Here's a nice demo of a Chrome book running Ubuntu (for ARM). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmkViFJbAg
~Roger On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com>wrote: > Perhaps when we have an Arm version of LiveCode. It looks like a 'true' > OS can be installed on Chrome book hardware. See ChrUbuntu. > > http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com > > ~Roger > > Sent from my Pipo M2 > On Jun 23, 2013 12:41 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/23/2013 05:39 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: >> >>> You can't. Chromebooks are running Chromium, which is just enough OS to >>> get you into a browser (and a very minimal file system). >>> >>> >>> >> I have just fired up Chromium in VMware player and can see that it is not >> really >> what I would call an operating system at all: >> >> 1. All it seems to consist of in a web-browser and access to a Google >> storage space >> somewhere in "the cloud". >> >> 2. Because of this there is no 'Home' directory and nowhere to install LC >> 6. >> >> This is worse than those horrible internet kiosk things they have in >> airports; I really >> cannot quite see what the advantage of this would be over a conventional >> OS. >> >> Oh, well, wasted 30 minutes of my Sunday: going outside to shout Оставка >> and >> Червени боклуци in the streets in the wild hope that the BBC and CNN >> might actually >> notice that there has already been 10 days of significant political >> protests in Bulgaria: >> the fact that they haven't mentioned them is odd - well, not in the case >> of the BBC, >> which as the mouthpiece of British Government policy will keep quiet as >> it is in the >> interests of the GB government to have a bent government in the Balkans >> to criticise >> so GB citizens don't (as if they ever do) look to closely at the bent >> system in place there. >> >> Richmond. >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
