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Not that I know of but I have no idea why not. Ubuntu for Android was a project started 2 or 3 years ago which was based off of the concept of being able to boo
by 83457 11y ago
Not that I know of but I have no idea why not. Ubuntu for Android was a project started 2 or 3 years ago which was based off of the concept of being able to boot up Ubuntu from a powerful phone. The Ubuntu Phone is supposed to have desktop interface but I think they are still working on it. I think some phones do provide a "desktop android" type display when you connect to monitor but haven't seen much about that lately. Not to say it is easy but I'm surprised this isn't widely available yet as I expect many tech people at least would take advantage of it.
- jerf 11y ago@&#&!@)(@'in phones is what. Specifically the cellular radio components; put a cell radio in a device and suddenly you are hardcore rammed into proprietary software land. The halo seems to extend even to tablets that don't hook up the cell network since all the hardware still sources from phone-land. I'd rather have open software slowly and even ungracefully get phone functionality merged into it, but that's basically not possible, so instead we've been forced to go the other way, laboriously, slowly, and largely unsuccessfully trying to open hardware and software up that is starting from a position of totally proprietary. This is one of the most frustrating development to me of the past ten years. We've made huge strides towards proprietary, locked-down hardware, because of cell phones, even in systems that don't use them. I'd love something like the Ubuntu phone, at least in principle, but it's swimming upstream against some very strong currents.