Viability of Chrome(ium) OS instead of Edubuntu

[Jesse Griffin]

I'd suggest testing it!  It really is going to take less than an hour to
download, copy to a USB, install, and test it out.  I know that Youtube
worked fine, but I don't have them handy to test other sites out for you.
If it works then I'd suggest this will be much *simpler* to maintain than a
home-brewed collection of scripts.  Even if it doesn't work out of the box,
I think you would be better off starting with Chrome OS as your base and
making your modifications to it.

Thank you,
Jesse Griffin

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't beleive I didn't put this in my message:
>
> What about plugins like Flash? Chrome has much of that embedded. Does
> Chromium OS provide the same plugins? My sense is that it wouldn't because
> Chromium doesn't pay the same licensing fees that Google does for Chrome.
>
> On Mon Jan 26 2015 at 5:39:14 AM Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Jesse,
>>
>> You say you're using Chrome OS. Chrome OS or Chromium OS? And, which
>> distro? What keeps me away from Chromium is my perception (am I wrong) that
>> it's still very much a work-in-progress as opposed to being ready for
>> trouble-free use.
>>
>> Thanks, Eric.
>>
>> On Sun Jan 25 2015 at 6:23:38 PM Jesse Griffin <jag3773 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have done what you suggest, creating systems that auto-update and also
>>> distributing a tar file that has a pristine copy of a user's home directory
>>> (on reboot the home direction is returned to its original state).  This
>>> setup ran on around 150 computers and worked well, all things considered.
>>> I could probably dig up some of those scripts if you were interested, but
>>> they are about 7 years old now, the basics are still the same though.
>>>
>>> However, having also just setup Chrome OS on several dated HP Minis, I
>>> would not go back to my scripted setup.  I know you said you didn't want to
>>> go that way, but it has about 95% of what you are asking for--I'd suggest
>>> trying it at the least.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Jesse Griffin
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thought: Have machines auto-update themselves
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to be able to propagate package installs/removals to the
>>>> machines WITHOUT ever having to intervene. I'd especially like to be able
>>>> to make changes to the guest/default home account (e.g. preferences)
>>>> without having to maintain a sever to control these machines.
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if it's possible to turn a home directory into a package
>>>> that can then replace an existing home directory on the destination machine
>>>> and be autoupdated from a personal repository when changes are made to the
>>>> 'golden master' home directory.
>>>>
>>>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30303/how-to-create-
>>>> a-deb-file-manually
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm. I'm now also wondering if it's possible to make these machines
>>>> install new packages through the auto-update mechanism. Create a single
>>>> package that has as its dependencies any new packages you want installed.
>>>> Now, will packages installed as dependencies then proceed to auto-update
>>>> themselves or will they remain static until the fake package specifies new
>>>> dependencies? (this is simply musing--I'm not prepared to put in that
>>>> effort yet).
>>>>
>>>> What I've run into is a problem with Chrome not playing nice with
>>>> Guest. It seems that Chrome (and Opera) won't run in the Guest account
>>>> under Edubuntu/Ubuntu unless you specify --no-sandbox.
>>>>
>>>> The search continues.
>>>>
>>>>
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