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

[Alan Pope]

On 03/01/13 12:10, Alan Bell wrote:
> 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.
>

Not quite. There's no VM involved in Ubuntu for Android (or for that 
matter Ubuntu for Phones). The handset (not just the Motorola Atrix, the 
Galaxy Nexus was also demonstrated) boots into Android as normal. If you 
plug a dock in then it starts Ubuntu in a chroot, not a VM. There was 
also an awful lot of integration work done to connect the Ubuntu desktop 
and Android underneath. So for example you can sync contacts between 
Android Contacts app and your desktop mail client (like Thunderbird).

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
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