<zooko-web>
Hi folks! Anybody can recommend what flavor of linux to install on my Samsung Chromebook 2 Exynos 5800?
<Wizzup>
I personally use Gentoo
<zooko-web>
Arch is appealing because it has exactly what I need: a recipe saying ¨Do the following 15 steps in order and you'll have a booting system¨.
<Wizzup>
I'd say that if you want something that likely works with little effort, perhaps go for arch. I use Gentoo because I like to know what kind of drivers I need, and it easily gives me the flexibility to try out new drives. and for arm there are sometimes no binary packages and then gentoo makes more sense
<Wizzup>
cool. I'll let you search a bit
<zooko-web>
Oops, my 6-year-old wants some attention from me. Back in a bit. :-)
<zooko-web>
Wizzup: well, I'm not very comfortable switching distros at this point.
<zooko-web>
I have a lot invested in understanding the Ubuntu tools and development process and people and stuff.
<zooko-web>
Be back in a few minutes probably...
<Wizzup>
the only possibly 'hard' parts wrt ubuntu would be: get a kernel with enough options enabled, and getting 3d accel to work for unity (assuming ubuntu still wants that)
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<zooko-web>
I know how to run ubuntu without hw-accelerated 3d.
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<zooko-web>
Wizzup: so what instructions do you think I should start with if my ultimate goal is to boot Ubuntu? Maybe http://www.galexander.org/chromebook/ ?
<Tenkawa>
Wizzup: javier__: that kernel is working great. Thanks again
<Wizzup>
zooko-web: exynos-defconfig or multiv7_defconfig (I think it is written that way) for v4.4 should be ok to start with for a kernel. I have little clue about the way people install ubuntu. I guess you'd need to do something like debootstrap, similar to debian
<Wizzup>
at this point I'm hoping for some others to share what they use, possibly ubuntu
<Tenkawa>
I use core debian... would that setup help?
<zooko-web>
Wizzup: what's the tradeoff between Chrome kernel or mainline linux for this machine?
<Tenkawa>
i'm still using a xe303c12 cb1
<Wizzup>
zooko-web: audio doesn't work on mainline. no clue about video decode accel and 3d. everything else works better than chrome kernel imho
<zooko-web>
Tenkawa: did you run debootstrap, um, from chromeos?
<zooko-web>
Wizzup: cool, thanks.
<Tenkawa>
no... another debian box
<Wizzup>
zooko-web: I'd recommend going for signing the mainline u-boot, and using that to load unsigned kernels. I don't like the whole kernel signing process
<zooko-web>
Wizzup: ugh, that whole signing stuff just confuses me. What is even the point. ☹
<zooko-web>
What did you find most interesting at FOSDEM?
<Wizzup>
For mainline kernel, it's pretty trivial -- get latest linux tarball, make exynos_defconfig (or multiv7_defconfig or so) and build it
<Wizzup>
FOSDEM for me is meeting many of the awesome people working in/on FOSS projects. Talk-wise, difficult to pick just one. I liked a few talks in the microkernel dev room :-)