• Google Nexus One Gets Ubuntu-ed

    Google Nexus One Gets Ubuntu-ed

    Techtree News Staff, Jul 09, 2010 1031 hrs IST

    Guide to port Ubuntu onto the Nexus One appears

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Bored with the same old stock version of Android on your Nexus One? Are you one of the many other Nexus One users who would like to see a different boot up screen on your phone, well help is here!


Geeky folks (one geeky folk, to be precise) from a rather ominously named blog called nexus one hacks has posted a rather longish video that can potentially help you port Ubuntu on to your highly capable handset without bricking it. Note that in this case, Ubuntu is being offered as a secondary boot option so that you may switch over to Android at the next boot should anything go wrong. Of course, as it is an OS meant for quite a different platform, you d come across a few things that simply won t work. But then that s excusable when you experience the pleasure of running an OS on a device that is not supposed to run it.





By the way, it hasn t been very long since the HD2 also got the Ubuntu treatment. What s with phones being ported to desktop OSes these days? 




 
Via: Engadget

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(4) Comments
Indian Art
,Bangalore, on Jul 13, 2010 09:40 AM
Ubuntu is so versatile, it can run on so many devices. Ubuntu and Android = terrific combo. Irresistable!
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panic
,asdfasdf, on Jul 09, 2010 06:43 PM
I would just erase this "news post" if I were you. He doesn't have ubuntu running on his phone, he has ubuntu running on his computer, and is then tapping into it via the phone.
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Samrat
,Noida, on Jul 11, 2010 09:36 PM
You have'nt really paid attention while watching this video now have you ? The os is ON the phone ; and he is using VNC to connect the os which is running as a seperate process. It is similar to using a VMware virtual machine.
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nunyabusiness
,nunyabusiness, on Jul 09, 2010 04:11 PM
wow.
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