Hacker ports Chromium OS to Raspberry Pi

Chromium OS is ported to the Raspberry Pi and the official team of the open source OS has accepted the port. For now, Chromium can only start on the $25 computer and there is no GUI yet.

A hacker with the alias Hexxeh ports Chromium OS to the Raspberry Pi. The Chromium OS development team approved the commit for the port this week. In his latest public update in April, Hexxeh said development was going well, which he demonstrated with a photo showing the operating system booting. At that time, however, there was not even a graphical interface. It is unknown what the status is now.

Nor is it clear how the software will run on the small, cheap computer. Google and Samsung recently equipped new Chromebooks and a Chromebox with a faster Celeron processor and 4GB, because the Atom and 2GB of the previous version would not suffice. Incidentally, there are also experiments with the Samsung Exynos 5-soc with ARM cores in combination with Chromium OS. However, the Raspberry Pi has an ARM11 architecture based CPU, which runs at 700MHz. Furthermore, only 256MB of memory is available.