Samsung ARM Chromebook help?

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I installed opensuse 12.2 on my Samsung ARM Chromebook following this guide: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:ARMChromebook . No Chromium browser so I can not run Google apps in Chrome. Can not install flash which is required by a lot of websites and by youtube. Have not tried dropbox yet? Also doing a zypper ref the ARM-Updates is invalid?

Andrew Wafaa suggested running 12.3. The article Opening the Can: initial support for openSUSE on the ARM Chromebook states 12.3 milestone 2 is available bit the link is dead. I fiddled with the link and can find 12.3 images but none for the chromebook?

Can someone please provide some advise. Don’t know where to get help and what the appropriate forum would be to post - sorry if this is not the right place, it’s my best guess.

Thanks for your hard work on this initiative.

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Hi
You can talk direct to Andrew and others on IRC #opensuse-arm channel…
https://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Instant_chat_.28IRC.29

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No one ever in that channel? If you can’t provide feedback, and find fixes, pardon me, but what’s the use? 12.3 can’t open the software installer, there no firefox installed? I understand all this is community work or supplied freely but if something is released to the public it would seem like the developers would welcome feedback.

Thanks
Tom

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I also have a Chromebook and after much struggle I managed to install Chrubuntu onto a 16 GB SDHC. Although I can run Firefox successfully I am not too happy with the complicated boot procedure and the fact that I can’t run Skype on it- Apparently Skype is compiled to only run on Intel cpu’s. I am pretty sure that as more get sold there will be further development, but for now I have learned to live with the Chrome browser which is not all that bad. Google Talk is a Skype substitute, but all my friends are using Skype and will not switch just for my benefit.