On Monday 29 April 2013 11:10:33 wireless wrote: > On 04/27/13 20:26, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 26 April 2013 16:45:45 wireless wrote: > >> On 04/26/13 16:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> depending on your exact needs, i might recommend a Samsung Arm > >>> Chromebook: > >>> http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os > >>> - devices/samsung-arm-chromebook > >>> > >>> that's my main arm dev platform now, and it's a decent laptop to boot > >>> :). it's also the same price as that dev board ($250). > >> > >> Interesting option. What OS do you run on that laptop? > >> multiboot? > > > > it ships with ChromeOS which is based on Gentoo and runs Linux. all the > > source has been released for the u-boot& linux, and most of it has been > > merged into the respective mainlines. > > I just read the wikipedia history of Chrome (OS). I did not realize > it was based on portage...nice. > > How easy is it to add ebuilds (packages?) Got a wiki or site for this > sort of shared user activity?
if you build it yourself from source (i.e. ChromiumOS), then it's pretty easy. all public docs are at http://dev.chromium.org/. > > so that's what i run on it ... plain Gentoo. > > So it's pretty straight forward to ebuild, even overlays or > home-rolled ebuilds? my build is plain Gentoo. i grabbed an armv7 hardfp stage3 and deployed it. > Have you ever tried sci-geosciences/opencpn ? never heard of it, so no > I'd be courious how readable the display is in bright sunlight? it's a normal matte screen finish. nothing special. at least it's not a glossy screen as then you'd be totally screwed :). > I'm going to purchase one this week. Best vendor for US customers? http://www.google.com/chromebooks/ has links to all the vendors -mike
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