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

[Martin Abente]

I finally had the time to try this,

As a first test I tried a fedora19 SOAS remix [1,2] and, except for the
sound, it worked out-of-box. I run it in parallel from a SD card.

Runs smoothly.

Refs:
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19/Remixes#Samsung_Exynos_5_Dual_Core_Cortex_A15
2.
http://parasense.fedorapeople.org/remixes/chromebook/f19-chromebook-SOAS.img.xz


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org>wrote:

> Hallo Christoph,
> I think sugar-build should work as-is.
>
> In order to save diskspace and ram, and because I found it inconvenient, I
> disabled the fedora chroot (broot).
> In order to get all dependencies you should install de Sugar packages from
> the AUR (mantained by cgueret).
>
> Currently I experience smaller icons than normal with the packaged sugar.
> Sugar-build runs fine though. I did have some issues building at first but
> I reported to sugar-devel [1] and those issues seem to be gone now (thanks
> to dnarvaez).
>
> [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2014-March/047419.html
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
> El sáb, 12 de abr 2014 a las 2:08 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <
> christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>
>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
>> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
>> co-founder, TechnikBasteln® [www.technikbasteln.net]
>>
>> e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
>>
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>
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>
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