18 Chromebooks from Acer, Asus, Lenovo, & Dell receive Linux app support

Eighteen Chromebooks based on Intel Apollo Lake architecture, which includes many from brands such as Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Dell, get Linux app support in one fell swoop.

In a change that landed Wednesday morning, the developers switched on Linux app support for all Apollo Lake Chromebooks under the baseboards Reef and Coral. See below for a list of Chromebooks under these baseboards.

All Reef and Coral boards get Linux app support, that's a lot of Chromebooks!

See our list of Chromebooks that support Linux apps and what you can expect when Linux apps reach stable.

There are 18 Chromebooks from brands like Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Dell under Reef and Coral to our knowledge, but there could be more from other OEMs that are missing from this list:

OEM	Model	Codename	Baseboard
Lenovo	Lenovo Thinkpad 11e Chromebook / Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e Chromebook	Pyro	reef
Lenovo	Lenovo 500e Chromebook	Robo360	coral
Lenovo	Lenovo 100e Chromebook	Robo	coral
Acer	Acer Chromebook Spin 11 R751T	Electro	reef
Acer	Acer Chromebook 15 CB515-1HT/1H	Sand	reef
Acer	Acer Chromebook 11 (C732, C732T, C732L & C732LT )	Astronaut	coral
Acer	Acer Chromebook 11 (CB311-8H & CB311-8HT)	Santa	coral
Acer	Acer Chromebook Spin 11 (CP311-1H & CP311-1HN)	Lava	coral
Asus	ASUS Chromebook Flip C213SA	Reef	reef
Dell	Dell Chromebook 11 5190	Nasher	coral
Dell	Dell Chromebook 11 2-in-1 5190	Nasher360	coral

Apollo Lake is a generation of Intel mobile chips focused on efficient, low-power form factors. They are less powerful than the Kaby Lake chips in the Pixelbook and HP Chromebook X2 but should handle basic Linux apps with ease.

As the change has only just landed, Canary and Developer channels will see this first in the coming days and weeks. Stable or Beta channel users will have to wait until Chrome OS version 69.

Many of the Reef and Coral boards are education-focused, so it's worth noting that if you have a managed or enrolled device, access to Linux apps is toggled by the administrator.

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