[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu operating system comes to Android smartphones

[Simon Greenwood]

Ah, that's very interesting - the customer site doesn't go into much detail
about the technology. I didn't even know the Atrix ran like that - quite
fancied one of those but they weren't taken up much in the UK and I believe
Motorola have killed off the line now.

s/


On 3 January 2013 12:10, Alan Bell <alanbell at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 03/01/13 10:49, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> The concept for Ubuntu on Android is essentially an Android phone with an
>> Ubuntu disk image stored on SD card/in memory that allows the phone to be
>> used as a boot device for a PC based system.
>>
> not really, it was demonstrated on a Motorola Atrix that had
> virtualisation built in and a webtop operating system running in the VM
> which was swapped out for Ubuntu. The Ubuntu image is an ARM image that is
> running on the phone processor alongside the android bit, with a hypervisor
> sorting them out. It had a docking station with USB and HDMI out so could
> drive a monitor from the phone directly. No PC involved.
>
> Alan.
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