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Vim version referenced is horrifically out of date. Their dev trunk is pretty stable, it'd be good if he'd update the post.
The real question is why have we devs been forced to bastardize this OS since 2009 in order to actually use the darn thing? Where's the innovation Google? Where's the Chromebook for Devs? Because I bet if we looked at the numbers, we're the only ones buying these things anyways.
Ummmm. It is possible to run a full-blown Ubuntu including arbitrary kernels etc. Some are doing it. This is just an easier method if all you want is access to a powerful Debian userland: it turns out that Debian already solved the problem of creating a self-consistent cross-compiled directory tree ages ago so it makes sense to reuse that solution here.
I love my chromebook so I'm fairly interested in doing this. I have two questions: 1) How does having a chroot environment affect battery life? Does access to the Ubuntu tools cost a ton of battery? 2) After I go into developer mode can I still get updates to Chrome OS?
Article author here. Anecdotally the battery life takes a bit of a hit, but I've been running it pretty hard to get everything installed. I haven't done any tests. I have a suspicion that Chrome limits its CPU usage, and the chroot does not. That said, the battery life isn't completely shot in the chroot. I got my Chromebook on Monday, so I haven't updated it after initial boot. I'm not sure about the updating issues…
I love my chromebook so I'm fairly interested in doing this. I have two questions: 1) How does having a chroot environment affect battery life? Does access to the Ubuntu tools cost a ton of battery? 2) After I go into developer mode can I still get updates to Chrome OS?
Thanks!
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He covered web based IDEs and also having a dev machine to ssh into, most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work. How does action.io solve that?
> most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work we think this is a situation of "skating to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is", but we do have plans to build a bridge between an offline/online dev environment. If you'd like an invite, please email me at arun action io
You'd have to sync the state of the VM when they come online again, but that could be done efficiently from within the VM in a manner similar to dropbox syncing.
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Ummmm. It is possible to run a full-blown Ubuntu including arbitrary kernels etc. Some are doing it. This is just an easier method if all you want is access to a powerful Debian userland: it turns out that Debian already solved the problem of creating a self-consistent cross-compiled directory tree ages ago so it makes sense to reuse that solution here.
Ubuntu is still not ChromeOS -- my point is simply, why has Google not pursued the "lets build a $250 dev box for startups" avenue... since we've been playing this game going on 4 years now with not much traction beyond the dev community.
AFAIK, most sales are still to schools and a few enterprise installations: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/maybe-those-chromebooks-wer...
"Still, with over 2,000 schools now using Chromebooks, the real market for these devices sure seems to be in the education space. Over the last year or so, I’ve heard from a number of educators that they prefer to use Chromebooks with their students than an iPad (their students probably think the exact opposite…). Not only are they obviously cheaper and come with service contracts and management consoles for administrators, but having a full keyboard and larger screen clearly make them attractive devices in the view of many teachers and school administrators. The fact that the devices auto-update regularly and are pretty much safe from viruses also makes for an attractive selling point when compared to traditional laptops. For Google, of course, this also means many of these kids will grow up in the Google ecosystem of Gmail and Google Drive, which surely isn’t going to hurt it once these students go on to college or get jobs."
I love my chromebook so I'm fairly interested in doing this. I have two questions: 1) How does having a chroot environment affect battery life? Does access to the Ubuntu tools cost a ton of battery? 2) After I go into developer mode can I still get updates to Chrome OS?
I've been thinking about getting a chromebook but as a macbook air user I'm not sure if it's worth it. Do you have any thoughts on an Air compared to the advantages of a chromebook? Thanks!
I know the OP was interested in unix tools, but I've been wondering could you build a lightweight IDE or dev toolset in chrome itself? It looks like action.io and cloud9 have been some nice browser based tools, but what about building something using google native client that runs locally in chrome?