On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> I'm not aware of any small, well-built, inexpensive Linux-ready laptops > other than Chromebooks. Netbooks as a class have morphed into ... > <huge snip> Thank you for those insights - i've been waivering as well, mainly because of my poor experience with setting up a dev environment on a non-Linux mobile system. 3. Crouton makes it easy to encrypt your Linux chroot, while you allow your > Chrome desktop system slice to remain protected only by the password. This > lets you partition your world into relatively low-security things that you > do on the Chrome OS side, with the sensitive stuff hidden away in the > encrypted chroot box. > A colleague of mine recently reported out-of-the-box success in encrypting his root partition using the latest Mint Linux on a high-end laptop (don't remember the model - one of our newer dev laptops at work). > The risks from the unencrypted Chrome OS side are small next to the risks > of using a cloud-based OS in the first place. LOL! Hadn't thought about it, but having a cloud OS basically guarantees that _someone_ in the chain will eventually have access to your data, even if doing so requires a court order to the parent company (in another country). (For the record, i'm open to cloud use, but also respect concerns like the one you raise.) -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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