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Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets
First time accepted submitter GuerillaRadio writes "Mark Shuttleworth is to announce that Canonical will be taking Ubuntu Linux to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL starting today. Shuttleworth said, 'This is a natural expansion of our idea as Ubuntu as Linux for human beings. As people have moved from desktop to new form factors for computing, it's important for us to reach out to our community on these platforms. So, we'll embrace the challenge of how to use Ubuntu on smartphones, tablets and smart-screens.'"
Can you dual boot a phone?
Yes. The basic way of installing Cyanogenmod (etc.) puts a recovery bootloader on your phone, such that you can select what OS to boot.
Yeah, Ubuntu's users were typically new Linux users, but often they were still experienced PC users with other OS (Windows/Mac) knowledge. Ubuntu is trying to impress users who have zero knowledge of how PC's work and make it super intuitive for those who haven't used any other OS, but these people aren't ever going to install Ubuntu in the first place. Meanwhile, Ubuntu's maturing userbase has finally decided to ditch the training wheels and move to another distribution after the horrendous 11.10 release. What were they thinking!?! I have Debian on my Archos 43 4.3" tablet. With GNOME2 and Bluetooth mini-keyboard. It's awesome. I seriously would rather have a classic interface even on a tablet, if you have a stylus you don't need obnoxiously wasteful buttons that take up 2-3 times the space they need to, and fitting more stuff on the screen gives more functionality (compare LibreOffice to tablet office apps and you'll see a big difference in the number of features provided).