Pi.BerkeleyLUG: Meeting tomorrow Sunday 17.12.2023.

[tom r lopes]

Sorry for the late notice. 

Tomorrow at SudoRoom 11am to 2pm. 

Press the buzzer for access (white button in black case) or call or text me at 5109842455. 

My probably agenda will be to work on the pole of Chromebooks. Bypassing the enterprise enrollment and installing Linux. Not sure what distro to use as these are limited machines. 4gb ram but only 16gb storage. I've tried Lubuntu but it fills storage real quick. Others have tried more minimal distros (AntiX?) and they have trouble with hardware drivers.   

Aaron, maybe you can take a look. Free Chromebook for you.   

As always you are welcome to work on your own projects. 

Thomas

P.S.  I'll try to scope out cafe's this weekend for Xmas Eve meeting of the regular LUG

[ace36]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:59 AM tom r lopes <tomr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tomorrow at SudoRoom 11am to 2pm. 

My probably agenda will be to work on the pole of Chromebooks. Bypassing the enterprise enrollment and installing Linux. Not sure what distro to use as these are limited machines. 4gb ram but only 16gb storage. I've tried Lubuntu but it fills storage real quick. Others have tried more minimal distros (AntiX?) and they have trouble with hardware drivers.   

Aaron, maybe you can take a look. Free Chromebook for you.

As always you are welcome to work on your own projects.

 

No "Free Chromebook" for this one, thanks! :-)

Thomas, just throwing this idea out there; How about both giving-away the Chromebook +and+ getting help with the other Chromebooks at one of Sudo Room's upcoming Tuesday Hardware Hacking Night? 

SudoRoom IS still having these in conjunction with Peter Mui's Fixit Clinic, yes??

Cannot atttend Tue's HW event(s) myself, but maybe you(Thomas) and others reading this can?

Anyways, just an idea here....

P.S.  I'll try to scope out cafe's this weekend for Xmas Eve meeting of the regular LUG

Sounds good.

Philz Coffee in West Berkeley https://www.yelp.com/biz/philz-coffee-berkeley-12 might be relatively uncrowded next Sunday, given the Xmas Holiday itself as well as the possibility of many people/students being away.

Best,

-A

[tom r lopes]

The Chromebooks are not mine.  Well they are for anyone that wants one.  

There are like 50+ at Sudoroom right now.  Peter got them from the Fremont school 

district as they were about to be e-wasted.  

The Fixit-Sudoroom project is to make these usable even though the ChromeOS on 

them is EOL.  

Specs: These are Intel cpu with 4GB ram but only 16GB storage (EMMC)  

It is the 16GB that causes issue.  After installing software and updating the storage is 

full.  Some people just boot off USB or SDcard.  

Looking for a distro that lives happily in 16GB and is Linux-noobie friendly.  

I am well aware of the Tuesday hack night.  I am there most every week.  

Thomas