Programming on samsung chromebook
Just enable Developer Mode, and you will get the access to the shell.
Let me try and answer each of your 3 questions:
- In dev mode you can hit ctrl+alt+T and get the shell. However, it's a trim/secure shell that won't let you do what you wish...
- You can load any type of OS from usb and install it. I have few friends that did it with ubuntu but each and everyone of them - moved back to chromeOS... may be, in your case it will be different :)
- Cloud9 is a cloud IDE that give you ability to develop in Python.
You can read a blog post I wrote in the past about 'developers and chromebook' - http://greenido.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/web-developers-and-the-new-chromebook/
Good luck!
You can also use crouton to install a chroot jail and then you are free to apt-get install any library that's compiles to armv7.
I have a Samsung Chromebook and I have installed the GAE python sdk , emacs and clozure common lisp for development.
Its super easy to set this up:
- Enter developer mode, for Samsung Chromebook follow this procedure.
- Download Crouton
- Ctrl-Alt-T to open terminal , type shell to open a bash shell and run $ sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton
- after crouton finishes, to enter your new chroot $ /usr/local/bin/enter-chroot
I have blogged about my experience here