How to Run Linux on Chromebooks with Crouton

In this video tutorial YouTuber Johnny Phung shows how you can run other Linuxes than Chrome OS on Chromebooks. For his demo he uses an Acer C7 Chromebook and a software called crouton, which stands for Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment and currently supports Ubuntu and Debian.

A few things to think about before you try this at home:

Your Chrome OS device must be in developer mode, which in its default configuration is completely insecure.
Crouton supports encrypting chroots, but the encryption is only as strong as the quality of your passphrase.

Johnny's video shows the basic steps to get Ubuntu 13.04 with the Cinnamon desktop environment running on a Chromebook, but you have several other choices including kde, unity or the more resource-friendly lxde and xfce environments.

Be sure to check out the crouton README for further information.

Operating Systems: Debian, Ubuntu, Chrome OS

February 26, 2014 • Video Tutorial Crouton

To be informed of new posts, subscribe to the RSS feed or follow Linux Netbook on Facebook.

Affiliate Disclosure: External links on this website may contain affiliate IDs, which means that I earn a commission if visitors make a purchase via such a link. For details, see the disclosure page.