Re: [9fans] Chrome and 9

[Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com>]

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I choose - "Waste of time"

Too many hardware versions (
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices
)
And, how about vendor-locks (Google :) )?

2014-12-08 2:59 GMT+03:00 da Tyga <cyberfonic@gmail.com>:

> I think that Plan9Port using the underlying Linux OS might be a better
> choice.  I have also been thinking about cross-compiling from a Plan9
> install (such as that on Raspberry Pi) to Samsung ARM based ChromeBook.
>
> Getting Plan9 to work with fastboot and implementing device drivers for
> the various ChromeBooks might be a lot of work.  Don't know enough to
> justify my assumptions though.
>
> On 8 December 2014 at 06:35, Roswell Grey <orangecalx01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's no question that the Chromebook makes a wonderful candidate to
>> integrate features of 9 into. The thing was practically BUILT for
>> distributed computing, what with app servers and cloud integration tightly
>> integrated into the hardware. What I was thinking was creating a chrome
>> extension for 9P and the distributed file system, so that there'd be an
>> easy way to connect 9 machines and maybe even create a chrome 9 grid for
>> super processing. What would be your opinion on doing such a thing?
>> Practical? Waste of time? Wanna help?
>>
>
>


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Жилкин Сергей
With best regards
Zhilkin Sergey

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