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Reminds me of doing the Debian chroot on the Nokia N8x0. That's been around for quite awhile. It's nice to be able to apt-get whatever you need. It's prohibitiv

Reminds me of doing the Debian chroot on the Nokia N8x0. That's been around for quite awhile. It's nice to be able to apt-get whatever you need. It's prohibitively slow to use on a device from 2007 though and overclocking is a bit risky and drains the battery quickly. (Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I still use one of these things rather than the brand new 1.2 GHz dual core Android phone sitting next to it in my bag.) I don't really see this panning out unless Ubuntu runs on the mobile screen as well. I'd also hope that the curated experience can be replaced with, well, anything else. Ubuntu is increasingly becoming a forced experience and reconfiguring things is a waste of time. Configuring something to how you want to use it is also a lot more educational than trying to figure out where to disable the new configuration.

freehunter 15y ago
I use a chroot on my Touchpad to run Ubuntu with LXDE. It's... workable, but no where near "desktop" quality. The lack of a mouse kills it, and LXDE isn't really touch optimized. It's really nice to have around when there are apps you need to use that are run better (or easier) from a GUI, and the dual core 1.5Ghz processor with 1GB of RAM is sufficient to keep it running without hiccup (until I load Eclipse). With some low-end (or ARM) optimization, Ubuntu would rock the mobile productivity world.
- orbitingpluto 15y ago
  Have you tried eclim for 'mobile' development? http://eclim.org/ http://eclim.org/ Having a decent soft/hard keyboard is highly recommended. I played with this after having to push out an update connecting with VNC through an SSH tunnel to use Eclipse using the n810. It took ten times as long as it should have to fix two lines of code and build.
  - freehunter 15y ago
    That's interesting, hadn't seen it before. I do use Vim on my laptop, but the HP webOS keyboard has some funky modifier keys. I'm not sure if it would work properly. Oh well that's the beauty of free software, I'll download and give it a shot. Thanks!
- bergie 15y ago
  I have a Ubuntu chroot on my Transformer Prime. A bit painful on tablet mode, but feels great when you're using the keyboard dock. Desktop via VNC is quite laggy. Has anybody tried using the Android X11 app?

freehunter 15y ago

I use a chroot on my Touchpad to run Ubuntu with LXDE. It's... workable, but no where near "desktop" quality. The lack of a mouse kills it, and LXDE isn't really touch optimized. It's really nice to have around when there are apps you need to use that are run better (or easier) from a GUI, and the dual core 1.5Ghz processor with 1GB of RAM is sufficient to keep it running without hiccup (until I load Eclipse). With some low-end (or ARM) optimization, Ubuntu would rock the mobile productivity world.

orbitingpluto 15y ago
Have you tried eclim for 'mobile' development? http://eclim.org/ http://eclim.org/ Having a decent soft/hard keyboard is highly recommended. I played with this after having to push out an update connecting with VNC through an SSH tunnel to use Eclipse using the n810. It took ten times as long as it should have to fix two lines of code and build.
- freehunter 15y ago
  That's interesting, hadn't seen it before. I do use Vim on my laptop, but the HP webOS keyboard has some funky modifier keys. I'm not sure if it would work properly. Oh well that's the beauty of free software, I'll download and give it a shot. Thanks!
bergie 15y ago
I have a Ubuntu chroot on my Transformer Prime. A bit painful on tablet mode, but feels great when you're using the keyboard dock. Desktop via VNC is quite laggy. Has anybody tried using the Android X11 app?