Chromebook and "cloudready"?

[Blue Hills]

As in here:

https://www.neverware.com/cloudready-introduction

One of my chromebooks will stop getting security updates later this year.

Have read some stuff that suggests that you can install something called Cloudready (see above) after a bit of internal tinkering and carry on pretty much as before with continuing security protection.

Anyone done it?

 

[Dan77]

Oh, that's interesting. I've had the same issue. I find it rather annoying that they stop providing updates for such a basic system. I may well have had my Chromebook for 5 years but it's a decent spec one and it's not like the components are failing given how simple they are.

Will have to have a look.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Do I gather (correctly?) that your OS will be held in the cloud?

 

[midlife]

Google have bought the company and are in the middle of merging it into their OS. Like the Borg lol

 

[BoldonLad]

As in here:

https://www.neverware.com/cloudready-introduction

One of my chromebooks will stop getting security updates later this year.

Have read some stuff that suggests that you can install something called Cloudready (see above) after a bit of internal tinkering and carry on pretty much as before with continuing security protection.

Anyone done it?

Haven't done it, but, wasn't a product called CloudReady, marketed as a means of installing ChromeOS on (any old) PC?

 

[kynikos]

Pretty sure I used it a couple of years ago to convert an ancient laptop into, effectively, a Chromebook. Seemed to be OK but I didn't persevere with it as I really wanted to run some Android Apps on it and this didn't prove possible.

 

[Blue Hills]

Google have bought the company and are in the middle of merging it into their OS. Like the Borg lol

are you saying that it will no longer be a way of extending the secure life of a chromebook?

 

[Blue Hills]

By the by, on doing this, if google still allows it after the reported purchase by google above, I found this:

"One important thing to consider is that you’ll need at least 8 GB of free space on your Chromebook to unpack the CloudReady OS before writing it to a USB drive. If your older Chromebook only has 16 GB of storage, you’ll need to borrow another machine with more space to make the USB installation drive."

One spooky thing - on turning on my chromebook this morning a message popped up telling me that the updates for it will stop in september - spooky spooky. Never seen that before.

 

[Blue Hills]

Do I gather (correctly?) that your OS will be held in the cloud?

the operating system will be on the machine - hence the installation.