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Developer Gets OpenSUSE Running On $249 Google Chromebook

Posted by timothy on from the eye-opener dept.

sfcrazy writes "Andrew Wafaa, an ARM developer who is responsible for porting openSUSE to ARM, just got his hands on the Chromebook, and he managed to run openSUSE on it." Hopefully that means other distros can be soon ported to the Chromebook as well.

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  1. News??? by Jmc23 · · Score: 4, Funny
    All this guy did was follow somebody elses directions.

    Keep those quality stories coming Timothy.

    --
    Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
    1. Re:News??? by WankersRevenge · · Score: 4, Funny

      News? Of course this is news. Someone out there actually RTFM. Personally, I'm surprised this isn't the story of the decade.

  2. Ran it on my $189 eeePc 3 years ago by Andy+Prough · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cold-start to reading Slashdot in 12 seconds flat with KDE Plasma Netbook. Because I could, that's why.

  3. Re:Over 10 mins and no first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Biden, is that you?

  4. Re:Why haven't OEMs caught on? by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because no one but nerds actually want a Chromebopk.

    I'd like any kind of bopk