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

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 January 2013 13:15, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3 January 2013 10:49, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> 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.
>
> [1] Please do not top-quote.
>
> [2] Please also fact-check before you post. Your description is
> completely wrong. Ubuntu for Android is/was an alternative userland
> running on top of the Android kernel, to be used when the Android
> smartphone was docked into a device providing a keyboard, full-sized
> screen & a pointing device.
>
>
1. I was using the new Gmail reply interface that doesn't seem to allow
bottom quoting any more, wasn't sure if it did so I've switched it off.

2. I couldn't see anything that explains how Ubuntu for Android actually
works on the Ubuntu website apart from 'sharing the same kernel' and I'm
pleased to be corrected.

s/
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