Hi Pablo, sure. I am running on HP Chromebook X2 (full spec <https://support.hp.com/nz-en/document/c06160695>). Current Chrome OS 81. Help -> About shows this: Pharo 8.0.0, Build information: Pharo-8.0.0+build.1136.sha.a153e04ae4e325509ed78bfe25c9ce560afb24b0 (64 Bit) $ pharo-vm/pharo --version 5.0-202002121043 Wed Feb 12 11:06:45 UTC 2020 gcc 5.4.0 [Production Spur 64-bit VM] CoInterpreter * VMMaker-CompatibleUserName.1580983506 uuid: 7aff73cb-5a2e-5002-a356-37de4e762a49 Feb 12 2020 StackToRegisterMappingCogit * VMMaker-CompatibleUserName.1580983506 uuid: 7aff73cb-5a2e-5002-a356-37de4e762a49 Feb 12 2020 VM: 202002121043 https://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm.git Date: Wed Feb 12 11:43:20 2020 CommitHash: 52202d8 Plugins: 202002121043 https://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm.git Linux travis-job-93347cf3-9798-4672-8c23-706b9ceb049b 4.15.0-1028-gcp #29~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 12 16:31:10 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux plugin path: pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-202002121043 [default: /home/kurs/pharo8/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-202002121043/] Is there any other information I can provide? Cheers, Jan On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:57 PM tesonep@gmail.com <tesonep@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jan, sorry about listening of your problems. Can you give me more details of the version that you are using? (Architecture, OS, Pharo and VM). It looks like a problem with the rendering. I will try to reproduce it in a VM.

Thanks for the report.

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 7:52 PM Jan Kurš <kurs.jan@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi, has anyone an experience with running Pharo on Chromebook (using Crostini)? It worked reasonably well for me in the past (3 months ago), now I see rendering issues: [image: image.png]

I tried with latest and greatest Pharo8 and fresh image, I see the same rendering issue.

Thanks, Jan

-- Pablo Tesone. tesonep@gmail.com

I think that we will have to buy one of such device. What would be a good choice? I know Olivier runs pharo on his without problem, @olivier which Chrome book do you suggest us to buy? S.

On 8 Jun 2020, at 00:40, tbrunz <wild.ideas@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Pablo,

I'm seeing the same thing on a Chromebook "Pixelbook" Crostini (Linux) container:

Debian v9 ("stretch"), Linux kernel 4.9.0-12, recently updated. The system has 8GB RAM & 128GB SSD.

The ChromeOS version in 81.0.4044.141.

I'm running the latest Pharo Launcher, 2.0-2020.04.07, VM 5.0-202002121043.

Just opening Pharo Launcher, and without even launching an image, I'm seeing the same tearing and rendering problems as Jan. If I open the Settings dialog, it partially renders, and when I try to move the window, I get the tearing behavior.

And I was also able to run PL & images on this platform without problems in the past. (It's been at least a month since I tried running Pharo on a Chromebook.)

-Ted

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No, it's not quite the same... I've installed CloudReady on old (non-Chromebook) systems myself, so I'm a little bit familiar with it and what it can do. However, I've never tried to run 'Crostini' in CloudReady, so I don't know if that works, or (if it does), how well it parallels the implementation of Crostini on Google Chromebooks. I have read up some on how Google implements a GUI interface to applications running in its Linux containers, and it's not trivial. (But it does work very well on Chromebooks -- you can install a Linux app and have a clickable icon that appears just like any other ChromeOS or Android app icon.) And, yes, Crostini Linux containers give you a way to develop software on Chromebooks! Not only does Pharo work, but also other languages can be installed. (I'm running Pharo, Lua, and Lisp on my Pixelbook model.) For those who are not familiar with CloudReady: The company 'Neverware', with Google's approval (and investment), took ChromeOS's open-source foundation, Chromium OS, and built its own "Chromebook-like" version on top of it called 'CloudReady'. It was designed for schools, to give their old PCs new life -- they can run Google's 'G Suite for Education' while managing CloudReady PCs & laptops with the 'Google Admin Console'. Businesses, other organizations, and individuals can use it too. It's also free for individual users who don't require Google Admin tools. Like ChromeOS, CloudReady is updated every six weeks or so with security fixes and new features. And as with ChromeOS, to use CloudReady you must have a Google account. It not only runs on old WinTel systems, it runs on Mac hardware as well. You can 'test drive' CloudReady on your system without installing it (or wiping out your existing OS) by booting it from a USB thumb drive. If you decide you like it, you can later overwrite your system's OS by installing it to disk. Be aware that it will "take over" your entire drive and restrict the ways you can access it. (Crostini significantly opens up how you can use your disk space, since it basically implements a full Linux file system inside its container.) Here's a recent, detailed article on CloudReady, which includes procedures on how to make a bootable USB thumb drive, test drive it, and install it: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-switch-from-windows-7-to-chrome-os-clou... -t -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html