Chromebook / Chrome OS Developer Mode Abilities

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Luke Ellis picture Luke Ellis · Jun 26, 2012 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

I’m thinking of getting myself a Chromebook (running Chrome OS of course) but need to fully understand the developer mode. I’m struggling to find any concrete up to date information as to the developer modes abilities. Once I have entered developer mode and mounted the rootfs as writable (both of which are relatively straight forward) will the Chromebook/Chrome OS function relatively normally? By normal I mean can I install and run standard Linux binaries assuming they have been complied for the target architecture? I read somewhere that actually compiling from source on the Chromebook/OS was a no go. Why is this?

Answer

Ido Green picture Ido Green · Jul 22, 2012

Once you are in developer mode you can go and have freedom to do many things on your Chromebook (or any other chromeOS machine). For example if you take this project: https://github.com/helloandre/cr48

and follow these steps:

  • Put your CR-48 in developer mode drop into a shell (Ctrl+Alt+t)
  • Make your main partition executable with sudo mount -i -o remount,exec /home/chronos/user
  • Download this repo to a different computer, then use scp to put it to /home/chronos/user/cr48 cd /home/chronos/user/cr48 && chmod +x install && ./install

You could enjoy development technologies like: python, ruby, perl etc'.

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