<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Andrew, you should look at <a href="http://codiad.com/">http://codiad.com/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">And The Chromebook became much more useful to me when android apps were able to run on one. But still mostly just cute rather than genuinely useful. However. this is a converged environment that could be a really killer app.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Andrew McRobb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrewmcrobb@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrewmcrobb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Great, I know there are web services that provide a sort of "IDE" experience for us devs when it comes to programming, but I don't trust those services 100%... So I really love the direction they are going. I know Dell kicked out some Linux based Laptops with small memory, but they are a joke from my experience. Like, they belong to a 10 year old. So getting a sort of meaty piece of machine with some real functionality sounds perfect.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-3933214686993564033gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)">Andrew McRobb</span><br></font></div><font size="4"><font size="2">Full-time Software Developer</font><br></font></div><font size="4"><font size="2">Part-time Freelancer</font><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><a href="http://mcrobb.info" target="_blank"><font size="2">mcrobb.info</font></a><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That is actually really cool to see/hear. I've liked their hardware, but a "web-based os" is pretty absurd to me as trying to do the job of an engineer on an tablet or phone. I could, but geez, why? Growing up with PC/Laptops, Chromebooks always struck me the drivel, but I've tried everything for years to run android apps under linux as the final killer app, and simply nothing works. I could tolerate the stupid webapp thing in the background if I can apt install nmap, wireshark, libreoffice, and other tools I use under linux on a chromebook, I think...<div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-3933214686993564033h5">On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-3933214686993564033h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">So it appears that google is building up their ChromeOS again and adding apt-get/apt so you can install full fledged Linux applications.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">This kind of makes a Chromebook a hugely useful device for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-chrome-os-and-chromebooks-get-new-app-muscle-with-built-in-linux/" target="_blank">https://www.cnet.com/news/goog<wbr>les-chrome-os-and-chromebooks-<wbr>get-new-app-muscle-with-built-<wbr>in-linux/</a></font><span class="m_-3933214686993564033m_7253901601259105230HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="m_-3933214686993564033m_7253901601259105230HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-3933214686993564033m_7253901601259105230m_-4263156071644750716gmail_signature">A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.<br><br>Stephen<br><br></div>
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