Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Debugging Web Pages on the Nokia 8110 with KaiOS using Chrome OS

Paul Kinlan

This post is a continuation of the post on debugging a KaiOS device with Web IDE, but instead of using macOS, you can now use Chrome OS (m75) with Crostini. I'm cribbing from the KaiOS Environment Setup which is a good start, but not enough for getting going with Chrome OS and Crostini. Below is the rough guide that I followed. Make sure that you are using at least Chrome OS m75 (currently dev channel as of April 15th), then:

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'Moving to a Chromebook' by Rumyra's Blog

Paul Kinlan

Ruth John moved to Chrome OS (temporarily): The first thing, and possibly the thing with the least amount of up to date information out there, was enabling Crostini. This runs Linux in a container on the Chromebook, something you pretty much want straight away after spending 15 minutes on it. I have the most recent Pixel, the 256GB version. Here's what you do. Go to settings. Click on the hamburger menu (top left) - right at the bottom it says 'About Chrome OS' Open this and there's an option to put your machine into dev mode It'll restart and you'll be in dev mode - this is much like running Canary over Chrome and possibly turning on a couple of flags.

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