[GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Thu Nov 22 23:45:43 EST 2018


Can you go into more detail about this "userspace Linux sandbox"?
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:28:00PM -0500, Chris Tyler via talk wrote:
> The current Chromebooks will run a Linux userspace sandboxed very nicely *right
> out of the box, *neither crouton nor dev mode required. I have a Samsung
> Chromebook Plus (gen 1, with the high-dpi screen -- watch out for gen 2
> where they dropped to 1080 (and also regressed from ARM to Intel)) and the
> LInux userspace (Debian) is fabulous -- full development toolchain
> (including gdb etc), X window and wayland app support, and so on. The
> environments are semi-integrated -- there's a separate directory in the
> ChromeOS "Files" application that maps to $HOME in the sandbox/container,
> but any graphical apps you install into the sandbox show up on the ChromeOS
> main menu (e.g., LibreOffice, Gimp, Eschema, and so forth). Apparently
> deeper integration is coming; releases in the pipeline include the ability
> to do things like mount your Google Drive filesystem within the sandbox.
> 
> My wife has a Pixelbook (top-end Chromebook, gorgeous build with glass
> trackpad etc - I gave her the nice machine this time ;-) and the Linux
> userspace is supposed to work really well there, but I haven't tried it yet.
> 
> -Chris


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