Is Ubuntu Touch OS the same thing as Ubuntu for Android? It's not clear on their site.
Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner
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Re: Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner
#42I really wonder whether this is going to be a partnership with Xiaomi... after Hugo Barra went there from Google and made this quote "“If I do my job right, in a few years, the world will be talking about Xiaomi in the same way that they talk about Google and Apple today.”" It appears the company will be gearing up for a big smartphone release in 2014, which would also fit into the timelines here. Xiaomi tends to be…
I think/hope it will be some of those "chinese phones" which is quite interesting. Even the big ones of them like Huawei, make really good phones for good prices. Thats why I did not understand the hype about this Motorola thing for 200 bucks or something. Those china guys do this for quite a while and are now really pushing here (europe) in the market with really quality and competitive phones.
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Even developers may not need PCs for much longer...with the emergence of browser IDEs (my startup is working on one), especially for web development, PC becomes unnecessary...Even Microsoft has taken a baby step in bringing visual studio to the browser.
I can't develop on the road without internet and performance is tied to a browser? No thanks, I've got stuff to get done.
take the long view...it is possible to cache data in the browser..performance is a temporal issue, there is already major performance improvements happening in the browser...don't be so quick to shoot down the browser:)
Re: Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner
#44Is Ubuntu Touch OS the same thing as Ubuntu for Android? It's not clear on their site.
They are different. Ubuntu for Android is for running a desktop Ubuntu from a phone plugged into a monitor. Meanwhile Ubuntu Touch is the stand-alone mobile OS.
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It was discussed (in tech media) much more back then ("This is the year of Linux on the desktop!" used in a non-sarcastic manner), but you're right in that it is actually more viable today than it was then, mostly due to Microsoft shooting itself in both feet in the interim. It is still unlikely Linux will achieve any sort of mainstream adoption (for a few reasons, including Ubuntu following a very Microsoft-like pol…
Linux went mainstream ages ago. First with TiVo, now with Android. GNU/Linux + X11 + Gnome/KDE never went anywhere near mainstream, perhaps, but Linux sure as hell did.
AGain. Android. Is. Not. Linux.
When we talk about Linux as an OS, we don't talk about Linux as the kernel. This is very tiring to read this everytime. The Android userland has nothing to do with any of the Linux distros out there.
It's not Linux who went mainstream, it's Android userland. Try running Android applications in "non-Android" Linux for good fun.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux went mainstream ages ago. First with TiVo, now with Android. GNU/Linux + X11 + Gnome/KDE never went anywhere near mainstream, perhaps, but Linux sure as hell did.
AGain. Android. Is. Not. Linux. When we talk about Linux as an OS, we don't talk about Linux as the kernel. This is very tiring to read this everytime. The Android userland has nothing to do with any of the Linux distros out there. It's not Linux who went mainstream, it's Android userland. Try running Android applications in "non-Android" Linux for good fun.
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This might be far-fetched, but I wonder whether it is Lenovo. Just saying because Lenovo's PCs and Servers have excellent Ubuntu support.
My wild card guesses would be Lenovo and Dell (which, out of nowhere, made a pretty solid piece of hardware with the WP7 Venue Pro)
The Venue Pro and the contemporaneous Streak Android models were designed and manufactured for Dell by Qisda.
They were indeed very solid pieces of kit, being aimed at the corporate Latitude-laptop-buying market. My Streak 5 is still going strong after four years.
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#48"Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004, back in the day when Linux on the desktop was, if not exactly a contender, at least a more widely discussed alternative to Windows PCs than it is today." I feel like Linux is a better contender now then it was in 2004. Or am I just in a "developers tech savvy world" and viewing linux as a viable contender now compared to the typical layman?
It was discussed (in tech media) much more back then ("This is the year of Linux on the desktop!" used in a non-sarcastic manner), but you're right in that it is actually more viable today than it was then, mostly due to Microsoft shooting itself in both feet in the interim. It is still unlikely Linux will achieve any sort of mainstream adoption (for a few reasons, including Ubuntu following a very Microsoft-like pol…
as someone who uses Ubuntu as their main OS, I don't really find the OS that touch-centric. If anything, it's a lot more similar to OSX than Win8.
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#49Great news, I think once you get one others will follow if it's good enough.
I've been rooting for the Ubuntu Phone ever since they released that marketing video with the docking station. That really hit a nerve for me...gogo let me buy one in 2014 :)
This also means I'll not get a Nexus/Nexus 4 for xmas now (solely for Ubuntu stuff, I own another smartphone) because I'll just wait a bit. I was somewhat set on tinkering but thankfully there's other tinkering projects.
Re: Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner
#50Is Ubuntu Touch OS the same thing as Ubuntu for Android? It's not clear on their site.
They are different. Ubuntu for Android is for running a desktop Ubuntu from a phone plugged into a monitor. Meanwhile Ubuntu Touch is the stand-alone mobile OS.
Touch is both desktop and mobile. You have a full mobile OS, but plug it into a monitor and you have a full desktop OS.