Ubuntu Linux: Android's 2012 killer app?

[Bateluer]

Also, keep in mind that the demo is running on Tegra 2 of the Atrix. Should be much smoother on the next gen SoCs.

Very true. By the time this arrives, the standard SoCs will be Exynos 4412/5250, Tegra 3, OMAP4470, and OMAP5

 

[WelshBloke]

Very true. By the time this arrives, the standard SoCs will be Exynos 4412/5250, Tegra 3, OMAP4470, and OMAP5

You can see why phone manufacturers may want to jump on this. Phones are pretty much as fast as they need to be (if not faster) to do the regular stuff we do on them, this is a way for them to justify pumping out faster and newer hardware and for us to keep buying it. 🙂

 

[SP33Demon]

If it's responsive and zippy, then I wouldn't mind using it. However, I'd be more worried about security with traditional desktop apps' data being processed through my phone.

 

[obidamnkenobi]

Your next desktop could be a phone

Why carry two devices, when you could carry only one? Your next high-end smartphone has far more horsepower than you’ll need on a phone, and more than enough for a laptop.

what? No it doesn't! I have a laptop with a "real" low end processor; Zacate with 1.4 GHz and 3GB RAM, and that isn't powerful enough to run it slick enough for my tastes. But a phone is supposed to be? haha, no way! When phone's are as powerful as 2.5GHz i5 you can get back to me Canonical.

 

[Red Storm]

what? No it doesn't! I have a laptop with a "real" low end processor; Zacate with 1.4 GHz and 3GB RAM, and that isn't powerful enough to run it slick enough for my tastes. But a phone is supposed to be? haha, no way! When phone's are as powerful as 2.5GHz i5 you can get back to me Canonical.

Thankfully you don't need a 2.5GHz i5 to run Linux smoothly.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Thankfully you don't need a 2.5GHz i5 to run Linux smoothly.

This. Or more accurately: "Without programs like Photoshop and Office the need for raw desktop CPU power goes down greatly."

 

[obidamnkenobi]

This. Or more accurately: "Without programs like Photoshop and Office the need for raw desktop CPU power goes down greatly."

well just with Win 7 and 8-9 tabs in Chrome it's annoyingly slow, on dual core 1.4 GHz x86. I don't see how that will be bearable on dual core 1.5GHz ARM.

 

[Red Storm]

This. Or more accurately: "Without programs like Photoshop and Office the need for raw desktop CPU power goes down greatly."

Or even more accurately: "Without Windows the need for raw desktop CPU power goes down greatly." 😉

 

[arod]

Or even more accurately: "Without Windows the need for raw desktop CPU power goes down greatly." 😉

Seeing as windows 8 will run on arm that argument is out the window too by the time this gets around to happening.

It will be interesting to see if android and linux don't merge at some point.... seems full windows will eventually scale down to the phone which will be what this essentially is w/o the need to have 2 separate os's (and apple is starting to move this way too with ios/osx)

 

[obidamnkenobi]

Or even more accurately: "Without Windows the need for raw desktop CPU power goes down greatly." 😉

Last I used Ubuntu (10 or 11 I think) it was not that much faster or lighter than Win 7.

I'd rather have two devices, and OS, that do their thing well. Than some weird hybrid that does neither particularly well. Probably fun for the novelty, but not much use in practice