[ale] May need purchase Laptop - Linux Friendly

[Scott Plante]

Sorry, I actually meant getting a Chromebook and loading a regular Linux distro on it. That's what Linus is doing with the Pixel. The hardware seems pretty nice for the price and you're not paying Microsoft. I haven't heard what, if anything, Google is charging the hardware manufacturers for (open source) ChromeOS though. 


That said, I don't know why you couldn't do something like Blender on ChromeOS. I believe they have a native interface that gives you OpenGL access. True, the $200 Chromebook probably doesn't have the juice, but the the Pixel certainly would. I also saw a fairly impressive 3D human anatomy Chrome OpenGL demo a while back. 

Scott 
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From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:21:18 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] May need purchase Laptop - Linux Friendly 

This is just my uninformed opinion - zero research - but I don't think chrome os or firefox os or "browser" os would give me the features and flexibility I expect from a computer, particularly as it relates to owning apps, running them off line, and manipulating lots of files on a hdd. 

(Diagram THAT sentence.) (Never mind, bad memories from pre college English.) 

For example, I doubt you'd ever see Blender (3d graphics design) running on a "browser" os. 

Sincerely, 

Ron 



Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> wrote: 

>Yeah, our Linux desktop purchases have come from GIM for that very 
>reason over the last few years. Dell servers, though, are not priced 
>that way. Actually, our most recent Windows purchase came from GIM as 
>well, since Dell only sells Win 8 (with very limited exceptions). GIM 
>builds their own desktops so it's easy to leave off a Windows license. 
>I guess it's not so easy to build a laptop from parts, and they say all 
>the laptop suppliers they deal with include Windows as part of the 
>package. 
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> 
>Tom, you might also consider a Chromebook. There are ones available at 
>several price points. I read Linus himself has been working on ensuring 
>kernel support and is using the high-end one as his main laptop. 
> 
> 
>Scott 
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>From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> 
>To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
>Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:26:54 PM 
>Subject: Re: [ale] May need purchase Laptop - Linux Friendly 
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>When I was looking at the Linux offerings on Dell, the hardware combo 
>for Linux was always a bit more than the lowest Winders version. So 
>there was ALWAYS a winders systems that cost less. and there was no 
>apple-to-apples comparison as they never offered the same hardware 
>combo for both OS's. 
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