Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop
by moonchrome on Saturday October 05, 2013 @01:50PM
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I haven't done it in a while but I did run virtualBox on a linux host and WinXP guest back on my old EEE PC 1000 - 1GB netbook with 1GB ram and Atom CPU.
I mean we aren't talking about creating a functional desktop here, all they need is a image that boots runs a text editor and has all the ruby packages pre installed - you don't even run heavy weight IDE like eclipse - this should easily be doable with ~512MB ram image.
But I agree and Ubuntu might not be the best choice of distro for this, especially with that unity monster.
I mean we aren't talking about creating a functional desktop here, all they need is a image that boots runs a text editor and has all the ruby packages pre installed - you don't even run heavy weight IDE like eclipse - this should easily be doable with ~512MB ram image.
But I agree and Ubuntu might not be the best choice of distro for this, especially with that unity monster.