Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Sun Jun 23 13:09:44 EDT 2013


The new units also have a certain amount of local storage for using with
Google Drive.

The chromebook is designed mainly to be a lightweight, fast, cheap,
high-battery life machine for running HTML5.  The main weakness, IMHO, is
that it is about 5 years late because ipads and android tablets are far
more appealing at around the same money.


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 06/23/2013 05:39 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:
>
>> You can't.  Chromebooks are running Chromium, which is just enough OS to
>> get you into a browser (and a very minimal file system).
>>
>>
>>
> I have just fired up Chromium in VMware player and can see that it is not
> really
> what I would call an operating system at all:
>
> 1. All it seems to consist of in a web-browser and access to a Google
> storage space
> somewhere in "the cloud".
>
> 2. Because of this there is no 'Home' directory and nowhere to install LC
> 6.
>
> This is worse than those horrible internet kiosk things they have in
> airports; I really
> cannot quite see what the advantage of this would be over a conventional
> OS.
>
> Oh, well, wasted 30 minutes of my Sunday: going outside to shout Оставка
> and
> Червени боклуци in the streets in the wild hope that the BBC and CNN might
> actually
> notice that there has already been 10 days of significant political
> protests in Bulgaria:
> the fact that they haven't mentioned them is odd - well, not in the case
> of the BBC,
> which as the mouthpiece of British Government policy will keep quiet as it
> is in the
> interests of the GB government to have a bent government in the Balkans to
> criticise
> so GB citizens don't (as if they ever do) look to closely at the bent
> system in place there.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
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