On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 07:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > >> I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer >> either ubuntu desktop or fedora. >> > > Something that has intrigued me recently is the idea of running a fairly > standard Linux on a Chromebook. They are small and cheap, and have long > battery life. > > [snip] > The only thing I use them for that I really care about is my Nikon DSLR, > and in that case my camera has dual SD slots and I have them configured in > redundant mode where every picture gets stored on both cards. At any moment > one of the two cards in my camera is a new one being used for the first > time that when full will then be retired as archive (and backed up on > multiple hard disks). > > I've been running Ubuntu on Chromebooks via Crouton quite nicely. BUT, a big downside is throwing my 18 megapixel DSLR sd card into it... It just doesn't have the 'horsepower' to display large images in a timely fashion. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
