A separate Chromium OS update has been made for Raspberry Pi 3 owners and those who wanted to run the operating system on its latest version. They need to know the following things before they can go ahead and download the Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 3 0.5 binary image.
Here's what's coming to Chromium OS for the Raspberry Pi 3
Chromium OS includes several improvements and features. One of them is the Linux 4.2.8-ckt8 kernel with a reduced size, as well as BFS tweaks for improved latency, smaller debug output. In addition, it also brings multiple improvements to the audio driver, as well as better storage performance. This is due to the new BFQ hierarchical scheduler and tweaks to the ondemand governor.
However, performance is not the only thing to be evaluated here, as a smooth user experience is also essential in order to ensure that this update should be recommended to other Raspberry Pi 3 owners. Coming to this experience, it has been significantly improved, and offers fixes for Kiosk mode. Furthermore, it brings fixes to the VC4 GPU driver and various video features, especially for those running Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 3 on non-1080p displays.
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was released on February 29, 2016 and is a built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip. Not only that, but the logic board also carries a 64-bit core , which will ultimately offer significant performance gains compared to its logic board predecessors. While there are a ton of improvements made, there are also a few limitations that you should be aware of.
First of all, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B’s built-in Wi-Fi is not yet supported, and Netflix videos cannot be streamed yet. Another downside is that HTML5 playback only works on websites that also offer Flash as an alternative to HTML5 video. If you are completely comfortable with these limitations, then you can proceed to download the binary image right now.
