Anyone have any luck just running straight Linux, Ubuntu, whatever on the gtab? Something where the sound works and is usable/stable?
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Sorry to say but for Linux being not very popular finding someone to take the time to do this is rare
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Yes, sort of...
There is both the chroot solution to running linux and there is a native rom for xubuntu. Unfortunately for both of these solutions the sound isn't working. Hopefully once the guys working on the honeycomb kernel get things working we will see some ports of Linux distros.
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There is both the chroot solution to running linux and there is a native rom for xubuntu. Unfortunately for both of these solutions the sound isn't working. Hopefully once the guys working on the honeycomb kernel get things working we will see some ports of Linux distros.
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Thats what i am hoping for...
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Hello,
I was just about to buy a cheap desktop to run ubuntu. However I thought now that my phone can be overclocked to 1.5 ghz. This makes it easily fast enough to run ubuntu when my hd2 can run ubuntu fast enough. So why couldnt we have ubuntu running on our sgs2 as well as running the phone os through kies or something similar? However we dont have the mhl cable cable but when it is released then webtop would be very useful and save people a lot of money. If you agree then please make a comment so hopefully developers will not feel like it is a waste of time developing it.
Thanks,
Billy
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I guess were not getting webtop ported then
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Even if somebody developed a webtop-esque environment for the SGS2, how would you control it? The one port would already be taken up by an mhl/hdmi cable and there is no Bluetooth HID profile.
I would like to see this, have seen videos of youtube of people running windows 7 / linux environments on their smartphones such as HTC HD2 & Nexus One, saw the article of the X10i getting some linux love and wouldn't mind trying it out as well.
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I guess were not getting webtop ported then
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You would need to find somebody to spend their time carrying out such a task .
Offer a $7000 reward somebody might .
jje
Take back WebTop?
I have managed to get part of this to work on my photon. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093790
any ideas on how we can start to expand so we can have a full functioning linux lapdock.
Shouldn't be too difficult for one of the devs to work on in free time now that Motorola released the source code for Webtop with instructions on how to compile from scratch.
http://sourceforge.net/motorola/moto...top/home/Home/
Wow. Total mind f**k. This is awesome...
Most of the linux stuff is way over my head but damn would I love to have a full installation so we can install linux programs like open office, pidgin, etc.
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The problem is that most the stuff in the Linux repository are compiled for x86 architecture. Even if we have a full blown linux setup, you won't be able to use all your favorite linux software.
bleh, i want a full arch distro in there
i went ahead and ordered a micro hdmi cable yesterday just so i could finally play with the webtop, it arrives today >.> (gutta love amazon primes 3.99 1 day shipping)
total cost was 8.98 that includes 1 day shipping
That certainly beats the thirty dollars sprint charges for the cable. I got mine from Amazon as well.
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Hey guys,
I am from the Bionic section but figuring that all the webtop hacks work between our phone, your phone and the Atrix, I setup a irc channel at #moto-webtop on freenode in hopes that we can pool our hacks together in one place for faster development.
Any updates on this?
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I saw this over in the Atrix forums with a list of working programs and was hoping someone would get it on the Photon. Very cool if this could work.
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The problem is that most the stuff in the Linux repository are compiled for x86 architecture. Even if we have a full blown linux setup, you won't be able to use all your favorite linux software.
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Almost all apps also have the ability to install from source. Yes, that's slow on an ARM device but it beats not having the app at all. Ubuntu is also putting a lot of effort into ARM lately as it is looking like ARM is going to replace x86 in the mobile space entirely.
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Yes I too was hoping to have a full linux version I pm the developer but they declined responded did nit know enough about the target device meaning the photon
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Linux mint on my photon would rock!
CCallahan said:
I saw this over in the Atrix forums with a list of working programs and was hoping someone would get it on the Photon. Very cool if this could work.
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(I always thought that Motorola was duping up and that Atrix had nothing to do with the Photon, as looks are the same nearly, but just a dupe. WRONG on that one.)
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here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1281528
I know that x86 project has many android OS's, but why hasn't android made it to the PC scene, that would be EPIC.!!!! Lol
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Google will grab that also , i think u gave great idea to them , so you will be the next CEO .... Lol
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Google will grab that also , i think u gave great idea to them , so you will be the next CEO .... Lol
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Lol if only..... (in dream world lol)
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I guess it will just be a new brench of linux distribution with android like ui
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An android desktop would be slower than a version like linux or windows and android just doesn't have the software of any desktop os so would be a poor choice to use as one.
For example say you want to convert a video or add subtitles to it, make a rom or do some developing etc. Bit hard on what is meant to be a mobile os. Next android version could change that but not anytime soon.
Dave
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The Linux 3.3 kernel is bringing in Android features. There is also the Ubuntu for Android project going on. I imagine if Android stays popular that someday you'll be able to easily run Android apps right in Linux. This would help out Linux as it would get some popular apps out there like Neflix and may make it more appealing to people.
At this point, an Android desktop ui wouldn't be of use to anyone, really. As stated before Android doesn't have any desktop applications, and it would likely be a few hundred mb's to get a fairly usable set of apps. Why go through the trouble, when you can just use a launcher like kde plasma?
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At this point, an Android desktop ui wouldn't be of use to anyone, really. As stated before Android doesn't have any desktop applications, and it would likely be a few hundred mb's to get a fairly usable set of apps. Why go through the trouble, when you can just use a launcher like kde plasma?
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What is kde plasma.?
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What is kde plasma.?
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... plasma is basically a ROM for actual linux.
its very pretty, has some cool features, and is featured in kubuntu
Another problem is that for all apps that use native arm code would not run on an x86 processor
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... plasma is basically a ROM for actual linux.
its very pretty, has some cool features, and is featured in kubuntu
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Nicer than Ubuntu.?
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Nicer than Ubuntu.?
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yes, ubuntu is enough if same marketplace here.
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... plasma is basically a ROM for actual linux.
its very pretty, has some cool features, and is featured in kubuntu
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No. Plasma is not basically a Read Only Image (ROM) of a system.
Plasma is the desktop shell of the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
Your android device is more of an actual Linux system than various systems you can run KDE on, as KDE is in not limited to systems running on top of a Linux kernel.
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No. Plasma is not basically a Read Only Image (ROM) of a system.
Plasma is the desktop shell of the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
Your android device is more of an actual Linux system than various systems you can run KDE on, as KDE is in not limited to systems running on top of a Linux kernel.
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I don't know the ins and outs... Sorry.I'm still rather new to Linux, just installed Ubuntu via wubi on my laptop.... Anyways, I just meant it more like "kde is the front end of the whole shebang, just like a ROM is" I guess I probably should've said launcher...
Sorry for any misconceptions
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I'm eagerly awaiting an android desktop environment. I've been using osx for a decade, and I'm getting a little sick of it. Windows is on my gaming machine, and always will be. Plus I can use that machine for heavy CPU stuff like video conversion. But I would love to switch to a smooth Androud environment for every-day use (web browsing, facebook, email, IM, etc).
In the same vein, my friend's daughter corrupted her netbook with viruses within about 2 weeks of getting it, despite anti-virus protection, etc. I offered to install Linux (Newborn) for her to try, which she did, and loved it. Now her only complaint is that she can't download cool apps like she can on her Android. That's another perfect Android scenario. Unfortunately Android x86 isn't compatible with half the hardware on the device (yet). But hopefully someday...
Is there any that we'll see Ubuntu custom roms? Or will i have to buy an Ubuntu Phone in order to experience it?
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Chances are quite high that we will. Also IIRC Ubuntu said that they will be making their OS compatible with many popular Android devices, so an official Ubuntu ROM can be flashed instead of an Android ROM.
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It's possible to see an Ubuntu ROM.
Also they said that they will release an Emulator & SDK for Ubuntu Phone Development until next week, so there is a big chance to see an official ROM released soon....
Ubuntu Phone Devs...Prepare!!!!!
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Sounds Awesome! A smart move by them would be to somehow make android apps compatible with it cuz it will take them a looooong time to get to the amount of apps android already has (if it ever will)...
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It's possible to see an Ubuntu ROM.
Also they said that they will release an Emulator & SDK for Ubuntu Phone Development until next week, so there is a big chance to see an official ROM released soon....
Ubuntu Phone Devs...Prepare!!!!!
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My body is ready
aryehzev said:
Sounds Awesome! A smart move by them would be to somehow make android apps compatible with it cuz it will take them a looooong time to get to the amount of apps android already has (if it ever will)...
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Im pretty sure you can get android apps to work in ubuntu if you use multiarch.
Ubuntu OS is meant to run on Android (multi-core devices) only I believe. So if you meet this requirement you will get this They also mentioned that other flavors of linux will be released. (Not supported by Ubuntu however)
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Is there any that we'll see Ubuntu custom roms? Or will i have to buy an Ubuntu Phone in order to experience it?
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If you are satisfied with running Ubuntu in parallel with Android, you can always make an Ubuntu ROM yourself, following my HOWTO in my signature.
Good assumption
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Chances are quite high that we will. Also IIRC Ubuntu said that they will be making their OS compatible with many popular Android devices, so an official Ubuntu ROM can be flashed instead of an Android ROM.
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I was just reviewing the release notes and it appears you are correct my friend.
Jayfla
would be nice
hope soon an alpha build would be uploaded:highfive:
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Is there any that we'll see Ubuntu custom roms? Or will i have to buy an Ubuntu Phone in order to experience it?
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i think it will need a couple of weeks untill ubuntu "custom roms" will be portet to non nexus devices, because teh only devices that r officially supportet by ubuntu phone are the nexus 4 and the galaxy nexus.
You should know that Ubuntu Phone needs high resources to run on any devices.
There r few Devs at the moment that know how to port this on any device, and most of this r the devs of Ubuntu itself.
I would not name Ubuntu Phone a custom rom because it's not based on Android => it's a mobile OS based on linux but not on android
The first UbuntuPhones will be selled much later there are no at the moment
Ubuntu phone ROMs are available for Nexus devices, and from what little I've read, if you can install CM10 you can install Ubuntu. I know we have some CM10 projects, but is anyone interested in trying to get Ubuntu phone to run on a Player?
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I dont have a linux system currently or any dev experience at all (other than making a "hello world" app)lol but im extremely interested in this project, im at least up for testing if necessary
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It is definitely possible however it hasn't been fully released yet, it would be quite difficult to port it at this stage.
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joemhewitt said:
It is definitely possible however it hasn't been fully released yet, it would be quite difficult to port it at this stage.
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Not really there is a really simple quide on the ubuntu site
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Not really there is a really simple quide on the ubuntu site
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If you find it simple then you port it. I don't find it simple.
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Just to give you guys a heads up.
The Ubuntu touch Dev preview is just a preview. Hardly anything works and it's just not made to be used right now. So I don't think the D's devs would waste their time on this.
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Yeah, I noticed that when I went back to the site for a closer look. Still, glad to see I'm not the only one interested.
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shahrukhraza said:
Just to give you guys a heads up.
The Ubuntu touch Dev preview is just a preview. Hardly anything works and it's just not made to be used right now. So I don't think the D's devs would waste their time on this.
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You are right if it was stable then i was building it but now im not gonna waste my time on something that is a little to much unstable now!