Re: Chromebook as a console -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Chromebook as a console
From: Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:48:41 -0400
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since that is the case how about a smallish laptop with a linux distro on it.
I have an ancient laptop win win98 on it for a console that I use infrequently.

Bryan

Mike Cunningham wrote on 6/17/2015 3:25 PM:

I just found that Chromebook does not run java. At least not without doing some OS hacking to force it to. Not a good idea for a console.

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Can you run java on it? If so it should work. Copy the IBM i Access Client Solutions .jar file on the thing and crank it up!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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