Funtoo has access to pacman without requiring unmasking of software so can do the same build stuff with manjaroiso easily. I believe the end result will be a more stable system for a server. I switched both the build server and my other server over to Funtoo in hopes that I can eventually learn how to use distcc, which distributes the compilation over multiple boxes.
ChromeOS will not operate the type of VPN that I want to use and with the breakages in crouton I do not know if it is worth maintaining long term. So I guess I am announcing that I am no longer going to maintain it, at all. If someone wants to fork it and merge the fixes that have been put in upstream it will probably fix it. So many things do not operate properly and it all seems like a daunting task where it started out as a fun task to see ‘if’ I could do it.
I have been seriously considering doing a coreboot on my Chromebook and just punting ChromeOS with the possibility of dual booting Chromium OS in the future if possible. This makes sense of why I am dropping maintenance for manjaro crouton, I will not be able to test it anymore as I did in the past. With newer chromebooks moving over to seabios the crouton project no longer makes as much sense to me as it once did.
I went to a computer hardware store, asked if they had a spare jumper I could have. I have all the equipment required to coreboot+seabios the chromebook and install some Linux distributions. I have done the research on how to perform the task both on the developers website and a few useful videos by johnny phung on youtube which I will link below.
It is recommended to fully read and comprehend all information available before attempting this task on your Chromebook. There is not a lot of information available and johnny phung is nearly the only person I could find with much information on this, his videos and posts lead me to the developers website.
Although the first link I will provide is to his Windows video it is relevent to the Linux side of things because he does not redundantly explain how to flash the bios with coreboot and seabios and he expands on a few commands that verify that everything is set correctly for the bios flash.
Coreboot windows video – Watch until 12:50. He uses alumium foil, I would only use a jumper for this. Got an old computer or hard drive sitting around? Grab a jumper off that!
Coreboot Linux video – There is the link for installing ubuntu but really any distribution would work, I am probably going to have 2-3 different installed distributions going or maybe 1 binary based and 1 source based. I have not decided yet what the plan is but I have a pretty good idea how to get a well compiled source based distribution to run on binaries as well and that would be quite ideal for a little Chromebook without much power to compile for itself.