[01:46] <jabulmer12> hey
[01:46] <jabulmer12> looking for a little bit of help if any ones around?
[01:47] <jabulmer12> any one?
[14:06] <RoyK> it sucks rather hard that ubuntu won't run on the raspberry pi
[14:07] <tassadar__> why do you want to run ubuntu there? Oo
[14:24] <RoyK> because galicaster uses a bunch of things and is built on ubuntu
[14:27] <tassadar__> are you sure that rPI is even powerful enough to run that?
[14:42] <liono> hi everyone, I'm thinking about getting a samsung chromebook and using crouton. my only question is: what do the ARM repos look like--can you easily install Pidgin, say, or Skype?
[14:43] <liono> and is there a list of software available anywhere?
[14:50] <Zero_Chaos> liono: skype is binary crap, so you almost certainly can't use it on arm.
[14:51] <Zero_Chaos> hell, it barely works on x86
[14:51] <Zero_Chaos> liono: but anything open source is easy enough to build if it's not in the repos
[14:51] <xnox> ogra_: I'm about to demo flashing nexus7 with ubuntu touch/core.
[14:51] <xnox> do we have working latest images?
[14:52] <ogra_> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-preinstalled/last-good-image/
[14:52] <ogra_> (which is the one from the 4th) ...
[14:52] <ogra_> todays should just be building
[14:52] <liono> Zero_Chaos: I'm trying to decide whether to go with the c7 (x86) or the samsung (ARM). I realize that I can build stuff but I'm wondering how often I'll have to do that
[14:53] <Zero_Chaos> liono: all the basics are definately there. the arm port is reasonably complete. at least the raring one that I was playing with was. I'm guessing the precise one was good too
[14:53] <ogra_> liono, 90% of the ubuntu archive are available on arm ... no need to compile stuff usually
[14:54] <liono> oh wow, that's a lot more complete than I thought it would be
[14:54] <ogra_> indeed, binary x86 stuff like skype isnt available ...
[14:54] <Zero_Chaos> liono: most of the open source stuff *just works* so it's easy to just recompile
[14:54] <Zero_Chaos> liono: ie it's already in the repos
[14:54] <liono> yeah that's fine re: skype, I was just throwing that out there as a 'hard one'
[14:55] <liono> and it looks like dropbox allows you to compile it from source...this ARM chromebook is looking better every second
[14:55] <ogra_> if you use a chromebook it has the advantage that you can dual boot ... and for things like google hangouts you just switch over
[14:55] <ogra_> so there is *some* binary crap working ;)
[14:55] <liono> :)
[14:55] <ogra_> (oh and flash indeed)
[14:56] <liono> I like crouton's way of simul-running distros
[14:56] <liono> er simul-running chromeos and xubuntu
[15:01] <liono> dang, it looks like skype offers a .tar.bz2
[15:02] <ogra_> with x86 binaries, yes
[15:02] <liono> ha
[15:02] <liono> I was just getting it to open it
[15:02] <ogra_> there are even ubuntu packages in the canonical partner repo
[15:02] <liono> :p
[15:03] <liono> arm packages in partner?
[15:03] <ogra_> nope
[15:03] <liono> dang
[15:03] <ogra_> there are no arm binaries from microsoft ... at least none that would run on linux
[15:05] <ogra_> one might be able to rip them out of a cracked surface RT ... but then you would need wine on arm to have support for RT to execute it... which it doesnt
[15:07] <liono> pretty tricky
[15:07] <liono> just realized I'm relying on spotify for a lot of my music
[15:07] <liono> which deffo is not open source and not compiled for arm
[15:08] <xnox> ogra_: yeah, using last-good and it works. ok.
[15:08] <liono> well thank you guys so much for your help! I have some thinking to do
[15:08] <ogra_> heh, FSVO Ok
[15:08] <liono> catch you later!
[15:08] <ogra_> xnox, have a keyboard ready :)
[15:08] <xnox> ogra_: i'm demoing preseeding, so no keyboard needed =)
[15:09] <ogra_> hehe, youre cheating :P
[19:30] <xnox> ogra_: i showed them usb-creator flashing nexus7 and everyone loved it.