Better support for Chromebooks

Chromebooks do have very limited hardware in terms of storage and RAM. But it is still the cheapest solution to a truly open source notebook, as it allows to replace its coreboot based bootloader with your own coreboot and payload (f.e. Tiano Core or Seabios).

By installing a standard proposal of Tumbleweed or Leap with btrfs you will be left with about 2-3 GB of free storage on a 16 GB eMMC storage for installing packages and saving files. In addition to that many features like hibernation, suspend and function buttons (TTY switching) don't work out of the box.

There is a special Ubuntu based distribution for Chromebooks available called "Gallium OS" (https://galliumos.org/). They do have a lot of patches and some neat configuration for XFCE4 to make it perfectly work on Chromebooks by still looking very nice and offering a lot of storage. But you know what it lacks? Correct, some Geeko love ;)

In this project following steps could be done to improve the openSUSE support on Chromebooks:

• port Chromebook specific patches of "Gallium OS" to Factory and upstream them if necessary/possible
• custom setup proposal for Chromebooks in Tumbleweed or a custom Image for Chromebooks
  • including a modified XFCE configuration with openSUSE branding
  • minimum selection of packages necessary for a proper desktop session (f.e. replace LibreOffice with smaller solutions)
• openSUSE Leap 15 Image for Chromebooks
  • including a modified XFCE configuration with openSUSE branding
  • minimum selection of packages necessary for a proper desktop session (f.e. replace LibreOffice with smaller solutions)