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$250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast

Posted by timothy on from the choices-getting-nicer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Google Samsung Chromebook was already interesting for its competitive $250 price-tag and that it can be loaded with Linux distributions beyond Chrome OS, but it turns out that its performance is particularly good, too. When loaded with Ubuntu Linux, the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual ARM SoC on the Chrome notebook had outperformed a 1.8GHz Intel Atom, a quad-core Calxeda ARM server, and a TI OMAP4 PandaBoard."

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  1. Re:250$ buys you a lot of netbook... by preflex · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hogwash.

    Chromium and VLC have been working just fine on Ubuntu ARM for years (as well as Ubuntu PPC). No need for virtualized processor. They're compiled for ARM. Dropbox and Jungledisk should also compile just fine if the source is available. That's the beauty of free software.

    There's a source tarball for Dropbox here.

    Jungledisk (never heard of it before) appears to be propretary, so fsck 'em.