I haven't been following him lately, but this is one of the ChromeOS developers, talking about getting Ubuntu on the Samsung Chromebook: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ He has newer posts linking to others with success as well. So you CAN boot Ubuntu. (I was pondering one, and throwing in an SDHC/SDXC card with Ubuntu on it, but keeping the 'Chrome' install on the internal SSD; as a lightweight portable machine but Woot put a Thinkpad X130e up for $300 just before Christmas...) On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Adam Nave wrote: > >> Some details on the internal chrome shell: >> >> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device >> >> That particular samsung chromebook has a reputation for running Ubuntu >> with good benchmarks, though I didn't immediately find good instructions on >> how to make it happen, and I don't know if the full range of drivers are >> available. Also note that it uses an ARM processor, not x86. > > > Thanks for the tips! That's a good point about the ARM processor. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list