Welcome to the future.

Linux Support
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Ladies, Lads. Welcome to the future. Ubuntu for Android.

What is it?

Ubuntu for Android is two separate operating systems installed into one device (i.e. Smartphone/Tablet) and both run at the same time.

How does it work?

It works like this. You’ll use the Android OS like you would use Android for a smartphone or tablet. Then when you “dock” your device, your PC becomes a fully fledged desktop, and works like Ubuntu normally but with full access to your android apps, contacts, messages, calls etc etc.

Want to see it in action?

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPFpNWJvJ4#ws
Ubuntu running on Android MWC 2012 same kernel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRoYlgOC9z0#ws
Ubuntu for Android at MWC - AndroidCentral.com

My favourite part is were they access the Windows 7 server and use Office on the cloud. That’s just genius!

:smiley:

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I was looking at an ubuntu installer on the android market yesterday but you needed to be rooted to use it.

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I think your the only Android user I know that isn’t rooted. D:

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No me too :-[ but not for long. don’t know if I should root now or wait for Sony to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich at the end of March. I don’t know if the upgrade will re-root.

Come on Mark! you will have to get an Andriod device to join the club. :wink:

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If I were you, just wait till ICC. You’ll still be able to root, but will most likely have to wait until someone at XDA finds a way, which shouldn’t take long hahaha.

I don’t have an Android either. I’m waiting until Samsung release the S3 of the Galaxy S. The specs are awesome. 2GB of RAM and a 1.2Ghz ARM processor. Pretty impressive stuff for a phone. Will also have a 12 mega-pixel camera and 64GB of internal storage with the ability to expand to a MicroSD. :smiley:

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I’m still fighting the urge :wink:

or

“Still stuck in the past”.

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I think with you being an old-timer… most likely stuck in the past. :stuck_out_tongue: ::slight_smile:

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Cheeky git … probably true, but you’re still a cheeky git :stuck_out_tongue:

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That I am. That I am. XD

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Bks,
Is they a way to root the s2 using LINUX?
I’ve been wanting to do it but don’t have a windross box anymore.
If not, is there a way to root gingerbread without a pc at all.
I rooted my sgs on 2.1 with z4root and run oclf.

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There is a way of rooting straight from the handset but it is too long and complicated for me to go through, also I have not done it. The latest edition of ‘Andriod Magazine’ shows you how. For some reason Tesco’s seem to be the only place selling it, though I am not sure about WH Smith. The latest edition has a ‘whiteish’ front to it.

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Honestly I’m not the best person to ask that. You’d be better off going to the Android forums and asking someone there. If not, you can always install Winshit in a VM and root it that way.