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by takrupp
5654 days ago
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I just got the CR-48 today (really surprised, no clue it was on the way). Happy surprised with the hardware thus far, and as commented above, it was the easiest setup I've experienced in an OS by far. Need to figure out a way to get dropbox to somehow work and would like to get a command prompt to be able to SSH into the server. |
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As for their OS, it's Chrome-the-browser with a login page and a few more hidden about:config style pages, no frills. I think my wife will love it when she gets home. All of her computing use cases are internet based, and we were discussing buying her an iPad, but she'll probably try to steal this for her couch computing usage. SD slot and file management seem a little iffy right now (downloading a PDF from google docs worked, uploading a picture from my digital camera didn't).
As for the command prompt, you can hit ctrl-alt-T to get to the console, but it's very limited. SSH is password only, not key based, which is practically a deal breaker for me.
The Verizon wireless setup was painless, and when connected it shows you how much data you have left in the context menu which is really nice (although you do have to create an account with Verizon and provide a CC number, even for the free service. I figure it's stored for immediate plan upgrade options since they don't have overage fees).
As someone else mentioned, I think a Google hosted VPN service would be really nice for this. More of the "no worries OS" since 100mb is very little wireless data and I'm not all that tempted to be daring and hop on public wifi and access any personal data.