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Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

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Post by dylangs1030 »

taligent wrote: post #29
3pt14159 wrote: post #27

That is f'ing awesome. The only thing holding me back from completely jumping in is Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Right now I'm dual booting Mac and Ubuntu and it is a massive pain. It crashes frequently enough for me to think about it and switching OS just to touch up some photos or cut some assets sucks. Disclosure: I have financial interest in Apple succeeding. I also have worked on a project for Google regarding…

Why don't you just run Ubuntu in VirtualBox/Parallels ?

The virtue of the method detailed in the article using crouton is that Ubuntu runs alongside Chrome OS without sucking up memory like a dehydrated sponge.

Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

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Post by nathansobo »

It boggles my mind that Google isn't making Chrome OS more developer-friendly. If they could bring developers on board, they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market. They should enable us to build privileged native applications that use the DOM for their user interface but have unfettered access to the underlying OS just like any other application would.

Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

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Post by trsohmers »

mjs wrote: post #22
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly sure it's a reference to the generally disposable and fully encrypted nature of Chrome OS. There's no reason it wouldn't be password protectable and the link describes that the chroot can be encrypted as well.

To run crouton you need to put your machine into developer mode though, which could mean that all bets are off. (e.g. if you power it off, it comes back up without requiring a password, since this is annoying/unnecessary if you're actually developing for Chrome OS.)

Uh, no. I have had my Samsung ARM chromebook in developer mode since day one, and I always need to put in my Google password to log in, even if you are not connected to a network.

Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

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Post by trsohmers »

grayrest wrote: post #15
bryanlarsen wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm anxiously waiting for teardown info to see how easy it is to upgrade. I used a 64GB SSD in my main work machine until very recently and would have no problems going back, but if I buy a $1300 laptop, it has to have a little bit of room to grow. The 4GB RAM spec is more worrisome to me, and far less likely to be user upgradable.

The SSD is soldered to the MB. Neither piece is user serviceable. This was mentioned in the comments of a googler g+ post showing off crouton the day of the announcement by the author.

That was for the Samsung ARM chromebook, not the new Chromebook Pixel, which has an Intel i5 processor. I bet it is just as replaceable as the Macbook Air's internals (e.g. replaceable, but you need one of the small SSD-sticks)

Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

#37

Post by joezydeco »

codenerdz wrote: post #24
joezydeco wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you watch the Apple Store, you can get a refurbished 13.3" Air for $1,269. Retina display (2560x1600, 227 dpi), 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD.

You surely mean MBP retina, not air :)

Sorry yeah, I meant MBP.

Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

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Post by Alterlife »

nathansobo wrote: post #32

It boggles my mind that Google isn't making Chrome OS more developer-friendly. If they could bring developers on board, they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market. They should enable us to build privileged native applications that use the DOM for their user interface but have unfettered access to the underlying OS just like any other application would.

> they'd have a good beachhead for taking over the desktop market.

But do they want the desktop market? As far as I've seen so far, Chrome OS devices are consumer targeted devices iPhones... only laptop/htpc shaped. Developers are just not the target audience.

Re: Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

trsohmers wrote: post #35
mjs wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To run crouton you need to put your machine into developer mode though, which could mean that all bets are off. (e.g. if you power it off, it comes back up without requiring a password, since this is annoying/unnecessary if you're actually developing for Chrome OS.)

Uh, no. I have had my Samsung ARM chromebook in developer mode since day one, and I always need to put in my Google password to log in, even if you are not connected to a network.

Same here, not sure what mjs is talking about.
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