What is ubuntu??? - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Title says it all...so what is it?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ubuntu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
Ubuntu (pronounced /ʊˈbʊntuː/)[5][6] is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu ("humanity towards others").[7]
Ubuntu is designed primarily for desktop use, although netbook and server editions exist as well.[8] Web statistics suggest that Ubuntu's share of Linux desktop usage is about 50%,[9][10] and indicate upward-trending usage as a web server.[11] Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million users,[12] and it is considered by DistroWatch to be the most popular distribution of Linux.[13] (The second-most popular distribution, Linux Mint, is itself a derivative of Ubuntu.)
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It'll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players. And it comes with thousands of free apps.
and just so there is no confusion...
What is an operating system?
An operating system is what makes your computer work. The core program of any computer, it's designed to run all your programs and manage all your hardware and software. Other examples of operating systems include Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Android.

tl;dr - It's a free, zippy, flexible, open-source alternative to Windows.
But seriously, it wasn't that hard to Google.

And maybe I should of elaborated the ? A little more so I apologize for that.................but still fuk u negative ppl
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Thas all I wanted. Thanks
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Matlab for Android?

anyone knows if it exists or if someone are working on it?
I thinks that it would be a great app in android and there be possible (iphone has a version of it)
thanks everybody.
you make a very good job and make this SO better.
Why not ask the company that makes the software? It's not OSS so there's not much the community can do with it.
Wow...didn't know they had an app for iPhone. How much functionality does it have? I agree, your best bet would be to contact them...
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I don't think that the matlab iphone app was actually a scaled down mobile matlab. I'm pretty sure it just let you remote control matlab on a nearby computer. It would send some of the results back to your phone though. And there is an android app that does exactly that, Matlab Remote for Android.
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Have a look at this one:
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/matlab-remote-for-android_jcfl.html
thanks for replies, I 'll ask to company.
I 'll write news here.
thanks.
the matlab version on iphone can do the calulcation base stuff but it won't do any plot and those kind of graphical stuff
least not with the one i played around with a few months ago
Check out the app called Addi
There is a light-weight, java based, open source, matlab / octave clone app for Android called Addi. It is published already. Plotting is in the works, but a lot is already there.
I think there is an octave-like port in the works. (waiting on froyo to clean up a bit, I believe.)
Octave in traditional should give a lot of backend/normal functionality.
Command remotley Matlab with Matlab Commander
Although not a standalone app like Addi, if you are interested in remotely command Matlab on your PC you could try the newly released Matlab Commander.
Look for it in the Android Market.
-fc
As I was also searching for Matlab on android...
I found out that it would be possible to run linux on android!!!!
And my university also has the licenses for matlab on linux.
So does anyone this already tried?:
To run matlab in your linux on android?
I did not tried it yet, because your phone need to be rooted to run linux, and I did't do that because I didn't wanted because of warranty reasons. But if someone says that this is possible than I might want to root
grz.
the next problem will be getting the ARM version of the matlab
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If you're still looking for a Matlab client you might find Anoc interesting which is an Octave (=Matlab clone) editor.
Can't imagine how trying out programs in a phone is going to be comfortable.. Maybe tablet.. What if someone wants to use matlab functions in development.? Do you think there are specific libraries included?
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hey guys. i'm new into android developpment.
i have my senior project in my university (i'm a 5th year telecommuncations engineering student) and its about developping an android app that creates a custom watermark (location +date+ text entered by user) and affects it to an image then uploads it to a server, its supposed to be designed for bloggers and offshore journalists... i cant seem to get a good concept... how am i supposed to use matlab via my android? or i can just find a function that does the water mark and add it to my code?
would any one of you be kind enough to help me create a decent diagram for my app, to make it clearer?
thanks in advance

Are the ubuntu things ubuntu only?

I use Fedora,and I am instresed to use Ubuntu apps. Will it work?
Depending if your distro is debian base you shouldn't run in o much trouble.
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Yes, the installation method may differ on different flavors.
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maybe...really depends on the package in question.
Ubuntu is Debian based where Fedora is RPM based, so no it's not as easy as simply installing a package file directly. While they'll both work on each other if the packages are converted, it can or can't be complicated..some packages cater to the particular distros strengths specifically, but most are pretty interchangeable.
Alien is a tool that is used to convert either way, google that as well as the necessary commands. But the automatic routines can get kind of sloppy especially converting to rpm from debian versus the other way around
If you plan to do this on a regular basis I'd recommend you consider installing the fedora build tools as well as reading their wiki, they'll teach you to build rpm files
Other than that, really Ubuntu has catapulted debian and consequently the popularity of that has made it the target distribution for devs to cater to. But still, I've used both, as far as the important, use on a daily basis kinds of apps, I don't see where debian distros really have that many more apps than rpm based distros. It's kind of how the Android Market vs Apple App Store count becomes rather pointless, 200,000, 300,000 and more apps doesn't mean much when CowFart 3.0 is driving the numbers up.
Well fedora is based on redhat and ubuntu is debian based but if you're compiling from source there should be no issues
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You can compile apt-get on any flavor . I dislike rpms.
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Run your favorite Android apps on Windows

Saw this article on a Winu Newsletter the other day, if anyone is interested.
What if you want to go the other way around with emulation and run your favorite Android apps on your PC? Well, you can do that too. BlueStacks' App Player is a program that you install on XP, Vista or Windows 7 and then you can run Android apps on it. Over a million people downloaded and installed the alpha version, but the latest version (beta-1) runs many more apps and it's also a free download. Some major companies apparently see the potential for App Player to be a hit, as Qualcomm just recently joined Citrix, AMD and others as an investor in BlueStacks.
Check it out Here:
http://bluestacks.com/
This brings up an interesting idea. What if you ran windows arm on your tablet then used that to run this and used this to run windows arm again and so on. Appception?
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Android apps are java apps so theoretically multi-OS. Some of them need some specific Linux libraries to run. That's probably the goal of this app.
Like Wine in Linux that converts windowsAPI calls in Linux API calls..

[Q] Tablet ubuntu able to run edubuntu (kde etc)?

Hi all
Does anyone know if I can run kde-based software on the developer alpha of Ubuntu for tablets yet please? Not expecting reliability, just want to do some child user testing of the edubuntu suite on tablets.
Thanks
Chris
Currently you can't and probably neither in the near futur 'cause you need an X Server for that.
And there is no X server on ubuntu touch.
Huge thanks, that is really useful
Hempe said:
Currently you can't and probably neither in the near futur 'cause you need an X Server for that.
And there is no X server on ubuntu touch.
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After some research on your reply I've a couple questions. Does it mean the Unity interface doesn't need X-server? Or are they just using a temporary workaround until X-server is implemented?
And does this apply to both Ubuntu for Android, and Ubuntu for tablets?
Huge thanks
Having done some further research I've made my decision - thanks hugely for providing the missing link in my knowledge. What follows is my best interpretation of the rumours.
Currently in place of X-server is SurfaceFlinger, ("because X-server uses 30 yr old code" - Canonical). Canonical publicly dabbled with using Wayland until mid-Feb, then decided to create their own revamped display server from scratch, called Mir, which they seem to have been working on since mid last year, and are trying to get GPU vendors to support, written to run across all devices and to meet the needs of the Unity interface, and written in Qt/QML which is what they want native apps written in.
Bottom line for me, is that the technology is still right up there in the clouds and nowhere near decided enough to base my business strategy on. Also, Ubuntu for tablets seems a pretty thin version of Ubuntu anyway, so Edubuntu was never an option and I'm unlikely to be able to leverage much from Ubuntu's Open Source libraries anyway.
Like others, (see the comment on jonobacon.org below), I find it frustrating that the wealth of code written for Ubuntu is no longer usable, but I reckon this is probably necessary to squeeze the most out of every single CPU cycle and milliamp. Ubuntu for tablet is dead in the water if it kills the battery and performs worse than the established competitors.
Therefore all indications are I need to write for Android, keeping my options as open as possible to migrate. So it is now Titanium/UnityIDE versus HTML5, particularly assessing relative performance.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/canonical-announce-custom-display-server-mir-not-wayland-not-x
http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/02/21/five-ubuntu-touch-facts/ -- not the article but the comment starting "In that case, wouldn't it be better to port existing apps instead of...."
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/02/canonical-working-on-new-display-server
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwOTM
Just to clarify.
1. There are plans to make a X-Mir compatibility layer that will allow you to run programs that require an X-Server to work with mir.
2. Not all is lost at the moment it just looks that way.
Only Graphical Userinterfaces are affected. Your commandline tools and libraries don't need to be changed.
3. If you are looking for platform to write apps for, well there is worke being done to let you run your QML apps (intended for ubuntu touch) on android.
So if you choose to make QML apps they can be or will be able to run on linux, mac, windows and android
Wow, huge thanks, I missed that.
Does this mean EVERYTHING Ubuntu without a GUI will work? I want to run a NodeJS server. How likely is it that it will work perfectly now? How likely is it that it will work perfectly in the (nominally October 2013) release? (Sorry, just give me a keyword and I'll go off and do my research.)
Is Canonical planning to get X-Mir into the next ~Oct release?
My other query was whether QML on Android would perform as well. For others interested, it looks like it works directly with the Android SurfaceFlinger, bypassing the Dalvik VM, so performance should compare with native Java code.
Huge thanks once again
Chris
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkubKZaUt8
http://victorpalau.net/2013/01/25/ubuntu-qml-todo-android-vs-ubuntu/

Interface Android application with Termux on the same device

Greetings. This is my first post; if another forum would have been more appropriate, please let me know.
My team has developed some machine learning software on Linux, mostly in Python, and mostly in the area of image and speech processing. Much of our input comes from Android devices, which exchange data with the backend server. Due to latency and other issues, we would like to look at putting our machine learning software on the Android device itself. Termux looks like an interesting solution; perhaps you know of other Linux shell apps.
My main question is: For communications between the "real" Android app, typically a Java program developed with Android Studio, and the "Linux machine" on the device, is the Linux instance treated like another system, with its own IP? Or is there a way to communicate directly between, say a camera app on the phone and the Linux instance?
btw, I am aware that Android OS is a Linux variant, so perhaps Termux is running on the same kernel?
Thanks,
Sid

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