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Ubuntu For Phones To Arrive Next Week On Nexus 4

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-linux-on-the-nexus4top dept.

nk497 writes "Canonical has revealed that a developer preview of Ubuntu for phones will arrive next week, on the 21st of February. The touch preview will initially only be available for the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 smartphones, but Canonical plans to support more devices. The release is designed to let developers create apps — and to give 'enthusiasts' a sneak peek — ahead of the smartphone side of Ubuntu arriving in version 13.10 in October. Canonical suggested that the OS will initially only support low-end smartphones, but the group plans to also support higher-end models, too, and the OS will work across mobile devices, PCs and TVs."

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  1. Linux on the phone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know slashdot is the Linux zealot's home-from-home on the web, but believe it or not, many of us actually make our livings providing solutions based on Microsoft and Apple technology.

    Its not that we are somehow dumb, or "don't get it", in fact quite the opposite. We have investigated Linux (and BSD, etc) and found it lacking. In all of the key areas of business, Linux is clearly inferior to W2K, let alone IOS or RT.

    Obviously I will be modded down for saying something so heretical in a linux-bigot forum like slashdot, but it needs to be said.

    If businesses were not making $$$$s from their Microsoft and Apple systems, do you really think they would stick with them ?

    If Linux really did offer any competitive advantage do you think businesses (whose main concern is making money) would not install Ubuntu straight away ?

    Lets face facts. Linux is an obscure, hard to use, inconsistant OS, with a few cool features and thousands of drawbacks. Microsoft has nothing to fear, and indeed is giving Linux a spurious credibility by even acknowledging it.

    Microsoft will still be hear years after we have forgotten who Linus Torvaldees is. I mean, you don't hear too much about OS/2 or the Amiga these days, do you ? Both these OS's were supposedly superior to windows, but Microsoft kicked both their asses real hard.

    Anyway I know I am wasting my breath here, but geeks and nerds who want to succeed in the information economy had better study a few business courses, in addition to their geek courses, then they will realise that their time would be better spent getting a professional qualification such as MCSE rather than rebuilding their kernal every 2 minutes.

    Phew, good to get that off my chest.