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| Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
| My Slackware64 13.37 root partition only uses about 8 GB. That's the whole
system except for user files. There's probably a way to slim that down that you
could find somewhere.
If the Chromebook allows USB booting you could make
a USB boot stick and test whether Slackware likes the Chromebook. For example,
there are instructions here:
alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-slackware-using-usb-thumb-drive/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 08:46 AM EDT |
The fact that a very intelligent person like you needs to research her purchase
and then struggle to fit Linux onto it is the problem.
The time cost of the installation is just not worth it.
I currently have three old HP netbooks (with 10.6 1366 x 768 screens) that I
bought about 4 years ago. The initial installs were a struggle. I have gone to
Ubuntu with the LXDE desktop for them and now upgrades are bearable.
I just want to go to the store on the internet and buy a full blown Ubuntu or
Debian system pre-installed for $300. The same $300 that everyone who
buys the Chromebook or the 11.6 inch Microsoft machine. No hoops to jump
through with Googling for how to overcome this install obstacle or that.
I applaud Google for being the most Linux using company. But I do not want
my data and my applications to be beholden to them for all of time.
Linux has already won in phones, soon to be in tablets, and certainly in the
cloud (internet servers). It is this desktop thing that holds Microsoft and
Apple. And also the Microsoft Office incompatibility for minor things like
fonts and Bloomberg linking applications. I confess -- I hate Microsoft. I can
tolerate Apple. I like Google. I love Linux.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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