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    Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Chromebook

    Mar 30, 2021 5 minutes
    –IAN EVENDEN

    THE BEAUTY of single-board computers is that they can be switched between operating systems easily—it’s just a case of swapping a microSD card over and switching it back on. The operating systems are easy to install too, flashed to a card from your PC with a user-friendly piece of software.

    Recently, we showed you how you can use a full 64-bit operating system—Ubuntu—on a Raspberry Pi, and get real work done on a diminutive PC. This time, we’re going to do the same thing, but to the opposite extreme. Chromium OS—an open-source version of the Chromebook OS—is as minimal as things come without being a command line, as it’s just the Chrome browser. But that doesn’t mean it’s particularly limited. There’s a full office suite in there, cloud storage, image editors, e-book readers, and all sorts of other apps that

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