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Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7
An anonymous reader writes "Ubuntu for the Nexus 7 was released today and Ubuntu Member Benjamin Kerensa has provided photos and video of it in action." I wish the Nexus 7 had what most Android tablets lack: a full-size USB port (or SD card slot) to make such OS experimenting easier.
Does it work without mouseover now?
I can't imagine using the menus at all on a tablet.
contrary to popular opinion, unity is not a tablet interface, and requires a mouse. It didn't even allow access to the launcher without a mouse for a little bit.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
If Ubuntu works then virtually anything else will. All that matters at the lowest level is the kernel.
The hard part is getting video to not suck as most of the GPUs have userspace blobs that only work with Android's libc. There's a means of making them work with X.org and glibc (libhybris) but I doubt many people will work on packaging them together.
do these $3 OTG cables enable charging at the same time as acting as a host?
i.e. the single micro usb port typically plugs into a mains outlet to charge. Is it possible to plug your mains adapter into a 'powered' usb hub, then plug your phone via an OTG cable into that hub? Both drawing power and accessing usb devices such as keyboards, mice, sd cards?
phone [hub powering 3 or so usb devices]----------------- mains power
i.e. I wouldn't want to run an Ubuntu system that only ran for 90 minutes because one had to connect one's charger!
> why would you want ethernet over USB?
It's much faster.
Wireless sucks. Poor performance is just one of the many reasons.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
They do, you are just too much of a cheap bastard to buy one that does. ASUS and Fujitsu both make an X86 tablet that will run linux for you right now with no hacks that has USB host and SD card slots.
They are $600-$900 and have been available for a long time now.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Only if you don't have spectrum congestion and are willing to deal with the security hassle.
My brother did a bit of hacking to put Debian on a Psion. I was pretty proud of him at the time!
Debian on Psion
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "we have a protractor"
why would you want ethernet over USB?
The more options you have, the more options you have.
Don't think of the tablet as only a consumer device, and only for media consumption. Think of the tablet as a laptop replacement for network troubleshooting purposes. Reconfiguring wireless routers that puke their configs, etc. A tablet would be much lighter to walk around with in a PoP/IEP/data center, especially since you could hold it with one hand and type with the other. And when you're done, (at least if you're a big guy like me) just drop it back in your coat pocket, no need to repack a laptop bag.
Also, I know an internet cafe that sometimes has problems with both of its wireless networks such that nobody can log on... but most of their tables upstairs are also wired, and those ports are always open.
Get off my launchpad!
Efforts to port Qt and Wayland to Android are progressing.
As I understand, this is hampered by Google creating its own libc implementation to provide just enough support to run dalvik on top of it for an under-resourced phone platform in 2007.
Because control over a device means it is you, and not the manufacturer or the carrier or the os maker, that decides when it's getting obsolete.
This is the first reason for google, apple, microsoft, to do the same "mistakes" at the same time, forfeiting an established base of pc users.
The subtle reason is that under the labels "mobile" and "cloud" there is a movement to end the personal computing era, and return to a client/server model. I don't think the reasons for that are exclusively commercial. Think about 1984, with the added bonus that even the proles buy portable telescreens for themselves and are proud to show off the more capable models.
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