Re: New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-19 Thread peter green
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:51:39PM -0400, Bryan King wrote: I am seriously thinking about it given the attractive price point of $249. Yes, but does Google want you to be able to install Linux on it I don't see why not. It's not google's style to sell locked down de

Re: New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-19 Thread Bryan King
I've got Debian running on the HP MV2120 MediaVault and as a VM on top of Windows (using VirtualBox as the VM Manager). But looking to something that is inexpensive and bullet proof for my youngest two boys to use. This might do the trick. If they get adventurous in computers in later years, as

Re: New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-19 Thread Ted To
Comment at: http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2012/10/18/new-thing-to-buy-samsung-chromebook/ According to Olof Johansson there will be developer switch. He said: “And taking off the write protect for firmware and flashing a regular u-boot on it isn’t hard, so you can boot anything you want (u

Re: New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:51:39PM -0400, Bryan King wrote: > I am seriously thinking about it given the attractive price point of $249. Yes, but does Google want you to be able to install Linux on it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-19 Thread zoof
Apparently there will be a 3G version for $329 . Any ideas how well the 3G will work under debian? I read a post about the 3G with the CR-48 and it seemed rather clunky (boot into chromeos, get connection and reboot into linux).