I'm taking a trip out of the US and don't want to take my good computer
along, but I'd like something for email & looking at photos I take.
I found that Chromebooks are really cheap: I picked up a Dell 11.6"
Chromebook at Best Buy for $129.00. The neat thing is that you can load
Ubuntu linux by using a special key combination to put it into
"developer mode"; then you can switch back and forth with the Chrome OS
with just one keystroke. You have to do a bit of work, like replacing the
horrid "Netsurf" browser with Firefox, installing openssh, installing gimp
to process your pictures, etc.
But ... of course I had to install J. j64-807 does install, but still has
problems. Jconsole works fine for numerical stuff, but plot fails with
sh: 1: : Permission denied. Viewmat almost works. But jhs does work,
so I can get plots there. Unfortunately, jqt will need some work: it fails
with libQt5Core.so.5: No such file or directory. Still, these problems may
have a solution, and if so, this is a really inexpensive way to run J.
I've not seen Chromebooks mentioned here -- anyone else used one?
Regards, Patrick
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