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Chromebook for JMRI

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Chromebook for JMRI
Posted by andy chandler on Thursday, December 9, 2021 8:23 PM

Gize:  could I use  Chromebook for JMRI programing of decoders?  Thanks, andy

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Posted by garya on Thursday, December 9, 2021 8:58 PM

andy chandler

Gize:  could I use  Chromebook for JMRI programing of decoders?  Thanks, andy

 

Yes and no.  Chromebooks can't run JMRI in their native environment, but many you can set up to run Linux, and then you can run JMRI on them.  

I have an Toshiba Chromebook 2, and I used Crouton to set up a shell so I could run LXDE.  

Gary

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