Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by shmerl » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:21 PM UTC

cs702 wrote: post #12

As soon as Ubuntu Phone becomes stable enough for daily use, I will switch from Android to it. Coupled with a powerful processor and plenty of spare solid-state memory, Ubuntu Phone will allow me to walk around and travel with my entire desktop environment in my pocket -- including round-the-clock access to everything available in official and third-party Ubuntu repositories. (Have you ever needed access to an editor…

I'd rather go for Sailfish.

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

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Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by shmerl » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

motters wrote: post #39

Really I wouldn't want just a busybox terminal. I already have that on Android. It's ok, but has limited functionality. What I'd want would be the full range of typical GNU commands.

Sailfish will have normal coreutils which come from Mer repo.

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by shmerl » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:23 PM UTC

That's good. Terminal is a norm for regular mobile Linux, and not some exotic third party application like on Android.

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:28 PM UTC

Have the commented on whether they're going with Gecko or Webkit for the browser and embedded HTML views?

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by Andrex » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:30 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #37

Andrex wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first Ubuntu phone will be released in early 2014.

Any info on exactly which phone that might be?

It's probably still being made. They demo'd the phone at the announcement event on Galaxy Nexuses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtcj7FdIYA

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by nextparadigms » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #37

Andrex wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first Ubuntu phone will be released in early 2014.

Any info on exactly which phone that might be?

No info. But hopefully the first one will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and will be 64-bit (Cortex A57 and Cortex A53 class chips). It would be a mistake for them to start out with a 32 bit version, just to switch to the 64 but version months later or a year later.

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by nextparadigms » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

AlexeyBrin wrote: post #2

Having a Terminal application will make the Phone more appealing to coders and old school Linux users. I fail to see how this will make the Ubuntu Phone more appealing to the average user. EDIT: Apparently saying something that goes against the current on HN will start a shit storm (downvotes, obviously).

I agree with you. I want Ubuntu and Linux to succeed in having at least a significant part of the market, but I don't think it's possible, or not as fast as I would hope, if they keep prioritizing stuff for developers and stuff, when Linux is still considered confusing and hard to use by many "normal" people.

So they should really prioritize that part. Leave the developer/geeky stuff for later.

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by tombrossman » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

Yes, but will grep -R give me Amazon results? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found/...

Re: Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

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Post by balakk » Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

graue wrote: post #31

zokier wrote: post #13

It's bit funny/sad that today having a terminal in Linux distro is news.

That's not news. Having a terminal on your phone is news.

There were terminals on phones even a decade ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator