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Re:$149 Chromebooks by ntakasaki on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:23PM (#9300000)
Just because you can replace an OS does not mean it's open. It's about the ecosystem too. How much percentage of Chromebooks could be running Crouton or Linux? I wager less than 2%.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by yohui on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:38PM (#9300080)
And how many Windows users installed Linux? If it's easier to run Linux or use Crouton on a Chromebook, then that's an argument against the view that they're less open than Windows or iOS.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by EddieRingle on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @08:47PM (#9300883)
You're wrong. 100% of Chromebooks are running Linux. If you don't want to use Crouton you can bootstrap Linuxbrew and have access to pretty much any program you'd have on any other Linux distribution.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by anonbanker on Sunday April 05, 2015 @07:42PM (#9325721)
not just Linux, but Gentoo Linux. the one everyone used to make fun of[1] before Google made it acceptable, and the only one not going the systemd route.

1. http://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/

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