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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."
Ubuntu £inux is the root cause of bad government. Did you know that Ubuntu collects your personal information and files and sends them to the NSA and Amazon for inspection? Reputable companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft never disclose your personal information. Did you know that Ubuntu can't run the smash hit Aliens: Colonial Marines (on its war to becoming the game of the year 2013)? Who could use such shitty software! Shuttleworth likes to talk about how advanced their tablets and phones will be when they hit market, but they contains black ops GPS tracking ribbons (the kind used to track you using $20) bills. Why aren't any of these heavily advertised products on the market yet? Some believe that the technology to build them doesn't exist yet, and they are waiting for delivery.... Does this mean that Shuttleworth is involved in a conspiracy with aliens? I don't know, I'm just asking questions. I personally installed Windows 8 and signed up for the cloud, and now I have a worry free desktop. Microsoft is doing their best to beat back the Ubuntu monopolists but so far the Canonical conspiracy is unbeatable.
You read that as Ubuntu Touch Porn-a-Thon.
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I wonder if the resistive touchscreen of the N900 would eliminate the chances of a port.
Aren't you sick of working for free so some big money dickhead at Redhat, Ubuntu or IBM can get rich? Meanwhile you're in your mom's basement and can't get laid while Millionaire Space Tourist And Ubuntu Owner Mark Shuttleworth pounds premium pussy and laughs at all you nerds working for him for free...
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.
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Work for free so Shuttleworth can abuse his users? That sounds like something i'd love to do.
If canonical is going to do things in secret, ignore privacy concerns and adopt an apple like "we know best" attitude they should just hire people to fix their software. You've got to be pretty naive to work on an Canonical product at this point.
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?
[citation needed]
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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.