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.)


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