Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

From	Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented
Date	2015-10-18 12:20 +0200
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:29:31 -0500
rlharris@oplink.net wrote:

> On Sat, October 17, 2015 3:22 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > No problem!
> > I have the first generation EeePC, which I would happily give away, but
> > I doubt you plan on visiting Sweden anytime soon? ;)  
> 
> Your offer is gracious, Sven.
> 
> However, I just found an outfit which has a few eeePC in stock, at about
> US$225; the product series is EeeBook X205, with 32Gbyte flash memory. 
> Would one of these be suitable?  I can send you the URL.

A very quick web search tells me that people have gotten Ubuntu running
on this with a little hacking, but that you need a 4.0 kernel for wifi
and sound does not work at all. There is also a page for it on the
Debian wiki, that seems to indicate you can get Jessie running:

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA

> > Have you considered liberating a Chromebook?  
> 
> The same outfit has in stock a large number of Lenovo Chromebook N21, with
> ChomeOS and 16Gbyte solid-state drive, at US$200.  (11.8in x 8.5in versus
> 11.3in x 7.6in for the eeePC)

Well, what I can find tells me that running some sort of Linux in a
chroot should be pretty straightforward, but that is probably not what
you want. To run a full, standard Linux distribution such as Debian, you
would need to open the machine up to remove a jumper or a screw, flash
the firmware, and cross your fingers - this will also remove the
ability to boot ChromeOS. The following link sums it up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/3dkk9n/help_anyone_have_experience_with_the_lenovo_n21/

Even if you do all that, I can't find anything that says everything
_will_ work correctly, just that it _should_.

Petter

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smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 00:00 +0200
  Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented dean <deanshannon3@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 03:10 +0200
    Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 03:50 +0200
      Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-17 05:00 +0200
      Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-17 14:30 +0200
    Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
      Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 19:30 +0200
        Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2015-10-17 21:00 +0200
          Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-17 21:20 +0200
            Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-10-18 16:50 +0200
              Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2015-10-18 19:30 +0200
              Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-18 22:00 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-10-19 02:40 +0200
        Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-17 21:30 +0200
          Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 21:50 +0200
            Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-17 22:30 +0200
              Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 23:40 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-18 12:20 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-10-18 12:20 +0200
              Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 00:10 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-18 01:20 +0200
            Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-10-18 01:30 +0200
              Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-18 02:50 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-10-18 14:20 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-10-18 14:40 +0200
                Debian on netbooks: was Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 15:20 +0200
                Re: Debian on netbooks: was Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 15:30 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 16:40 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2015-10-18 16:40 +0200
                Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2015-10-18 16:40 +0200
  Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-17 15:40 +0200
    Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
      Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-17 19:40 +0200
        Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Terence <terence.john@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 09:30 +0200
          Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-18 10:10 +0200
            Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Terence <terence.john@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 10:10 +0200
      Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-10-17 21:50 +0200
        Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-17 22:10 +0200
          Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-10-17 23:10 +0200

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