In this post I document the steps required to install and configure Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) on an ASUS C200MA-EDU-4GB Chromebook.

My buddy at work just got a new Acer C720-3404 Chromebook. I have the ASUS C200MA-EDU-4GB Chromebook. We decided to do a real-world performance comparison with a sample task that we have to perform all of the time.

OK, this post is part of my continuing experiments with an ASUS C200 Chromebook. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 using crouton.

I had created two partitions on a Micro SD Card, one as Fat32 (EsFat actually) and the other as ext4.

The FAT32 partition mounts at /media/removeable/share and the ext4 partition mounts at /media/removeable/gordy. I tried storing various projects on the ext4 partition but when I tried to build from that partition I would get a permissions error.

One thing that really bugged me with my new ASUS C22MA Chromebook was the way that track-pad scrolling worked. By default it is exactly the opposite of my MacBook Pro.

I made a post yesterday that covered the steps required to install Ubuntu on an ASUS C200 Chromebook. One thing I noticed was that, while you are running Ubuntu, it ties up your terminal window and makes it unavailable for doing other tasks.

Introduction

I have been interested in seeing if would be possible to set-up a Chromebook so that some serious development work with it. It’s a given that you won’t be running any virtual machines on a Chromebook. But at this point I think you can do pretty much any thing else you might need to do.