Trisquel on Samsung Chromebook?
Hello. I have acquired a Samsung Chromebook and was wondering if anyone has installed Trisquel on such a machine. Is it possible, or are there too many hurdles? I beleive it's the series 3 version.
Thanks!
ARM or x86?
Series 3 Chromebooks use Celeron or i5.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Chromeboxes)
Chromebooks is different from Chromeboxes.
Oct 2012 Samsung Series 3 XE303C12 1.7 GHz Samsung Exynos 5 Dual
Sorry, not enough information! It's an arm processor, Exynos 5250 Dual Core, 2GB RAM and 16GB flash storage. icarolongo, your're spot on! I know it will run ubuntu alongside chrome os, but would greatly prefer Trisquel.
It appears to be an ARM CPU. Trisquel doesn't support ARM, only x86.
I guess no free GNU/Linux supports ARM even if their upstreams do.
*gNewSense
*Trisquel
*Parabola
*Ututo
On 09/07/2013 04:22 PM, name at domain wrote:
> I guess no free GNU/Linux supports ARM even if their upstreams do.
>
> *gNewSense
> *Trisquel
> *Parabola
> *Ututo
>
Yes, that is unfortunate, especially because both gNewSense and Parabola
support MIPS, a much less popular architecture. (Although that is
undoubtedly due to the Lemote Yeelong)
In that case, I would imagine the best you can do is install main
Debian, and make sure that you do not turn on the "non-free" and
"contrib" repositories. This may not be ideal, but it seems to be the
only way to use the Chromebook in software freedom.
Okay, thanks. I'll try and flog it on eBay.
Hey, not all the software on the nonfree repository is propietary software, some game data are in the non-free even if the software is under GPL.
On 09/07/2013 05:03 PM, name at domain wrote:
> Hey, not all the software on the nonfree repository is propietary
> software, some game data are in the non-free even if the software is
> under GPL.
>
>
That is true, and is due to disagreements between the FSF's definition
of software freedom and Debian's Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). That
said, I believe it would be wise to recommend the more conservative
approach of sticking to Debian main.
That said, the choice is ultimately up to each individual user. So if
you wish to have the nonfree repositories open, but stick to GPL
software, more power to you.
I think RMS would call that a "slippery slope" if I'm not mistaken. If I were more technically adept I'd attempt to dicsern between free and nonfree. Sadly I'm not!