Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-22 Thread Warren Young
On 8/16/2014 04:14, Warren Young wrote: It works: chronos@localhost ~/bin $ fossil version This is fossil version 1.30 [ee46563cbd] 2014-08-15 12:46:27 UTC This is on an Asus C200M: Just tried it on a Samsung 303C ARM-based Chromebook, and it works there, too. Exact same procedure

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-19 Thread Warren Young
On 8/19/2014 11:33, Stephan Beal wrote: A colleague of mine recently reported out-of-the-box success in encrypting his root partition Ubuntu's done this in its stock installer since 12.10. One of the things I trimmed from that already long post is the observation that booting through BIOS +

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-19 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I'm not aware of any small, well-built, inexpensive Linux-ready laptops > other than Chromebooks. Netbooks as a class have morphed into ... > Thank you for those insights - i've been waivering as well, mainly because of my poor experience

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-19 Thread Warren Young
On 8/18/2014 16:12, Ron W wrote: I have considered getting a Chrome book as a way to get a very inexpensive laptop, but this makes it sound like it would only be worth it to me if I could wipe it and install a decent Linux distro on it. I'm not aware of any small, well-built, inexpensive Linux

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-18 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > Sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth for that. Use ChromeOs ==> > GDocs or ChromeOS ==> remote CGI repo. > I have considered getting a Chrome book as a way to get a very inexpensive laptop, but this makes it sound like it would only

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Warren Young wrote: > The source control use case is hard to sell, since getting development > tools onto the Chrome OS side is a fair bit of a pain. Then having done > so, the sandboxing rules make testing and running your program painful. > That's always been

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-18 Thread Warren Young
On 8/16/2014 04:44, Stephan Beal wrote: Great! i've been eyeballing the Chromebook as my next PC, but it would first of course need to be able to do fossil. Of course, it's mainly just a Stupid Programmer Trick to use Fossil in Chrome OS proper, since once you've got an Ubuntu/Debian chroot s

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-16 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: > It works: > This is on an Asus C200M: > > $ uname -a > Linux localhost 3.10.18 #1 SMP Thu Aug 7 11:19:20 PDT 2014 x86_64 > Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2830 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > You have to switch the Chromebook into

[fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-16 Thread Warren Young
It works: chronos@localhost ~/bin $ fossil version This is fossil version 1.30 [ee46563cbd] 2014-08-15 12:46:27 UTC This is on an Asus C200M: $ uname -a Linux localhost 3.10.18 #1 SMP Thu Aug 7 11:19:20 PDT 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2830 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU