4 ms·
How to install Ubuntu 13.04 on your Android phone
- c54 13y agoHas anyone done this? What're your thoughts on the OS?
- Maxious 13y agoTo be clear (because I was wondering why all these commands were required), installing a version of Ubuntu on your phone just requires Complete Linux Installer http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/03/30/2107 http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/03/30/2107 (and busybox and loopback filesystem etc.) This post is specifically about creating a new image from scratch to use with the Complete Linux Installer rather than using the ones that are provided for download in the app.
- ibrahima 13y agoAlso, this has been possible since basically the first version of Android: http://www.saurik.com/id/10 http://www.saurik.com/id/10 . It's just a chroot jail, taking advantage of the fact that there are ARM versons of Debian/Ubuntu. Complete Linux Installer and other similar apps are nice because they save you the trouble of remembering a bunch of commands or downloading and running a script, but even they are doing nothing besides downloading an image and running a script. This is far from a usable experience. Notably, Android doesn't have an X server so you have to use VNC to get a GUI so a GUI is effectively useless. It's kind of handy to have proper GNU userland instead of Busybox sometimes and you can do silly things like run a local webserver and edit files using Emacs/vim/etc, but unless you're on a tablet with a keyboard attached somehow it's not practical at all. This has no relation to Ubuntu's efforts to make a proper port of Ubuntu to phones.
- medde 13y agohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install