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It's already braindead easy to put Linux on the ARM Samsung Chromebook. One of the first things I did was to assemble my own personal Linux distro and besides h
by neverm0re 14y ago
It's already braindead easy to put Linux on the ARM Samsung Chromebook. One of the first things I did was to assemble my own personal Linux distro and besides having to copy some blob files out of the original ChromeOS image, it's all very straight-forward stuff and I pulled up about a hundred packages I wanted including an X.org stack without fuss. The compile speeds are adequate if you aren't cross-compiling, I've certainly put up with worse.
I personally have little interest in the Pixel based on the specs. I think X86 is excessively 'big iron' now for a majority of needs and I find the lack of USB3 is mystifying. The screen looks interesting, but it's nothing I actually /need/ and certainly not worth another thousand bucks. I've personally taken to just using X86 for storage/cross-compile servers for the rest of my cheap ARM/MIPS/etc. crap and I've made it a point to stop buying expensive hardware. What $250 buys you now is actually pretty ridiculously awesome.
- pax 14y ago'brain-dead easy ... assemble my own personal distro' :))
- roc 14y agoYou're talking about developers, no?
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- neverm0re 14y ago* Enable developer mode.[1] * Drop Crouton[2] onto Chromebook to get a full dev stack and unfortunate Ubuntu/XFCE environment. * Set up chroot and start building other people's crap. * Write to SD Card/internal storage and reboot. Which step here is hard? Tedious to roll your own I'd give you, but you don't even need to as there's stuff like ArchLinuxARM[3] which skips the middle two steps. [1]: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/samsung-arm-chromebook https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/deve... [2]: https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton [3]: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung-chromebook http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung-chromebook
- marban 14y agoAny words on the performance? I feel like my Samsung Chromebook is already pretty busy running five browser tabs at the same time.
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- neverm0re 14y agoWhoops, serves me right for not double-checking [2]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
- alexose 14y agoNot gonna lie, I just spent several minutes trying to figure out what context sensitive notifications for Android had to do with hacking the chromebook.