[CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

Wed May 15 10:55:44 UTC 2013
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook,
> largely for use while travelling.
> But I'd like to use it at home linked to my CentOS-6.4 server,
> rather than to the cloud.
> I'm wondering if this is practicable?
> I use LaTeX quite a lot,
> and I don't know if I could (a) download LaTeX to the Chromebook,
> (b) run LaTeX on the cloud, 
> or (c) run LaTeX on my server from the Chromebook.
> Has anyone experience of doing this sort of thing?


I have installed openSUSE 12.3 on an ARM Samsung Chromebook [openSUSE
makes an install image for the Chromebook(s)].  It is a straight-forward
process and so far works without any major issues.

Haven't tried CentOS, I'm not aware of ARM CentOS system images.