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Ubuntu Touch Port-a-Thon

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-put-your-finger-on-it dept.

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."

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  1. Admit It by xstonedogx · · Score: 4, Funny

    You read that as Ubuntu Touch Porn-a-Thon.

  2. Re:N900 by Microlith · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doubtful, though multitouch features wouldn't work. The lack of RAM and slow processor would be far greater inhibitors.

  3. Touchpad by skine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fingers crossed that soon I'll be able to treble boot WebOS, Android and Ubuntu on my HP Touchpad.

    1. Re:Touchpad by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'll be able to treble boot

      if you do that, all your bass will belong to ubuntu, then!

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  4. Re:So, what's the verdict? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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)