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Re:Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS by kostya-kow on Sunday February 10, 2013 @06:26AM (#5196124)
Is there a way to run a distro other than Ubuntu (Fedora, Arch)?

I am planning to buy the x86 version, so it seems like it should be possible to install any distro on it. Is Crouton/ Chrubuntu for ARM version?

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Re:Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Chrome OS by jstanley on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:37AM (#5196362)
I can't speak for fedora (possibly febootstrap?) but it is already easy to install Arch in a chroot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archbootstrap

If ChromeOS doesn't provide you enough tools to run archbootstrap, you can run archbootstrap on a separate machine with the chrome disk attached and then put the disk in the ChromeOS laptop. A bit of hassle but perfectly doable.

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