Is Slackware workable on a Chromebook?

[Tuxedo]

Has anyone succesfully installed Slackware instead of google's cloud based
distro on a Chromebook with added local storage? If so, which specific
Chromebook model?

Tuxedo

[Michael Black]

But why? I thought the whole idea of a Chromebook was a very minimal
laptop, because everything that could was being done "in the cloud".

If you want a real Linux, you might as well get a laptop that offers
enough resources (like a decent hard drive). Let's not forget that when
netbooks came along in 2009 or so, they had solid state drives, and
relatively small ones at that, and soon the market pushed those out, so
they suddenly had 160gig hard drives and Windows, and they were still kind
of truncated since the CPUs were limited

Michael

[Ottavio Caruso]

On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:49:55 UTC+1, Tuxedo wrote:
> Has anyone succesfully installed Slackware instead of google's cloud based
>
> distro on a Chromebook with added local storage? If so, which specific
>
> Chromebook model?
>

Yes, there is a thread on LQ about Slackware on the Acer Chromebook. I
did install Slackware-ARM on the Samsung Chromebook last year, please
check on the Armedslack mailing list.

And Google is always your friend (and the NSA's).

--
Ottavio

[Tuxedo]

Michael Black wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Tuxedo wrote:
>
> > Has anyone succesfully installed Slackware instead of google's cloud
> > based distro on a Chromebook with added local storage? If so, which
> > specific Chromebook model?
> >
> > Tuxedo
> >
> But why? I thought the whole idea of a Chromebook was a very minimal
> laptop, because everything that could was being done "in the cloud".

I simply need a lightweight quality hardware to use in odd locations where
internet connectivity is either slow or non-existent and so I'm considering
maybe the Samsung XE303C12 Chromebook fitting for the task. I need the
system to work with Slackware. I don't care for Google's Linux distro,
having tested it once, and I certainly don't want to be stuck in a cloud.
However, the model in question comes with a 16GB local storage. I guess
it's a standard SD card that can easily be replaced with a higher capacity
storage card. I need about 80GB, if that exists on the type of card used.

Tuxedo

[Tuxedo]

Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:49:55 UTC+1, Tuxedo wrote:
> > Has anyone succesfully installed Slackware instead of google's cloud
> > based
> >
> > distro on a Chromebook with added local storage? If so, which specific
> >
> > Chromebook model?
> >
>
> Yes, there is a thread on LQ about Slackware on the Acer Chromebook. I
> did install Slackware-ARM on the Samsung Chromebook last year, please
> check on the Armedslack mailing list.

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out. Which exact Samsung Chromebook
model did you install Slackware on and with which version Slackware?

> And Google is always your friend (and the NSA's).

I'm not sure if either can be considered true friends.

Tuxedo

[Peter Chant]

On 09/04/2013 04:15 AM, Michael Black wrote:

> If you want a real Linux, you might as well get a laptop that offers
> enough resources (like a decent hard drive). Let's not forget that when
> netbooks came along in 2009 or so, they had solid state drives, and
> relatively small ones at that, and soon the market pushed those out, so
> they suddenly had 160gig hard drives and Windows, and they were still
> kind of truncated since the CPUs were limited

Within the limitations I find my eee invaluable. Likely lower spec than
a modern chromebook still a good piece of kit. Great with Slack on it.

Pete

[Tuxedo]

Peter Chant wrote:

[...]

> Within the limitations I find my eee invaluable. Likely lower spec than
> a modern chromebook still a good piece of kit. Great with Slack on it.

I remember being curious about Eee when it first came out but decided
against it at the time, as I felt both screen and keyboard is a bit too
small to do real work with.

Can anyone recommend other netbooks or small notebooks where Slackware
works well?

If so, please post your note/netbook experience, opinions and comments
below, if possible including the precise hardware model and Slackware
version installed.

It need not be the newest gadgetery but it should at least use a solid
state drive for local storage. From now on I'm not buying any hardware
which doesn't support Linux Slackware :-)

Tuxedo

[Joost Kremers]

Tuxedo wrote:
> Can anyone recommend other netbooks or small notebooks where Slackware
> works well?
>
> If so, please post your note/netbook experience, opinions and comments
> below, if possible including the precise hardware model and Slackware
> version installed.

I used to have one of the original EeePCs with Slackware installed,
which ran fine. Right now, I have a newer (but already a few years old)
EeePC, 1005p, with a *cough*Ubuntu*cough* derivative on it (Ubuntu
itself, or more specifically, Unity, is too slow IME). It should run
Slack without problems, but I haven't tried.

The keyboard of the original EeePC was so small that I had trouble
typing on it, though it was doable with some effort. The newer model has
a somewhat larger keyboard and I have no trouble typing on it.

According to Wikipedia, the latest EeePC line is the 1015 series, some
models of which run Ubuntu. If it can run Ubuntu, it should be able to
run Slackware (probably faster, too).


--
Joost Kremers joostk...@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)

[Edwin Johnson]

On 2013-09-05, Tuxedo <tux...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> Peter Chant wrote:
>
> [...]

> Can anyone recommend other netbooks or small notebooks where Slackware
> works well?

No, but I also have an ASUS Eee 1015PE (Seashell) and running Slackware 3.3
on it with very good results. Nice little computer. Does everything I need.
Use mine mostly for travel but can do anything the larger computers do.

...Edwin
____________________________________________________________
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, there you long to
return."-da Vinci http://bellsouthpwp2.net/e/d/edwinljohnson

[John K. Herreshoff]

Slack 14.0 32 bits works fine on my dell inspiron mini 1018.... Right out
of the box in fact. It's a bit slow to load something like firefox (a
second or two), but if you want something small, light, and with decent
battery life (8 hours they claim, and I've seen it last nearly that long),
this little guy will do it for you. What do you want to do with it?

I upgraded this to 2 gigs of ram and put a SSD in it. It's bullet proof,
more or less.

John.

--
Using the Cubic at home

[jeff g.]

except for the SSD...

[John K. Herreshoff]

Depends on the meaning. In my case: Bullet Proof (more or less) against
dropping. My Dell did a crash landing onto a concrete floor and survived...
I'd rather not try that with a spinning disk / moving head.

By the by: I've been running SSD here in this box for over three years
(maybe approaching four). No problems. Data is kept in a raid WD Worldbook
with spinning heads :-)

Belts and suspenders here.

[John K. Herreshoff]

Errr... Spinning disks. Just my head spins ;-)

J.

[wep...@gmail.com]

I've installed slackware successfully on my C7... and the machine kick ass.


Here is my procedure...
http://www.bloggingdabullshit.com/2013/08/slackware-on-acer-c7-chromebook.html


I haven't update the post, however I ended creating a "minimal" command line install that boots on the USB...

repartitioned my hdd and did the "installpkg --root /dev/sda7 */*.t?z" to make a clean install on the chromebook hard drive.

[Mach2]

Right on!!

--
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A member of the Linux Foundation
http://www.linuxfoundation.org

[greymausg]

On 2013-12-03, Mach2 <ma...@hushmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/3/13, 9:57 AM, wep...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I've installed slackware successfully on my C7... and the machine kick ass.
>>
>>
>> Here is my procedure...
>> http://www.bloggingdabullshit.com/2013/08/slackware-on-acer-c7-chromebook.html
>>
>>
>> I haven't update the post, however I ended creating a "minimal" command line install that boots on the USB...
>>
>> repartitioned my hdd and did the "installpkg --root /dev/sda7 */*.t?z" to make a clean install on the chromebook hard drive.
>>
> Right on!!
>

Why?.. Chromebook is great for people non-interested in computers.
I installed some version of Linux on a Chromebook last year, used it
for a week, then resurrected it as Chromebook and gave it to my sister.
Suits her fine.

Patient: "Doctor, when I do this, then do that", twisting arms and legs,
"I get a stabbing pain".
Doctor: "Then don't do that"


--
. Maus
.
...

[Mach2]

On 12/4/13, 8:55 AM, greymausg wrote:
> On 2013-12-03, Mach2 <ma...@hushmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/3/13, 9:57 AM, wep...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I've installed slackware successfully on my C7... and the machine kick ass.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is my procedure...
>>> http://www.bloggingdabullshit.com/2013/08/slackware-on-acer-c7-chromebook.html
>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't update the post, however I ended creating a "minimal" command line install that boots on the USB...
>>>
>>> repartitioned my hdd and did the "installpkg --root /dev/sda7 */*.t?z" to make a clean install on the chromebook hard drive.
>>>
>> Right on!!
>>
>
> Why?.. Chromebook is great for people non-interested in computers.

No one designed mountains to be climbed, yet we do it all the time.

It's the nature of the hacker. To take something and push its use beyond
what it was designed for. Just to explore and see what else it can do.
And just because we are people and people like to explore.

[rkfb]

I have to ask ... 3.3?


regards,
--
Robert

[Edwin Johnson]

On 2014-01-12, rkfb <rk...@openbox.slacknet> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Edwin Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 2013-09-05, Tuxedo <tux...@mailinator.com> wrote:
>>> Peter Chant wrote:
>>> Can anyone recommend other netbooks or small notebooks where Slackware
>>> works well?
>>
>> No, but I also have an ASUS Eee 1015PE (Seashell) and running Slackware 3.3
>> on it with very good results. Nice little computer. Does everything I need.
>

> I have to ask ... 3.3?

Yes, sorry about that. Seems my mind was working but didn't hit the last 7
or didn't notice it didn't print, so Slackware 3.37. That's on the ASUS
1015PE.

The server computer and large laptop both use Slackware 3.1.

...Edwin
____________________________________________________________
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, there you long to

return."-da Vinci http://www.kd5zlb.org

[Peter Chant]

On 01/12/2014 03:53 PM, Edwin Johnson wrote:

> Yes, sorry about that. Seems my mind was working but didn't hit the last 7
> or didn't notice it didn't print, so Slackware 3.37. That's on the ASUS
> 1015PE.
>
> The server computer and large laptop both use Slackware 3.1.

You are joking right? Don't think that would even support USB and I
doubt that remotely recent versions of any applications would run.

Pete

[Henrik Carlqvist]

Slackware 3.1 is from 1996, there never was any Slackware 3.37.

My guess is that he really means Slackware 13.1 from 2010 and 13.37 from
2011.

I still have a server running Slackware 3.1, but I have upgraded the
kernel to 2.0.30. That machine is a 486:
-8<-------------------------
hydran:~> gcc --version
2.7.2
hydran:~> uname -a
Linux hydran 2.0.30 #9 Tue Oct 6 21:10:10 MET DST 1998 i486
hydran:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 486
model : DX/2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 5
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme
bogomips : 33.18
hydran:~>
-8<-------------------------

regards Henrik
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[Edwin Johnson]

On 2014-01-13, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.C...@deadspam.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:14:36 +0000, Peter Chant wrote:
>
>> On 01/12/2014 03:53 PM, Edwin Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, sorry about that. Seems my mind was working but didn't hit the
>>> last 7 or didn't notice it didn't print, so Slackware 3.37. That's on
>>> the ASUS 1015PE.
>>>
>>> The server computer and large laptop both use Slackware 3.1.

> Slackware 3.1 is from 1996, there never was any Slackware 3.37.
>
> My guess is that he really means Slackware 13.1 from 2010 and 13.37 from
> 2011.
>
> I still have a server running Slackware 3.1, but I have upgraded the
> kernel to 2.0.30. That machine is a 486:

Yes, you are all right. Guess that time my 'mind' wasn't in gear, 13.1
(server and large laptop) and 13.37 (ASUS 1015PE). ha ha

Incidentally, looking at the old CDs, it seems the earliest I find is a
Slackware 4.0 backup (at least that's what it says on my label), but bet the
sources are on diskettes somewhere. Actually, still have a 3.5 drive in the
server, even though the motherboard has been upgraded to 2.8g Pentium4.