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Edward A. Dauer

Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

Anyone know if Elecraft utilities can be made to run on a Chrome OS? The reviews I have been reading about the Google Pixelbook make it seem attractive.

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W2xj

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

Pretty much everything works with Chrome.

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Gwen Patton

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

Don't confuse Chrome OS with the Chrome browser. They're very different
things.

The latest Pixelbooks should be able to run Android apps natively, but if
you need to, you can use one of the tools like Crouton to enable running
Linux. I do that with my older Chromebook.

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> Pretty much everything works with Chrome.
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> > On Nov 30, 2018, at 17:58, Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> > Anyone know if Elecraft utilities can be made to run on a Chrome OS?
> The reviews I have been reading about the Google Pixelbook make it seem
> attractive.
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Neil Zampella

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

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A Chromebook will not run the utilities. I'm fairly sure Chromebooks
run on a version of Linux, but you're limiting yourself to a lot of
'cloud based' stuff.

Look at a AMD powered laptop, a bit cheaper than an Intel, but you often
get more bang for the buck.

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Leroy Buller

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

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No, I would not think that a chrome book would work. I would suggest that
you look on Craigs List for a laptop. My buddy just got a deal on an I7
with 7Pro for 100 dollars. There are very inexpensive computer systems out
there. Caveate Emptor....buyer beware.

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> Anyone know if Elecraft utilities can be made to run on a Chrome OS? The
> reviews I have been reading about the Google Pixelbook make it seem
> attractive.
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> Ted, KN1CBR
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Jim Brown-10

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

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On 12/1/2018 5:28 PM, Neil Zampella wrote:
> Look at a AMD powered laptop, a bit cheaper than an Intel, but you
> often get more bang for the buck.

I've had pretty good luck buying refurb Thinkpads, and I've never paid
more than about $500. I recently bought myself an X230 (super compact,
lightweight for backpacking to activate a rare grid on 6M) for about
$250, and a T430 for the XYL to use with a computerized loom for $500.
Both were very nicely equipped and had Win7-64 installed. I bought from
New Egg. Lenovo also has some pretty good special deals on their website
of new units.

I've used nothing but Thinkpads since about 1998.

73,

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Rob Campbell

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

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It is now possible to run Linux apps on many newer Chromebooks. I do not
have one, so I have not tested that yet, but it is making me consider a
Chromebook now.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3314739/chrome-os/how-to-use-linux-apps-on-chrome-os.html

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Gwen Patton

Re: Chrome OS and Elecraft Utilities

If you use the Crouton tool, you can load a separate FULL version of Linux
onto a Chromebook. You will then have the option of using the Chromebook in
ChromeOS mode, in which you will "have to deal with "a lot of 'cloud based'
stuff" OR you can do the secret Chromebook handshake and use a full version
of Linux. The default is Ubuntu. The issues with this are few but are
significant: This does not, of course, affect your available RAM or
storage space except that you'll have less of each, because you just put
Linux on it. The other is that it's an ARM version of Linux, and anything
relying on an Intel processor, or a specific chipset will fall over holding
its throat making gurgling noises, then expire dramatically.

But using Crouton it IS a true version of Linux. You CAN use a "lite"
version to save space, but I didn't and it pretty much runs anything you
can compile for the ARM processor. A lot of utilities these days that
support Linux have builds for the ARM branch, so this is less of a problem
than you might think.

The Pixelbook ability to run some Linux programs is different, but may have
some things in common with it. I don't know, I don't have a Pixelbook, I
have a Chromebook I installed Ubuntu on using Crouton.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook/
https://gist.github.com/garthvh/07805317032ce7d55887
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

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Gwen NG3P

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> It is now possible to run Linux apps on many newer Chromebooks. I do not
> have one, so I have not tested that yet, but it is making me consider a
> Chromebook now.
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> https://www.computerworld.com/article/3314739/chrome-os/how-to-use-linux-apps-on-chrome-os.html
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> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:59 PM Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> > Anyone know if Elecraft utilities can be made to run on a Chrome OS? The
> > reviews I have been reading about the Google Pixelbook make it seem
> > attractive.
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> > Ted, KN1CBR
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