Good for CUDA?

[Byeah]

So I just ordered the Acer Chromebook that has a Tegra K1 off of Amazon along with C, C++, and CUDA programming books to teach myself some languages and how to work with CUDA. My Chromebook was around the same price as the Jetson K1 dev. board and I've recently had a sparked interest in learning how to program - specifically working with CUDA. The only question that comes to mind currently is if its possible for me to be able to actually practice programming on the ChromeOS or if I can install some form of Linux that will allow me to. There is L4T (Linux for Tegra) which may work on the Chromebook but I'm just simply not sure if it will. Does anyone know if I can install Linux on to said Chromebook? I seriously want to be able to take advantage of it. And be able to pick up C, C++, and CUDA, along side of OpenCL and/or OpenGL.

If anyone wants links to the books and Chromebook, they are here -
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-CB5-311-T9B0-Chromebook-13-3-inch-NVIDIA/dp/B00NC088EA/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131387685/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0988927802/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789751984/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[jimmyb]

The only question that comes to mind currently is if its possible for me to be able to actually practice programming on the ChromeOS

Yes.

Does anyone know if I can install Linux on to said Chromebook?

ChromeOS is a Linux.

 

[jwcalla]

I think there are complications with installing L4T or Ubuntu on an ARM-based Chromebook. I'm pretty sure that installing it in a chroot environment is almost hopeless at the current state. (But things are changing.) You'll have to do some more research with that.

I'm not sure that the CUDA compilers are available for ChromeOS.