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.
Just use a usb OTG adapter.
I won't by a tablet unless it has a USB host and an SD slot. My $100 android phone has OTG and microSD, why can't they put those features in all tablets? It's not a cost issue, most ARM SoC have built in usb host and sd slots are as cheap as a 0.10 connector and a few PCB traces.
Those designers should feel shame
A good platform for Unity.
Just use this (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-OTG-Host-Cable-Adapter-for-Galaxy-S2-SII-i9100-/330752145575?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:NL:3160) or any of the hundreds of equivalent OTG adapters.
Pick up a usb SD reader (I bought one a couple of years ago for under 10 euro)
Root your device, and you have anything you want on your Nexus 7. I have tried USB stick, SD card, USB keyboard and mouse, and charging my phone. It al works.
The most difficult part is keeping your nerve while rooting. The process itself is easy, but still, your glad when you're finished and you have not bricked your device.
Because it's as easy as having the right cable
Now you have a full-sized USB port. :-p
Does this special version of Ubuntu have non-crap touch input?
I've loaded 12.04 and 12.10 on my Iconia W500 and it's never worked right. From the launcher breaking and never appearing again once the screen is touched to the Onscreen keyboard not actually supporting multitouch, as much as people claim that Unity is for tablets it doesn't work very well.
> 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.
*Sigh*. Really? *Really?* You want to ruin the design by putting an oversized USB socket just because it would save 1 person in hundreds of thousands from having to buy an adapter? Which you probably own anyway?
I couldn't get through the video due to the gay music.
"How on earth does that relate to OTG?"
Because you can connect an SD card reader, an USB memory or an USB hard drive for that matter, neatly resolving the original complaint which was about access to external storage: " (or SD card slot) ".
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
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"
And Unity finally makes the natural leap from unusable PC desktop environment to laggy, buggy tablet interface.
And exactly how does that give the tablet "a full-size USB port"? But I guess that's Sloppy Editor for "USB A port", OTG is indeed a good substitute for. Dumb of me not to see that.
Surely this will be the year of Linux on the tablet.
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.
It's not actually meant to be used as a proper tablet OS, it's mainly just for testing.
This Android device has full size USB and MicroSD slot. It's perfect in every way. http://www.asus.com/Tablet/Transformer_Pad/ASUS_Transformer_Pad_Infinity_TF700T/#specifications I would love to have Ubuntu running on it.
Exactly right. Bionic is the single worst technical decision in Android, from a free/open source interoperability perspective. It should be a priority to replace it with glibc so that the full ecosystem of desktop and server applications can be brought over.
I think it would be pretty cool to have a .deb or .rpm based tablet that runs Android apps in their own windows on a regular X11 desktop, has a WCDMA or LTE modem built in and supports Bluetooth headsets, mouses and keyboards.
So true.. No high end phone even comes close to N7 with JB. Just some desktop apps & 3G and it would be perfect.
I'm not an ubuntu user, but Its pretty close to what I want. Android is also a Linux distro. I like the idea of having the choice of different WM/GUI configurations which will allow for more experimentation and innovation than the closed development model of android allows.
I'd love to get Plasma Active on it. http://plasma-active.org/
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.