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Jono Bacon Talks About Ubuntu Phone Progress (Video)
Timothy Lord caught up with Ubuntu's Jono Bacon at OSCON and got a nice update on the state of the Ubuntu Phone, which Canonical first announced in January, 2013. Tim interviewed Jono about it on camera at CES in February. Look at the "Related Stories" attached to this intro and you'll see a bunch more Ubuntu phone stories. DISCLOSURE: At least two Slashdot editors currently run Ubuntu or Kubuntu, so we have at least a mild pro-Ubuntu bias. Bias or no, It's interesting to watch the Ubuntu phone development process, even as those who are satisfied with Android phone or iPhones, ask, "Why?" We could ask the same about the Firefox OS Phone, too. Maybe the most realistic answer in both cases is, "Because we could." But who knows? These new phone operating systems might turn out to be more useful than Android or iOS. We'll see.
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How shocking! You guys are total rebels!
Nothing about it is groundbreaking. Everything about it is either evolutionary spec bumps and cobbling together features from prior phones. Docking a phone and having it change GUIs or change to a desktop OS is not a Canonical innovation despite all their back patting.
That headline has to be one of the starkest attempts on Slashdot to bait potential readers for a story that I've seen for a very long time. Look at that headline! Linux and Bacon!! Why it's enough to .... mmmm ... bacon. Excuse me....
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The difference is, a Debian phone would probably be able to save camera images in every meaningful format to have existed since 1980 *EXCEPT* Jpeg unless you rebuilt the whole thing from scratch for some *unfathomably* stupid & pedantic reason (install ImageMagick under Debian sometime, then go through hours or days of pain getting Jpeg support to work, and you'll know what I'm talking about).