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Ubuntu Linux smarthphone coming this year?
superboyac:
http://www.crn.com/news/mobility/240145445/ubuntu-linux-smartphone-coming-this-year.htm
Could this be as exciting as it sounds? Please!
f0dder:
I really don't see the need, business case, user interest (apart from a few hardcore geeks), or anything else, really.
Android is already running a linux kernel, and android apps can include native code. I don't really see why you'd want something that's probably closer to a normal distro on neither phones (perhaps on tablets, but even there I'm not convinced). If it runs traditional linux applications with no sandboxing, it's going to be a security nightmare, and if it adds sandboxing it'll be duplicating android functionality.
So, what's the deal? Sell it to me.
KynloStephen66515:
Ubuntu Linux smarthphone coming this year?
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Smarthphone?
superboyac:
Ubuntu Linux smarthphone coming this year?
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Smarthphone?
-Stephen66515 (January 02, 2013, 05:59 PM)
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yeth!!
superboyac:
I really don't see the need, business case, user interest (apart from a few hardcore geeks), or anything else, really.
Android is already running a linux kernel, and android apps can include native code. I don't really see why you'd want something that's probably closer to a normal distro on neither phones (perhaps on tablets, but even there I'm not convinced). If it runs traditional linux applications with no sandboxing, it's going to be a security nightmare, and if it adds sandboxing it'll be duplicating android functionality.
So, what's the deal? Sell it to me.
-f0dder (January 02, 2013, 05:55 PM)
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Anything to make it more hacker friendly. anything to divorce the marriage between phone models and carrier. more choices, more software/apps, more options. ability for smaller companies to build their own cellphones, and not just the huge brands like apple, ms, samsung, htc. how about a ubuntu phone made by kingston, that i take to at&t and activate. stuff like that.
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