[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Running Fedora 20 with Sugar on a Chromebook?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hola Sebastian,

thanks a lot for sharing your experiences, much appreciated.

Did you have to jump through any special hoops to make sugar-build run?

Cheers,
Christoph


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org>wrote:

> I have the C720. It's a beauty and really fast.
>
> It runs sugar-build on top of Manjaro GNU/Linux (Arch based) quite nicely.
>
> The only issue I guess is at boot time the chromebook will warn you that
> "OS verification has been disabled, press something to enable it".
>
> If you don't choose to re enable OS verification, it then makes you wait
> 30 secs, unless you know to press Ctrl-L.
>
> Legend says it's possible to flash a new coreboot bios on it but I can't
> affort the risk to brick it.
>
> In retrospect, I might have chosen to get the C720P that doubles the
> storage and memory and comes with a touchscreen.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
> El vie, 11 de abr 2014 a las 10:00 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <
> christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> Hi all,
>
> because the question came up over drinks last night and now again at lunch
> here in Paris I was wondering whether anyone here has tried installing
> Fedora 20 with Sugar on a Chromebook?
>
> I've done some research and you can find some good information about
> installing Arch Linux on a Chromebook as well as some partial information
> plus scripts for getting Fedora to run on an Acer's Intel-based D720 (
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295596). Apparently the
> results are quite good.
>
> Anyway, curious to see whether anyone has any experiences beyond what's
> currently documented on
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#Chromebook
> ?
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
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> Christoph Derndorfer
>
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Christoph Derndorfer

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