[SGVLUG] Chromebook and the future of secure boot

[Dan Buthusiem]

Hey, could you put your Chromebook in dev mode for us and test Netflix?
Supposedly, Netflix won't work in dev mode. He wanted to buy one, but if he
can't play Netflix from dev mode, then it would be pointless for him to buy
it. He wants to boot Ubuntu, then reboot into ChromeOS for Netflix. You
can't install another OS without dev mode, and if Netflix won't play under
dev mode, he's better off using his current laptop which already doesn't
play Netflix.

Then again, considering what the Chromebook costs, I don't think it'd cost
much more to just run Windows in virtualbox. That is, unless Windows
absolutely isn't an option.

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On Mar 22, 2012 11:14 AM, "Kenny Leao" <shiningkenmonster at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do have the prototype Chromebook - CR-48. As for the Chromebook on
> developer mode. I don't think it matters if you are flipping the
> switch to developer mode. When you don't flip the switch. It is in
> secure boot mode. the chromebook does an automatic scan each time you
> power up your chromebook. if something is corrupt with the OS or there
> is malware. it will automatically install a fresh protected copy of
> Chrome OS. There are two copies of the OS. When you flip the switch,
> it turns off this feature. you can unlock the full terminal commands.
> it also formats the partition too. I am not sure why, but it is a
> security feature so it makes sure your Chrome OS has not been tamper
> with. It does this each time when you flip the switch to on and off.
> Chrome OS should work with Netflix. However using another Linux distro
> won't work. because the Netflix website has DRM. Netflix and Google
> had worked together to make it work. They have compiled the netflix
> web app/ html5 to get it to work without Microsoft's Silverlight
> plugin.
>
> To the first author who made this post. I believe the person whom you
> got the comment about "it doesn't work" sounds unaccredited. That
> person sounds like a noob. I have tried Chrome OS on Netflix before.
> it does work. I have never done it in developer mode before. I hope I
> am not wrong. I do hang out in the forum a quite a lot. I have never
> seen a complain about being in the developer mode won't make the
> Netflix not work.
>
> You can ask some of the forum members of the chromebooks on here:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chromebook-central
>
> you can also ask a Google ninja directly, some of them do hang out in
> the chromebook forum too.
> http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1280301
> however, you do need a chromebook to contact a chromebook ninja.
>
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