Compiling your own Coreboot firmware for the Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook

Okay, so, why would you want to do this? Well, in a nutshell, so your Chromebook pretty much behaves like a normal laptop i.e. no secure boot, will boot from any USB key, no more signing kernels and dd’ing them to obscure partitions, etc, etc. Before you start: It’s important to note this comes without …

Using schroot instead of LXC containers

So, I have been using LXC to host my server services for a period of time, with a view to keeping things portable should I need to change provider. It’s very good in that it’s integrated into the Linux kernel and in Ubuntu at least it’s not too difficult to setup, however there are a …