Arthur Raleigh

It does - well enough for occasional use.

Well, it was on my home region which is fairly sparsely populated, but quite dense with objects. I just TPed to a couple of places with 25 and 56 other avis present and still got around 15 fps. although they were a bit slow to rez and some appeared ghosted due to high complexity. I just let the viewer self-optimise and everything's set close to minimum, but as I said before this is about being able to interact on a low-power long battery life machine, not having a full high-def immersive experience. The increase in cores and RAM seems to have eliminated the lag, stuttering and crashing that the two-core 4Mb machine suffered from. So, for use on the road, it's acceptable to me.

And another update. I've upgraded to a higher spec. Chromebook (8Mb RAM, Quad-core Pentium) and am now getting quite a reasonable graphics performance with Kokua (15fps). The lag and occasional crashes that I got on the dual-core 4Mb machine seem have disappeared.

Thanks for linking to my post. I can confirm that it does work, though graphics performance is not the greatest. Firestorm doesn't work any more, but Kokua installs in much the same way.

I suspect it would be pretty compromised. The Linux environment is stripped down and sandboxed already.

Lenovo C340-11. It's replaced my MacBook as my workhorse when I'm away from the office. It would benefit from a bit more RAM, but it was a decent spec. when I got it a couple of years ago. I *think* the error is sound-related and I'm loth to mess too much with the Linux VM because last time I did it broke...badly. Fortunately, I had a backup so could get back to a state where LibreOffice was working properly again.

Yes. Been there. Still can't track it down.

I've found that the latest couple of Firestorm releases crash during startup due to a missing dependency which I can't track down. Kokua, OTOH, seems to work flawlessly and gives better performance on slightly older hardware. Installation process on ChromeBook's Linux VM is pretty much the same as for Firestorm.

An infrequent update on this (I'll do them when I remember - if you're not interested or just want to say "you can't run SL on a Chromebook", why are you reading this?) The last version of Firestorm that runs for me is 6.4.21.64531. Later versions seem to have a library dependency that causes a crash just before/during login - I think it's sound related but haven't managed to resolve it. However, Kokua seems to work as an alternative in the Chromebook Linux environment and actually seems to render a bit faster than Firestorm did. It's not blisteringly fast, but it's good enough for occasional use. Don't expect to be able to use it for photography or video production, but if need something to let you dip into SL and you only have a an Intel-based Chromebook available, it's OK. Installation process for Kokua is similar to that described above for Firestorm.

From the terminal you need to run ./firestorm/firestorm You should also have a Linux Apps icon group on your desktop and firestorm should be in there.

Yep. I'm running it myself.

If you enable the Linux beta on a Chromebook, you can install the Linux Firestorm client. The key thing is to unpack in your Linux home directory, not the default Downloads directory. Once you've done that, it will run. If you get an error about a failed media plugin, you also need to install the Linux chromium browser to enable the Flash libraries that are missing.

Firestorm viewer will run in the Linux Beta environment on a Chromebook.

Confirmed. Firestorm viewer will run acceptably in the Linux Beta environment on a Chromebook. You just need to be sure to unpack the tarball in your home directory, not in the default Downloads directory (where it can't make symlinks) and install the linux chromium browser if you don't want the media plugin to crash. It's running quite happily on my Lenovo C341 right now.