<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"DjPfulio" <DjPfulio@jdpfu.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, December 7, 2015 9:17:19 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Chromebook is to Android as Ipad is Iphone?<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> For nerds, a Chromebook is an extremely cheap way to get a netbook that can easily run most light Linux distributions. Of course, sometimes installing Linux on a Chromebook is non-trivial. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I may have 2 Samsung Chrombooks. A neighbor at our office building sold their company and was liquidating stuff that was no longer needed. There were two there and I told an employee to grab them.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Can I use them with Chome OS on them. I need to simply run 3 programs.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>1. Chrome for web</div><div>2. OpenVPN or vtun. </div><div>3. xterm with tabs and many ssh sessions to different systems.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>That's it. I think the last two will be an issue because I thought there was no real command line access to these systems. Just a web interface as the main GUI.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><br></div></div></body></html>