Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones

Re:Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @06:04PM (#4999898)

Well, you're assuming they would need a new UI. You know what would be really nice to have on a phone if it didn't take any real effort to get it there? bash, ssh, nfs/sshfs/samba, etc.

I know the typical user isn't going to care, but I could see how it would be a big win for developers, and as we all know, "developers developers developers."

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Re:Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones by wmf on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @11:47PM (#5001066)

That didn't work out for Maemo. Is this time going to be different?

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Re:Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones by AnthonyMouse on Thursday January 03, 2013 @01:15AM (#5001239)

I don't know. But Maemo didn't also happen to be the most popular desktop Linux distribution. And it was effectively abandoned at birth by its creators, which I have a suspicion Canonical is not about to do.

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Re:Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones by regularfry on Thursday January 03, 2013 @03:52AM (#5001485)

Depends if it gets shackled to a completely schizophrenic manufacturer or not.

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Re:Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones by jstanley on Thursday January 03, 2013 @06:35AM (#5001903)

I use Maemo every day and I'd say it definitely worked out.

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Re:Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones by nathan_f77 on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @12:23AM (#5025020)

I love my jailbroken iPhone for this reason. Bash, SSH and SSHFS are really useful to have.

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