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Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the there-has-to-be-a-catch dept.

Hairyfeet writes:

Want a free Chromebook? All you have to do is take a Linux course offered by the Linux Foundation and its yours. The offer is from Sept first to the thirtieth so if you want a Dell Chromebook with a 1.4Ghz CPU and 4GB of RAM for free? Best grab one ASAP.

Keep in mind when siging up for these courses, while the Chromebooks are free, the courses most certainly are not. According to the Class Schedule posted on the Linux Foundation site, prices range from $0 (Introduction to Linux) to $2500 and up for most everything else.

Promotion Eligibility:

This promotion is available to anyone who purchases either a scheduled or elearning Linux Foundation training course between September 1, 2015 and September 30, 2015.

The following purchases are not eligible for this promotion:

  • Free courses (such as the edX LFS101x course)
  • The India-only LFS201/LFCS Bundle
  • Corporate training
  • Linux Foundation Events
  • Discounted instances of LFS201 Essentials of System Administration and related bundles

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday September 06 2015, @11:48AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday September 06 2015, @11:48AM (#232947)

    Want a free Chromebook? All you have to do is take a Linux course offered by the Linux Foundation ...

    But will it run GNU/Linux natively? or a BSD? Or any other OS I feel like loading?

    ...no? Then why bother? Or is it a competition where first prize is one Chromebook and second prize is two?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:29PM (#232978)

    Does your laptop support Coreboot? Because Chromebooks run open-source Coreboot instead of UEFI. You can run most popular Linux distros on it. If you aren't running an open BIOS, you were rooted from the beginning.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @05:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @05:17PM (#233008)

      My current laptop runs on 100% free software. Can the same be said about Chromebooks?

    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday September 06 2015, @11:27PM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday September 06 2015, @11:27PM (#233075)

      Does your laptop support Coreboot? ...

      Both my laptops are pre-UEFI, gave up on laptops some time ago (because of the high expense/benefit ratio for my use).

      ... Because Chromebooks run open-source Coreboot instead of UEFI. You can run most popular Linux distros on it.

      So I can plug a Slackware USB drive in, reboot, and dump Chrome and run Slack instead? When did this happen (It is a while since I checked into this)? If not, then why bother?

      If you aren't running an open BIOS, you were rooted from the beginning.

      Sadly true.

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