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I wonder what of those cheep Chromebooks are suite to free them from Google spyware? How good or bad is a normal Debian running? Is the hardware supported by 100% free drivers? Can I boot my own Kernel? Is there any site comparing this?

Chromebook with Google spyware is a big step backward from eeepc.

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You can Ubuntu them pretty easily, either side-by-side or replacing ChromeOS. Bang, you have a netbook just like a few years ago.

Googled about it, but crouton only installs Ubuntu in a chroot of same kernel. Thats similar shit as Motorola with 2nd-boot.

The question is to free the Chromebook from Google spyware completely, including kernel, device drivers, and OpenGL acceleration.

Is any of those Chromebooks able to boot into backup cycle? Means boot with DCHP, TFTP and NFS root?

You can definitely wipe out the entire ChromeOS partition and replace it with some other Linux if that's what you want. Some people do that but it's definitely less common than dual booting or a chroot.

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