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Ubuntu Touch Port-a-Thon
jppiiroinen writes "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has released the developer preview images for 4 different devices and a SDK Alpha on 21st day. Now two days after it seems that the community has kicked in and the Devices list is growing by the minute on their Ubuntu Touch Port-a-thon."
You read that as Ubuntu Touch Porn-a-Thon.
Smoke another one... lol
I wonder if the resistive touchscreen of the N900 would eliminate the chances of a port.
From what little I've played with it, Ubuntu Touch is nothing but a glorified chroot on top of a bare-bones Cyanogen install. Which is good as it eliminates the overhead of standard Android, but I expected something a little more bare metal.
My biggest surprise was the fact that they included the standard 12.10 repo. I was able to install SSH (real OpenSSH not dropbear) per their instructions and install anything I wanted. Pianobar (a shell Pandora client) worked wonderfully with the included ALSA driver. Last time I tried this in a Android chroot, the Android system had a lock on the sound system I couldn't break, so there's hope for better audio apps at least.
Next I want to try getting Xorg running which seems doable.
Of course all this is useless if you have the SSH via USB or Wifi to do it, but it's a good start.
Today I was looking for an iPhone port, I wish they did it if possible. It would be very cool indeed.
Fingers crossed that soon I'll be able to treble boot WebOS, Android and Ubuntu on my HP Touchpad.
So, to all those with compatible hardware and willingness to test out these installs, what do you think so far?
Seeing as these images are packaged for devices that were originally running Android, how does it compare to Android in terms of responsiveness, features, ease of use, intuitiveness, eye candy, etc? Any glitches, glaring ommissions? Any really cool features?
And what's the 'Linux' side of it like? Can you pull up a terminal and do general sys admin type stuff on one of these things? Does it have well populated repositories with packages we've come to take for granted on our desktops and servers?
Ask Oracle regarding MySQL... you can always fork MySQL if you don't like Oracle direction, can you do that with Windows or OS/X? With open source you have the option.
In fact, with the porting guide Ubuntu is giving to the community the control, they target is to bundle it with phones under their brand or companies that have an agreement with them. Port this to the devices you want, provided that had enough hardware support to run it. So far don't seem have ned connection to be tied to the company as Android do so if you want to do your own flavor probably the license will enable you to do it.
Or just develop for it and the other ones that share the same ecosystem, Sailfish, Tizen, Mer, KDE Active Plasma, BB10, Meego and probably others use Qt/QML as base, develop for it and will probably work in all with minimal effort, without being tied to a single platform.
Who care's if some people get to make bucket loads of cash off of open source? And for whatever money the likes of Mr Shuttleworth make off it (and good on them, I say), there's a lot of money being poured back into OS projects that we get to enjoy the fruits of for free. We're all profiting from the hard work of developers in some way or other.
*cares, not care's.
Edit buttons are much needed, Slashdot!
Spare us your whining.
Completely uncalled for. I fail to see how this "abuses" "his" users? Last time I remember, people weren't "working" for Canonical per se but working towards making x phone usable with Ubuntu.
Astroturf much?
and if you typed that from an ubuntu system, they now know everything you just said.
re: ubuntu; its now poisoned fruit. I can't trust them and won't ever install their stuff again. the company I work for was going to deploy ubuntu but I have warned them that, since the keylogging went public, no one should deploy their code, libs, distro.
sorry, but you get one chance to screw yourselves, ubuntu, and sadly, you took that.
game over.
no matter what you do, game over afaiac.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
How hard would it have been to list the devices in the summary?
That is the best troll I have read in ages!
[citation needed]
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You must be lamest troll on the planet, seriously our are.
HP Touchpad please!
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No Thanks. Ubuntu is becoming the M$ of the Linux world, with recent moves selling out their users. I'm sticking with Android.