Posted on 11/21/2012 12:47:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google recently launched the Samsung Chromebook that for $249 USD features an 11-inch display, a 16GB SSD, a promise of 6.5-hour battery life, and is backed by a Samsung Exynos 5 SoC. The Samsung Exynos 5 packs a 1.7GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with ARM Mali-T604 graphics. With using this new ARM Cortex-A15 chip plus the Samsung Chromebook not being locked down so it can be loaded up with a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or openSUSE, it was a must-buy for carrying out some interesting Cortex-A15 Linux benchmarks. The Exynos 5 Dual in this affordable laptop packs an impressive performance punch.
I'm still in the process of setting up Ubuntu on the Samsung Chromebook for delivering Linux ARM Cortex A15 performance benchmarks, but already someone beat me to using the Phoronix Test Suite for carrying out benchmarks of the ARM A15. The results were shared via OpenBenchmarking.org.
These results are quite interesting as the independent user benchmarking the Samsung Chromebook compared it to the result file used for the previous tests of the Calxeda quad-core 1.1GHz and 1.4GHz Highbank server nodes, a TI OMAP4460 dual-core 1.2GHz PandaBoard ES, and an Intel Atom D525 x86_64 CPU running at 1.8GHz. The Chromebook was loaded with an early development snapshot of Ubuntu 13.04 with a Linux 3.4 kernel for Exynos 5 SoC.
(Excerpt) Read more at phoronix.com ...
Yes BUT!!!
Let's be clear to many of our friends here that Each and Every program must be recompiled by SOMEONE and checked out for the very different instruction set that comes with the ARM architecture....if they expect to run it on THIS DEVICE with OUT going to the CLOUD for running the application....
This NEW WORLD is running well ahead of many on the Free Republic forum.
That is all I am saying....
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PHORONIX is a forum aimed at LINUX DEVELOPERS and LINUX enthusiasts....
Firefox is available for Ubuntu, and is included with some releases. Yes, release 13.0 is a beta or pre beta release, but should go stable release before long.
For the non-geek types (including me) a load and go version for this laptop isn’t quite ready yet. It is a good value for the money, and at the Fry’s price, I could stand playing with it as is till the stable Ubuntu release is available.
I am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 with Firefox on a 8 year old laptop. Upgraded to 12.03 and my video card wasn’t well supported, so redid the 11.10, GTG now.
Without forcing one thru a Cloud server....if I can express it that way.
I love Ubuntu and have been running it on a HP netbook a bit long in the tooth. This looks like a great upgrade.
To all those unfamiliar with Linux; it is a great alternative to wondoze, many comparable (and free) apps. It is much more friendly than it used to be.
Linux is a play on Unix....that is a simple minded description of it.
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If you are interested and have some time....I did a quick google and found this....it might be useful:
What is Linux and why is it so popular?
I have not looked at the link however.
Just installed the new Linux mint 14 today with Cinnabon or Cinnamon....trying to figure out how to get the font size increased so I can read the major menus....the old eyes do do well squinting.
Fry’s doesn’t make you stand in line. You go online tomorrow after 9am, order the item, and then pick it up at the store on Friday. Much more civilized, although it remains to be seen if people will be able to get the good deals or if the web site will be fry’d.
RE: Wine. Codeweavers had another free CrossOver giveaway a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t run Wine proper in 5 years or so.
I use ubuntu for web surfing and blogging, and it is far superiour to windows IMHO. Almost no one makes malware or virus code for linux variations.
I don't trust those Obama supporting Rat ********s as far as I can throw them.
If I could strip it and go I am in....
I know nothing about Lenovo laptops.
I recently bought a Lenovo portable with the new AMD Trinity microprocessor and Windows 7 as operating system.
But i have done almost nothing with it....Benghazi and the election intervened.
It seems well built...
Was reading on the web that Lenovo has ambitions of taking on Dell in the Global business arena.
Don't know how that is working out.
Not sure exactly what you ARE saying here.
If it’s Ubuntu - you should be able to run LibreOffice which can be used to operate on most MS Office docs, spreadsheets, power-point formats.
The fact that it runs on an ARM processor isn’t relevant when you have the source code!
Now you can discuss just how well you think LibreOffice compares to MSOffice, which would be a fair discussion, but the software does work on an ARM processor too.
IIRC, Lenovo was a Chinese company that bought the IBM PC division for both the technology and market access.
One of the articles ShadowAce has pinged me to was about how Microsoft foun that every computer made in China came pre-installed with spyware and stuff
I don’t know if I can find it though
It appears that the Ubuntu operating shell (if I can say it that way) will run on this particular microprocessor....
What do you then WANT to DO?
What web browser....since I guess you would not want to use Chrome.
Wine will NOT work on this system. So you can’t run Windows applications directly - wine depends on the X86 instruction set on the processor it is running on.
There ARE emulators like Bochs - but that isn’t what going to be quick.
Let’s try this a different way.
Arm is a supported architecture for Ubuntu. I even have a version of it running on my BeagleBoard (Much like the Panda ES mentioned in the article).
It has Firefox, it has LibreOffice, etc. Everything that compiles for Ubuntu can be in any architecture that Ubuntu supports!
If you have the compiler and libraries and drivers - it all plays together. That exists for lots of different ARM platforms.
They start from source code for Firefox, or LibreOffice and compile it for the different architectures. These things were built to run with X Windows, and the ARM Ubuntu systems support X - so they all work.
Does that explain it?
Firefox & TBird... If available in Ubuntu, Paint.Net, Irfanview, Media Player Classic and Open Office.
Well on this forum we have a formidable range of knowledge level.....
Guess I would say that not all know you must convert that source code to machine level code....ie....compile it...and test it.
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