GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks

Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by ff_ on Saturday March 26, 2016 @08:47AM (#11365461)

I had an Acer C720 for one year in 2014-2015, and ran elementaryOS on it. It was my primary dev machine.

Resources were pretty limited (dual core Celeron, 2Gb RAM, 32Gb SSD) but it ran fine for most of the things (like normal browsing, js and Python development).

Things you CAN'T do on it:

  - Java. Just don't even think about it.
  - the former point implies all the Java IDEs (Eclipse, Intellij)
  - Android, because of disk space and everything else.
  - Games.

Why I loved it:

  - really small and light
  - AMAZING battery life
  - having so little disk space made me pay attention to my usage of it, make backups, and move on a server things I didn't really need.

However I upgraded to a Dell XPS 13 since then, life is much much better now :)

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Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by yathern on Saturday March 26, 2016 @10:08AM (#11365674)

I have an Acer c720 too and I run Java on it. Minecraft, believe it or not runs at 40fps. But I had to find the proprietary drivers.

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Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by AdmiralAsshat on Saturday March 26, 2016 @10:32AM (#11365740)

Are you still running elementaryOS on the XPS? If so, how well does it work?

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Re:GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks by ff_ on Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:49PM (#11366606)

It works really well - I'm basically in love with Pantheon (which IMHO it's much better than GNOME), and I can't recall encountering any bug in the last year.

However, since it's based on Ubuntu 14.04 the kernel and the software versions are a bit old.

In the next months I will switch to Arch or Nix or Void (to have more recent versions) and I may try to port Pantheon on them.

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