Chromebook:
Give me a bash$
Freedoms and limitations with respect to
Chromebooks!
Clive Boulton | github.com/cliveb
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Macbook, Windows or
Chromebook?
Recently developers have started exploring for
reasonable alternatives to Macbooks.
Chromebooks are one option to get a bash
prompt. We'll provide doc and tips to Crouton
your Chromebook to run Ubuntu. We'll
summarize and compare the different options in
recent Windows 10 with Ubuntu and ephemeral
bash in Google cloud with the freedoms and
limitations with respect to Chromebook - Give
me a bash$.
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Motivation
● MacBook Pro 2008
● Pixel 2013 at Google I/O
● Macbook 2016 touch bar
● Windows 10 Ubuntu
● Android on Chromebooks
● DevOps (Linux) / AppOps (WebDev)
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Brett Slatkin’s analysis
“Discovering my inner curmudgeon: A Linux
laptop review”
Ubuntu, Screen, Trackpad, keyboard, Sound,
Battery & power, Two-in-one, Window manager
and programs. Conclusion!
http://www.onebigfluke.com/
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Chromebook
Web apps, email, docs, media consumption.
to “inspire the ecosystem (hardware and web
devs around high-res and touch)."
ChromeOS Chrome browsers on Linux
(Chromium OSS)
Android Apps - Google Play(store)
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Macbook
Desktop replacement
Media editing (movies, photoshop)
Full Stack software developers web to devops
Unix > NeXT, Linux > OS X > MacOS > USB-C
touchbar!!
Backfitting iOS to OS X? - iTunes (AppStore)
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Windows (book)
Microsoft Surface is a series of touchscreen
Windows personal computers
Designed to be premium devices that set
examples to Windows OEMs.
Introducing Windows 10 S Streamlined for
security and superior performance.
Watch that new
Chromebooks Support
Android which means
a touch screen is
required UX.
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ChromeBook
Deals
ACER
CHROMEBOOK
14 FOR $229:
WHY
COSTCO’S
BLACK FRIDAY
DEAL WAS
TOUGH TO
BEAT
chromeunboxed.com
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Cost...
Nice Chromebook ASUS C302 flip $499
Nice Macbook 15 inch touch $2,399
Nice Surface Book Intel Core i7 $2,399
HP Chromebook m7 16GB $1,069
http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/business-solutions/hp-chromebook-13-373002--1
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Give me a bash$
Crouton: (yay!)
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
Caret
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caret/fljalecfjciodhpcledpamjachpme
lml?hl=en
Google Cloud (GCE VM)
https://console.cloud.google.com
Eclipse Che
https://codenvy.com
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Crouton your Chromebook
Run Ubuntu
http://www.codedonut.com/chromebook/install-crouton-chrom
ebook/ ℅ Edreih Aldana
Summary-Give me a bash$
Give me a
bash$
Chromebook Macbook Windows(book)
ChromeOS Designed for Web
(no executable file
system).
iPad Windows 10 S
Streamlined for
security and superior
performance.
MacOS BSD codebase
Windows Surface Laptop Windows 10
Ubuntu Crouton Ubuntu
14.04.5 LTS (Trusty
Tahr)
Linux native Windows Subsystem
for Linux (WSL)