Hi Ehud

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:58 PM, EK <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was looking yesterday at the newly-release Google "Chromebook Pixel",
> which has a gorgeous display and other nice features.
> However, since you cannot install much on it, having a Lyx-in-the-cloud
> capability could have converted it from a useless item to a desirable device
> (at least for me).

Great example. I agree that this would be nice. It's not impossible.
See, for example:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3NDc
But I doubt that it will ever happen for something like LyX.
I think a more practical alternative in this case would be to use SSH
with X. I guess your point though is that the pixel doesn't even allow
you to use SSH? In this case, I wonder if there are web services that
implement this (through Java?). I know that Amazon has a web SSH
client that allows you to connect to an instance but I don't imagine
it can do X.

As to not being able to install much on it, check this out:
http://liliputing.com/2013/02/the-chromebook-pixel-can-run-ubuntu-linux-mint-other-distros.html

Scott

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