From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 15:08:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FF2572 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:08:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71763F2B for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r15EjDkQ024443 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:45:14 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:45:13 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130112 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:08:15 -0000 [I'm not sure whether this would be better on -hackers@ or -hardware@ but -questions@ seems like a good place to start.] Is anyone considering getting FBSD to run on the Acer C7 Chromebook? The pros are that it's a cheap, small and relatively lightweight 64 bit Intel portable using integrated Intel graphics. The cons are that it's a Chromebook, so has a completely non-standard BIOS and boot sequence. However, Ubuntu has been hacked to boot on it (Google for "ChrUbuntu") so it's not totally locked down. This would make a very useful little system, but the programming needed is beyond my skill set I'm afraid.