

P.S congrats to the Flint OS team on their recent success.

Hans-Gerhard was a great man, he became a close friend. I want to honor him in the first release aimed at the raspberry pi 3 .

So you might have a few questions.

When can I use it?

Hopefully soon, I’m one man, with my own forty hour work week and a family. I’m also limited to the dollar amount I can invest into this project. So the reboot to we’re the project was at peak is going to be slower then I want. I would like to say before Christmas of this year.

I just purchased a new raspberry pi 3 to start testing and development on. I need to configure my physical server at home, which currently is very very under powered. I will not be compile quickly, so that will bottleneck me for a while, cloud platforms are not affordable at the moment for the actual horsepower needed.

Will it be a flavored Chromium OS like other releases with for the raspberry pi currently?

Nope, I like Pure Chromium OS. Google is a amazing company that builds a beautiful operating system, Chromium OS is basically Chrome OS, trying to theme it, means I’m trying to claim the code is mine. The code that builds a open source operating system is your code and it’s my code. Just because I’m creating and modify the source code for a board that’s not currently supporting doesn’t mean it’s my operating system. Yes the modification and bug killing for the raspberry pi is challenging, but at the end of the day you just want the awesome operating system that google built on your board. Not mine, So there will be no logos at are not in the original up to date source code and no alterations that are not performance based.

So to summarize what I just said you can expect the Chromium OS for SBC to bring you a new release Weinreich 1.0 for the raspberry pi 2/3/3 Before the end of the year, hopefully on Christmas if not before.

Cheers,