I wish I hadn't thrown away my work in progress tutorial about slackware on chrome book as it contained some good tips about audio hacking. On Mar 31, 2013 10:12 PM, "Ottavio Caruso" <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are you using the default chrome os kernel or is it a native one? > On Mar 31, 2013 10:09 PM, "Stuart Winter" <m-li...@biscuit.org.uk> wrote: > >> >> > Incidentally Eric mentions the Chromebook as one of the reasons to port >> the >> > hf. I did install a full rootfs of Armedslack (sf) on the Chromebook >> and it >> > did work. I then gave up because of lack of feedback and because my unit >> > was faulty. >> >> Yep I'm writing this using WindowMaker with Slackware ARM on the >> Chomebook. I just used the miniroot and some Chromebook tweaks. >> I'm planning on making Slackware ARM installable on the Chromebook - I've >> already started laying the groundwork. >> >> Slackware ARM will run on any 32-bit machine that's armv4 + thumb or >> greater. Slackware needs a hard float port as we're the only distro >> without one, and given that ARM is becoming more prevalent it's (IMO) >> important that Slackware is able to deliver max performance on the >> machines with a hardware floating point unit -- allowing them to be able >> to render multi media efficiently. >> >> That said, for general usage (non multi media) I really don't think >> there's much in it with soft vs hard float. Running Firefox and some >> other stuff on this Chromebook is *fast* even with the default Slackware >> ARM packages. >> >> -- >> Stuart Winter >> Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com >> _______________________________________________ >> ARMedslack mailing list >> ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org >> http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack >> >
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