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Swap your laptop for a chromebook + ec2

by obilgic 14y ago

habosa 14y ago
That's my plan. Currently imitating that with Asus Transfomer and Raspberry Pi.
- roma1n 14y ago
  Same here, with a Nexus 10 and an Edis VPS.
HorizonXP 14y ago
I'm honestly seriously considering this. I'm still trying to figure out if Ubuntu on the Chrome book is stable enough for SSH, VNC, X, and web work. Moreover, something I just thought of now is that I do a lot of mobile app development. Wondering if I can run the debugger remotely and "export" my local USB over SSH and have it run that way. That would be pretty cool...
- HorizonXP 14y ago
  Looks like I answered my own question: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-a-usb-over-ip-server-and-client-with-debian-lenny http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-a-usb-over-ip-server... Just ordered my Chromebook from Amazon. Now to wait 8 weeks for it. :-(
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  I've been running Ubuntu on the ARM Chromebook for over a month now and it works great. I use it mostly for doing Go programming. I mostly do local development with it. If you're doing everything remotely you could probably just stick to ChromeOS (it has ssh, you can also use Chrome Remote Desktop or Guacamole http://guac-dev.org/ http://guac-dev.org/) and not bother with Ubuntu.
simon_weber 14y ago
I've been pleasantly surprised by how well my chromebook works as a dev machine, and I'd even go as far as to recommend it. A few tips and comments to those considering it: You'll want the secure shell and chrome remote desktop extensions. Note that there's also a hidden secure shell beta channel [0]. If you have vpn requirements, be sure to check for compatibility first: though openvpn and l2tp are supported, I wasn't able to get either working. Vpn fixes are supposedly in the works [1]. Install ubuntu onto an sd card and dual boot is possible (even on arm) [2]. I haven't needed to do this, though. Other exciting - but currently abandoned - possibilities: vim and mosh as chrome extensions [3] [4]. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/f8UoLP6mBoE/yVzo7GCeG5gJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/f8U... [1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=35515 http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=35515 [2] https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJ... [3] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/source/browse/trunk/nacl/googleclient/native_client/tests/vim/?r=319 http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/source/browse/trunk/na... [4] https://github.com/davidben/mosh-chrome https://github.com/davidben/mosh-chrome

Swap your laptop for a chromebook + ec2

by obilgic 14y ago

Swap your laptop for a chromebook + ec2

habosa 14y ago

That's my plan. Currently imitating that with Asus Transfomer and Raspberry Pi.

roma1n 14y ago
Same here, with a Nexus 10 and an Edis VPS.

HorizonXP 14y ago

I'm honestly seriously considering this. I'm still trying to figure out if Ubuntu on the Chrome book is stable enough for SSH, VNC, X, and web work. Moreover, something I just thought of now is that I do a lot of mobile app development. Wondering if I can run the debugger remotely and "export" my local USB over SSH and have it run that way. That would be pretty cool...

HorizonXP 14y ago
Looks like I answered my own question: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-a-usb-over-ip-server-and-client-with-debian-lenny http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-a-usb-over-ip-server... Just ordered my Chromebook from Amazon. Now to wait 8 weeks for it. :-(
georgemcbay 14y ago
I've been running Ubuntu on the ARM Chromebook for over a month now and it works great. I use it mostly for doing Go programming. I mostly do local development with it. If you're doing everything remotely you could probably just stick to ChromeOS (it has ssh, you can also use Chrome Remote Desktop or Guacamole http://guac-dev.org/ http://guac-dev.org/) and not bother with Ubuntu.

simon_weber 14y ago

I've been pleasantly surprised by how well my chromebook works as a dev machine, and I'd even go as far as to recommend it. A few tips and comments to those considering it: You'll want the secure shell and chrome remote desktop extensions. Note that there's also a hidden secure shell beta channel [0]. If you have vpn requirements, be sure to check for compatibility first: though openvpn and l2tp are supported, I wasn't able to get either working. Vpn fixes are supposedly in the works [1]. Install ubuntu onto an sd card and dual boot is possible (even on arm) [2]. I haven't needed to do this, though. Other exciting - but currently abandoned - possibilities: vim and mosh as chrome extensions [3] [4]. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/f8UoLP6mBoE/yVzo7GCeG5gJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/f8U... [1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=35515 http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=35515 [2] https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJ... [3] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/source/browse/trunk/nacl/googleclient/native_client/tests/vim/?r=319 http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/source/browse/trunk/na... [4] https://github.com/davidben/mosh-chrome https://github.com/davidben/mosh-chrome