ARM Chromebooks

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Hacking gets a working multi‑distro laptop: Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE boot and run on the ARM Samsung Chromebook, with Ubuntu 15.04 reported as usable and the device serving as a daily machine. Video accelerates under Chrome OS so full‑HD YouTube is playable, the GPU is a Mali‑T604 used for compositing and WebGL, USB 3 hits 76 MB/s, RAM is 2 GB, Cortex‑A15 gives noticeably better performance than Cortex‑A9, and KVM/virtualization is proposed.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:04ARM Chromebooks open and secure
3. 2:28Hardware limits and blobs
4. 3:53Mali T604 GPU in Chrome OS
5. 4:54Battery life and updates
6. 6:19Cortex A15 vs A9 performance
7. 7:02Future development and virtualization
8. 8:24ARM adoption at Linaro
9. 9:10Big.LITTLE efficiency

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