Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-19 Thread Warren Young
On 8/18/2014 16:12, Ron W wrote: I have considered getting a Chrome book as a way to get a very inexpensive laptop, but this makes it sound like it would only be worth it to me if I could wipe it and install a decent Linux distro on it. I'm not aware of any small, well-built, inexpensive

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-19 Thread Stephan Beal
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

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-19 Thread Warren Young
a Chromebook, if you squint. http://crunchbang.org/ It starts up a *lot* faster than Ubuntu. Still slower than a Chromebook, though. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-18 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth for that. Use ChromeOs == GDocs or ChromeOS == remote CGI repo. I have considered getting a Chrome book as a way to get a very inexpensive laptop, but this makes it sound

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on a Chromebook

2014-08-16 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: It works: This is on an Asus C200M: $ uname -a Linux localhost 3.10.18 #1 SMP Thu Aug 7 11:19:20 PDT 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2830 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux You have to switch the