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Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware not their OS

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RS Wood wrote: 

>  The first chromebooks were ARM chipped and somewhat underpowered, but Samsung, 
> Acer, and HP all offer Intel (Haswell) chip machines that run well and that Bodhi 
> and other have had an easy time developing software for. So it's easy to get Linux 
> on one. 
> There are two approaches, apparently. I'm still learning about this. One approach 
> is installing the Linux OS while the chromebook is in developer mode. It's probably 
> irreversible, but you're installing Linux because you dislike ChromeOS. The second 
> method installs Linux like an application so you boot up into ChomeOS and then run 
> the app, which gets Linux going - slower, but you can keep the original software 
> intact and have an easier time selling the machine if you give it up. 


There's a new review of the Acer C720p on Liliputing. It quotes the following specs: 
"11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Celeron 2955U Haswell processor, 
2GB of RAM, a 32GB solid state drive, and up to 7.5 hours of battery life". 

http://liliputing.com/2014/03/acer-c720p-touchscreen-chromebook-review.html 

The second half of that review discusses the use of a utility called crouton to 
easily install Debian or Ubuntu onto the machine, either in addition to ChromeOS 
or as a replacement. If installed in addition, the two operating systems will reportedly 
share the original ChromeOS kernel, ensuring all devices work properly and allowing 
easy switching back and forth with just a few key presses. I haven't researched 
crouton too much yet, but here is the github link. 

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton 

Later! 




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Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-06 15:05 +0000
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-06 22:49 +0000
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-07 09:09 +0000
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-07 10:46 +0000
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-06 18:12 -0500
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> - 2014-03-07 07:23 +0000
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-07 07:49 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 10:21 +0000
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-07 11:49 +0000
          Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 12:21 +0000
            Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-03-07 19:43 -0400
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 15:02 -0600
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2014-03-07 19:24 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-07 19:48 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-07 21:52 +0000
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-08 11:55 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-07 22:17 +0000
        Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware, not their OS Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-03-08 20:52 +0000
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> - 2014-03-07 01:55 -0600
  Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-07 19:06 -0600
    Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-17 07:53 +0100
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-17 14:22 +0000
      Re: Buying Chromebooks for their hardware  not their OS "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-18 14:46 -0600

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