On 01/28/2013 10:18 AM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
Hi guys,
FOSDEM is close, we want everybody to talk about openSUSE and as ARM is super cool the idea how to do it is to do some periodical demos - something like five or ten minutes (can be longer) at booth in predefined time slots about what cool stuff can you do with ARM. We are going to have there ARM based Chromebooks to demo stuff. What we are missing is volunteers to do the demos, schedule and the demos :-D
Nice idea :)
Few ideas that comes to my mind:
* Web development on Chromebook
Ok, little lame, but we can show that if you replace ChromeOS with openSUSE, you can do web development on it, like rails or even much cooler tntnet[1]. I can test, prepare and do this one.
* KVM and Chromebook
If I'm not mistaken, Cromebooks do have Cortex A-15 and thus support for virtualization, kernel 3.8 and KVM should have support for that as well, so theoretically, we can boot some virtual machine on Chromebook, which would be awasome even as an article/video to do some promo after the FOSDEM. Only trouble is, that I'm not sure how much work it is and I don't have a Chromebook. So this one would require somebody else to prepare and test.
You make this sound so easy :). To run KVM on the Chromebook we need to 1) Hack up u-boot to boot into the kernel in HYP mode 2) Somehow merge all the existing trees (Chromebook & KVM), since neither are fully upstream yet. KVM is due 3.9 only. Alex
* WiFi sniffing/cracking
I have no experience with that so it would be again nice if somebody else would step in and do some demo. We can connect to the public WiFi that is going to be there and sniff around or setup some local AP and crack it on the spot...
* Packaging
We can do pretty ordinary OBS packaging demo with one minor modification - do everything on Chromebook and in the end submit package in OBS to get packages even for other architectures. I can do that one as well.
These were just a few ideas and I can make happen only two of them, so I would like to call for volunteers and for more ideas :-D We can off course do same demo twice or trice for different audience, but if we will get more cool stuff, it will be better. When we had these workshop sessions on LinuxTag, I remember that people came. Although the most packed were Hennes evening crafting sessions...
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