Developer Gets OpenSUSE Running On $249 Google Chromebook

sfcrazy writes "Andrew Wafaa, an ARM developer who is responsible for porting openSUSE to ARM, just got his hands on the Chromebook, and he managed to run openSUSE on it." Hopefully that means other distros can be soon ported to the Chromebook as well.

This is what it takes to get in the news?

[CyberKnet]

Step 1. Buy a Chromebook
Step 2. Use ChromeOS for half a day.
Step 3. Follows instructions you got from SOMEONE ELSE (a Google-employed developer, at that) on how to load openSUSE onto a Chromebook.
Step 4. Enjoy being on slashdot front page getting credit for what someone else told you how to do.

Geez.

Re:Why not Debian?

[marcello_dl]

I guess the feat is not to redo some porting of code to arm, which debian has done, but to configure the system/add drivers to support the chromebook.
IMHO if chromebook wants to sell more than a tablet it must work as a real laptop, and a linux distro is at the moment the only way to have a complete personal computing experience on arm.

Re:Impressive.

[OrangeTide]

Try installing Windows XP on your Window RT device.

Re:Why haven't OEMs caught on?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because it's an even more niche product than a Chromebook that have so far sold extremely poorly.

Re:Why haven't OEMs caught on?

[Microlith]

let's all wonder why Google hasn't officially offered to run another operating system on a machine made specifically for Google to run their OS on.

Good thing he didn't say Google but Samsung and others.