[Freedombox-discuss] New Samsung Chromebook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
See 57:52 and following:
User-overide,
"having a way to put your own keys on it so you can sign your own
images and boot your own stuff."
Doctorow:
"for things that don't have user interfaces, like your legs."
Or insulin pumps, pacemakers, and ICDs.
-bewest
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Russell Edwards <russell at edwds.net> wrote:
> Not google's style?
>
> Goodness me... remind me what their business model is again. Isn't it
> something to do with spying on you and on-selling the data for profit?
>
> Russell
>
>
>
> On 20/10/12 19:01, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from peter green<plugwash at p10link.net> -----
>>
>> From: peter green<plugwash at p10link.net>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:21:24 +0100
>> To: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: New Samsung Chromebook
>> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228)
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>> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:51:39PM -0400, Bryan King wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am seriously thinking about it given the attractive price point of
>>>> $249.
>>>>
>>> Yes, but does Google want you to be able to install Linux on it
>>
>> I don't see why not. It's not google's style to sell locked down devices.
>>
>> Also I just had a chat on irc with a google employee who had the following
>> to say.
>>
>> <plugwash> Hexxeh, you arround?
>> <Hexxeh> yeah
>> <plugwash> just wondering if you know anything about the new chromebook
>> <Hexxeh> quite a bit, i worked on it :)
>> <Hexxeh> well, not directly, but same team anyhow
>> <plugwash> ok some questions
>> <plugwash> 1: can you put regular linux on it or are you stuck with
>> chromeos?
>> <plugwash> 2: does it overheat if you try and run it with the lid shut
>> under heavy CPU load for long periods
>> <plugwash> 3: is the USB stack reliable
>> <Hexxeh> you could debootstrap debian or something onto there
>> <Hexxeh> you do need to self-sign your own kernel or use the chrome os
>> one and put it into the spare KERN-C partition
>> <Hexxeh> as far as having the lid shut and thermals, i'm not too sure
>> <Hexxeh> it's certainly going to throttle before you kill it
>> <Hexxeh> i guess there's just too many factors that would affect it for
>> me to call that
>> <Hexxeh> USB stack wise, as far as I know, but don't quote me
>> <Hexxeh> if you find it isn't, do report bugs and people will take care
>> of it
>> <Hexxeh> i don't think we'd be releasing it if it weren't though ;)
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>> <plugwash> how is it cooled?
>> <Hexxeh> it's passively cooled
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>> <Hexxeh> heat gets conducted through the rest of the casing
>> <Hexxeh> as far as i know, anyway
>> <Hexxeh> i've used one of them for a while but i haven't torn it apart
>> and don't know massive amounts about the internal design
>> <plugwash> yeah, i'm just wondering how badly they would suffer if you
>> stacked a load of them on a rack shelf with USB3 hard drives and USB2
>> ethernet adaptors and used them as autobuilders
>> <Hexxeh> just asked around people who know more about this stuff
>> <Hexxeh> go ahead and stack them with the lids closed
>> <Hexxeh> as long as you're not nailing the GPU you ought to be fine
>> <Hexxeh> :)
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