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The PiBook

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.

You can certainly install a full 64-bit operating system like 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

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