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Re:Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a de... by gregulrajani on Sunday May 12, 2013 @10:57AM (#5694469)
I have a chroot'ed Samsung Intel Chromebook that makes an OK development machine for small projects using Eclipse/Java/H2/Jetty. If I fully rooted it the extra ram would make the machine a bit more useful.

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/

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Re:Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a de... by seabrookmx on Sunday May 12, 2013 @09:30PM (#5696715)
crouton runs surprisingly well. I've noticed a few hiccups though - I still can't get my trackpad to work smoothly on my original Series 5.
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