Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderGalliumOS is a wonderful project. It has turned my $150 chromebook into a fully-fledged dev machine that works perfectly including all the fiddly things like sleep/wake, screen brightness, volume keys and secondary displays. And I get around 9 hours battery. The 11GB hard drive space I had left after installation was plenty big enough for all the tools and libraries I need, and I added a 64GB SD card for archiving and media. Since the chromebook (a CB3-131) is so…
The “news” section shows the last release was in 2019. Not that it matters really. I never used gallium, because other distros just worked. Flash the bios with mr chromebox firmware and install whatever. I’ve been using Ubuntu 14 now 18 on an old acer for 9 years now, no issues other than its very very low powered by today’s standards. Edit to add the one thing I did have to was install gallium keybindings which support the funky chrome…
Development on GalliumOS has been discontinued, and for most users, GalliumOS is not the best option for running Linux due to lack of hardware support or a kernel that's out of date and lacking important security fixes. :(
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 280
- Total comments
- 144
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-26 | GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for ChromebooksFirst breakout · Best thread | milankragujevic | 141 | 74 |
| 2022-04-14 | Gallium OS: a fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devicesLatest 20+ point return | mikece | 136 | 68 |
| 2024-12-25 | GalliumOS – A fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices | janandonly | 3 | 2 |