[ale] Chromebook is to Android as Ipad is Iphone?

[Jerald Sheets]

You mean like all our worldwide deployments of Linux both at the server and
desktop level when I was at Apple?  <rolls eyes>

Don't give into the hate.  It leads to the dark side.

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Jerald M. Sheets jr.


On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

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> *From: *"DjPfulio" <DjPfulio at jdpfu.com>
> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> *Sent: *Monday, December 7, 2015 9:17:19 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Chromebook is to Android as Ipad is Iphone?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Can I use them with Chome OS on them.  I need to simply run 3 programs.
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> 1.  Chrome for web
> 2.  OpenVPN or vtun.
> 3.  xterm with tabs and many ssh sessions to different systems.
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> 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.
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