Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Mon Jun 24 09:56:25 EDT 2013


Here's a nice demo of a Chrome book running Ubuntu (for ARM).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmkViFJbAg

~Roger


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>wrote:

> Perhaps when we have an Arm version of LiveCode.  It looks like a 'true'
> OS can be installed on Chrome book hardware.  See ChrUbuntu.
>
> http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com
>
> ~Roger
>
> Sent from my Pipo M2
> On Jun 23, 2013 12:41 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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