Thursday, September 5, 2013

Being able to run Ubuntu on phones with Android is already a long time, but until now the process was considerably more complicated, discouraging almost all potential candidates, except for a handful of power-users fearless.

A user of the Xda-Developers came up with a tip much simpler to do this, distribute a preconfigured image of Ubuntu 10.10 with LXDE and a set of applications, besides the good old apt, ready to install any of the packages compiled ARM processors available in the repositories:


his is a generic image that can be theoretically used on any device with root access. Users of devices with only 256 MB of RAM (like Milestone) will have performance problems, but the vast majority of devices with 512 MB should run it without major difficulties. The installation process is to copy the system image (3.5 GB) and the start up script to the same folder on the memory card ( see the thread for the download links). From there, open a terminal with root access, access the folder and run "sh ubuntu.sh" to shoot the script that starts the boot.

Ubuntu runs in the background, similar to the Motorola Atrix Laptop Mode and you connect to the server using a graphical VNC client to connect on port 5900 of local host. Using VNC causes the responsiveness of the system is not particularly good, and the weight of Ubuntu makes the battery life is brutally reduced, not to mention that the interface is not exactly optimized for use on phones. However, the satisfaction of running a working copy of Ubuntu without ever having to leave the Android will make many forget all the negative points. Needless to say that Ubuntu serves as a "laptop mode" for devices with HDMI output, just connect it to a TV and use a bluetooth keyboard.



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