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.

After seeing with my own eyes how rapidly the very minimal the xmonad windowing manager starts up after logging in, I decided to upgrade an old Linux box I have at the office that is running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr).

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.

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.

This post describes how to install and configure Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) with SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode) that is installed via Quicklisp on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

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.

I recently signed up for a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with vpsdime. The idea is to set-up a complete development environment for all of my work and personal projects that I can access from a low-end device like a Chromebook or an iPad (with a suitable SSH app installed).