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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.
I wonder if the resistive touchscreen of the N900 would eliminate the chances of a port.
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.
There is a serious lack of features still. GSM data doesn't even work, and the only apps are the dialer, web browser, video player and camera.
Eye candy would be nice if it wasn't full of fake data and static images (see calculator and weather apps)
It's a chroot environment running on top of a bare-bones Android install (Cyanogen kernel, actually). It's based off 12.10 and actually includes the standard repo, so you can install anything that's been compiled for arm (or compile it yourself, godforbid) There's no terminal app, so you have to do all this remotely. You can try installing X11, but I wasn't able to get it to work. I think the Touch UI is locking the framebuffer. (if X even has support for it)
The interface is pretty sluggish and the app selection is very minimal. I would recommend most people hold off for now unless you are a die hard Ubuntu fan or plan on developing apps for the OS. It's an interesting concept and I think the UI looks cool (people that like Unity may disagree with me here.) The whole idea of using swipe gestures as opposed to buttons that always remain on screen is also something that differentiates itself from Android and iOS.
I tried it on the Nexus 10 and I'm interested to see how the dual-pane/multi-tasking features will work in practice after watching the video with Mark Shuttleworth showing it off.
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.
Development of the Terminal application is underway and open to anybody who wants to contribute to it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps/Terminal
And yes, there is a lot that hasn't been implemented yet. This is a Developer Preview, meant to give app developers something to play with and deploy Ubuntu SDK apps on, and also to make the source code available to anybody who wants to hack on it (and we hope contribute those hacks back to us).
http://www.mhall119.com
Why would you expect that? It's a developer preview with the API and SDK frameworks so that developers can start testing their applications on the actual devices instead of an interface simulator on the computer. They've been nothing but clear about this since they announced it in January.
The "proper" Linux port will be finished in time for Ubuntu 13.10.