Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu

An anonymous reader notes Ars Technica's report from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, where Canonical has unveiled a prototype Android execution environment that will allow Android applications to run on Ubuntu and "potentially other conventional Linux distributions." "Android uses the Linux kernel, but it isn't really a Linux platform. It offers its own totally unique environment that is built on Google's custom Java runtime. There is no glide path for porting conventional desktop Linux applications to Android. Similarly, Java applications that are written for Android can't run in regular Java virtual machine implementations or in standard Java ME environments. This makes Android a somewhat insular platform. Canonical is creating a specialized Android execution environment that could make it possible for Android applications to run on Ubuntu desktops in Xorg alongside regular Linux applications. The execution environment would function like a simulator, providing the infrastructure that is needed to make the applications run. Some technical details about the Android execution environment were presented by Canonical developer Michael Casadevall... They successfully compiled it against Ubuntu's libc instead of Android's custom libc and they are running it on a regular Ubuntu kernel."

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Fri5t stop

[Anonymous Coward]

superior to sl0w, The 8obo blew One Here but now

Re:important lesson

[Jamie's Nightmare]

Indeed, they prefer Linux when it doesn't resemble anything like the aborted fetus that is today's Linux environment on a PC.

Re:If I had the choice

[freedom_india]

I hate Ubuntu.
9.04 hosed my XP setup when i tried to uninstall it.
(yes i installed ubuntu under windows).
The registry hive SOFTWARE was gone. Restore couldn't do a shit.
Plus i had long lost my XP CD and key.
I had to download WIndows 7 RC1 to boot up my system.
I hate Ubuntu for screwing up my computer.