From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 01:39:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6EB2EB for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 01:39:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenzi.sergio@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gh0-f178.google.com (mail-gh0-f178.google.com [209.85.160.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A287C37E for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 01:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gh0-f178.google.com with SMTP id g24so253860ghb.23 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:39:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references :disposition-notification-to:content-type:date:message-id :mime-version:x-mailer; bh=efjRidQ4cJXq8FZ/dkYJq0ZOtAZBEid+pRt+hH9ipt8=; b=OMYhZOR+dQl+ioWxRrc4XH7Yyv58Fmhpw/pQ9Y/Vdb0hdzLAxiXziRTBLYMxZm1q0z Xew+K8EhrZL/WPhmcGLDgFsv4Q1MyieHKZHVMa5fxDEhQGoV4HhuXDF6APovQkHN/qun QhJBfHXVfNpOpVNPc2w5oywbhVN37c0FiG86xXF8EfSoC2wZFg/IiKyclYRMXLDgLnuM eUP+lF6CV9ubRNxTy2Huvde2ZYbNcmemfzxhmbuzOqVwyLX7UCsr88BHYahM+OuTfHD5 s3JzkQ+hWn35EnPUnGKtSLGYUvFvVxojVXT802iS+DUTMp7RTF9kvbj1ofILbKWBoebA ig5w== X-Received: by 10.236.75.229 with SMTP id z65mr33258819yhd.16.1360114747779; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.6.230] ([189.123.200.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k24sm38428339yhd.5.2013.02.05.17.39.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:39:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook? From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi To: Arthur Chance In-Reply-To: <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org> References: <51111AF9.2090006@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:39:03 -0200 Message-ID: <1360114743.80620.38.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD-Questions 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: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:39:15 -0000 Em Ter, 2013-02-05 às 14:45 +0000, Arthur Chance escreveu: > [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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" A long time ago I swear NEVER ever buy ACER product, the bios is no standard, and they do not care about the clients. I bought sevral notebooks very cheap that are built around the AMD vision, Lenovo 845 here costs about US$400 payed in 10 parts of US$40...