[Chester LUG] Chromebook

[RICHARD SMEDLEY]

> On a kind of related note, this is the kind of thing I would use a Chromebook for:

Funnily enough my eldest, who's thinking of getting a Chromebook for college
(since shoulder-surfing them, after me reading this thread)...


> http://lifehacker.com/5974087/i-raised-my-kids-on-the-command-lineand-they-love-it

... started off with no GUI at age 4, just Emacs (for writing stories), then the 

startx route to running the GUI too.

My youngest uses a netbook with appropriate GUI but was happy enough
learning HTML and CSS with ssh and nano as the initial tools (with me
occasionally "cheating" and changing to Emacs when I needed to get 

something done quickly my way).

 - Richard



On 23 August 2013 16:03, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I mainly use it for lighter tasks or remote connections to other boxes. But as Stuart says, there's  an SD slot so I use a card for any larger files if necessary.
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>It's not the kind of laptop you'd use to run VMs, but as a general use Linux laptop it works well.
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>On 23 August 2013 15:56, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
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>some SD card I think
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>>On 23 August 2013 15:55, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>That sounds bliss. How do you work around the 16GB disk space limit? I assume you primarily use it for simple tasks?
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>>>On 23 August 2013 15:51, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Well I've been using one running Chrome OS and then Ubuntu in a chroot and that works very well. Battery life is great and it's nice and light to carry around.
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>>>>Probably one of the best Linux laptops I've used as most suffer from poor battery life or hardware support.
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>>>>On 23 August 2013 15:45, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Very nice. I've always wondered about using them for something other than Chrome OS which, quite frankly, I don't trust (which of course contradicts the very fact I am using GMail to send this very message).
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>>>>>On 23 August 2013 11:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>As we've had quite a few discussions (and a demo) about running Linux on a Chromebook, I thought it was worth mentioning that the Samsung ARM model has been reduced to £198 on Amazon!!
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>>>>>>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Chromebook-Wifi-Launched-2012/dp/B009RF0AQ8/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1377250783&sr=8-8&keywords=chromecast