Has anyone here tried a Chromebook?

[Stephen]

Well its not so much as finding a Rom for it as just getting it to take a
new Kernel and OS load. there are allot of people hacking their chromebooks
to do various things.


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I haven't looked to see if the bootloader is unlockable on the
> chromebooks, but otherwise if so, it's really not typically "risky". I've
> been romming/unlocking phones since winmo3/pre/early androids and never
> bricked a device that wasn't recoverable via a factory recovery means.
>  Samsung is decent about providing unlock capability, so I would expect it
> is or will be unlockable by end-users as most of their modern devices are.
>
> Finding a rom that works on it, maybe not so much.  Canonical ported an
> ubuntu to the nexus7, and later the gnex as ubuntu phone, but it's a matter
> of getting the system working with still somewhat irregular hardware quirks
> in each, including x with capable drivers for direct render hardware
> acceleration and multitouch.  Native ubuntu on arm phone-ish devices is
> still a WIP.
>
> More easily you can usually get ubuntu to run externally atop the android
> kernel, and there's an app to guide you through setting it up in SD on play
> for ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, or backtrack5.  I had 12.04 on my gnex for a bit,
> and would vnc to the desktop for use.  A bit kludgy, but gave me some
> decent usability aside from unity itself being a pig and slowing the entire
> phone down.  LXDE is a much better route I'd heard, but never got to try.
>
> I'm trying to find some time to set up ubuntu over android on my
> transformer prime infinity with the keyboard dock to see how my mileage is
> with it, but hit some quirks of cyanogenmod 10.1 on it.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 01/14/2013 09:01 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>
>> The samsung chromebook runs a dual-core Exynos 5 processor
>> (smartphone/tablet ARM 15 chip).  It might be possible to get Linux
>> running, but you need to get an ARM build.
>> Also, there is a secure boot feature that may prevent running anything
>> other than ChromeOS on the system (absent a risky unlock procedure).
>> If you want to hack, then get the C7, which is far more amenable to being
>> "repurposed"; the Samsung version really is intended as an "appliance"
>> laptop.
>>
>> That said, I have the Samsung Chromebook, and it's a very nice tagalong
>> device; not a primary device, but very good to take with me just about
>> anywhere I might want to have a real keyboard and remote access, even when
>> I'm not sure whether I'll use it or not.
>>
>> It's (almost) completely useless without WiFi, however (no wired port,
>> and no cell option), so either have a mobile hotspot on hand or be sure
>> there's WiFi available wherever it is you're going.
>>
>>
>> On 01/14/2013 05:40 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... [chromebooks] are 100% purpose built to run just a browser.
>>>> Within that there are a number of tools giving you a great deal
>>>> of functionality inside the chrome browser as a plugin. One of my
>>>> favorites of these is an SSH client. they also have RDP and VNC
>>>> clients as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What is RDP?
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to install Linux on the Samsung chromebook?
>>> I've read that it is being done on the Acer C7 chromebook.
>>>
>>> Or could one boot Linux from a USB flash stick on the Samsung?
>>>
>>>
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