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With the release date of the Ubuntu phone Images announced, are any developers preparing to port it the the arc? I hope the spec can handle it as I would love Ubuntu to see my beloved Arc out!
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone/operators-and-oems
minimal specs are :512 mb -1 gb ram+
4-8GB eMMC + SD - we dont have enoth storge we have only 1 gb....
1ghz procesor +
Will ubuntu pwned android?
Hmmm short term answer will be NO
But long term, we wont know
what is eMMC?
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what is eMMC?
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It's internal storage
What if we use a mod like data2sd adatped for Ubuntu OS? Like the users of Asus Transformer, that used fast class 10 sd cards to dump all the system related files there? Will that be a possible solution?
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What if we use a mod like data2sd adatped for Ubuntu OS? Like the users of Asus Transformer, that used fast class 10 sd cards to dump all the system related files there? Will that be a possible solution?
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It depends. You don't need to port stuff like data2sd, the best solution would be to mount some directories at the sdcard which aren't immediatly needed at boot. I want it as well, but I'm still rather unexperienced with porting os'es to ARM devices. I do know something about linux.
For example: In my (basically unused) Ubuntu installation (I run Arch Linux as main OS) 75% of the total 2.5 GiB is used by the dir '/usr'. If we could mount that on the sdcard, 1 GB is plenty for the rest. Putting '/usr' on another partition/disk is not that uncommon in linux, so it should work. Also, if you download applications, most of it goes in /usr. (other directories we have to put on the sdcard are /opt (some kind of /usr) and /home ofcourse)
Space is no problem. One of the problems is that the Xperia Arc runs on an ARMv7 processor, and the Galaxy Nexus (which will receive Ubuntu Phone on 22 feb) is ARMv9.
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It depends. You don't need to port stuff like data2sd, the best solution would be to mount some directories at the sdcard which aren't immediatly needed at boot. I want it as well, but I'm still rather unexperienced with porting os'es to ARM devices. I do know something about linux.
For example: In my (basically unused) Ubuntu installation (I run Arch Linux as main OS) 75% of the total 2.5 GiB is used by the dir '/usr'. If we could mount that on the sdcard, 1 GB is plenty for the rest. Putting '/usr' on another partition/disk is not that uncommon in linux, so it should work. Also, if you download applications, most of it goes in /usr. (other directories we have to put on the sdcard are /opt (some kind of /usr) and /home ofcourse)
Space is no problem. One of the problems is that the Xperia Arc runs on an ARMv7 processor, and the Galaxy Nexus (which will receive Ubuntu Phone on 22 feb) is ARMv9.
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I heard that the processor isn't a big problem, as it should run on wide range of devices. Something about kernels or something...
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replicant101 said:
I heard that the processor isn't a big problem, as it should run on wide range of devices. Something about kernels or something...
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'Big' is relative of course. We will need to compile everything for ARMv7, because I assume Canonical won't have repositories for every architecture possible from the start. If Canonical releases ARMv7 stuff from the start, the main problem would be to get the different components to work, just like an Android ROM. Ubuntu Phone will use Android drivers they said, so hopefully it'll work.
If there's anyone that wants this on their Xperia Arc S and wants to help as well, please contact me or post something in this forum.
I will try my best to get this up and running on the Arc, but I can't promise anything. I'm not an experienced developer.
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'Big' is relative of course. We will need to compile everything for ARMv7, because I assume Canonical won't have repositories for every architecture possible from the start. If Canonical releases ARMv7 stuff from the start, the main problem would be to get the different components to work, just like an Android ROM. Ubuntu Phone will use Android drivers they said, so hopefully it'll work.
If there's anyone that wants this on their Xperia Arc S and wants to help as well, please contact me or post something in this forum.
I will try my best to get this up and running on the Arc, but I can't promise anything. I'm not an experienced developer.
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i am ready to help, although i dont have any experience with these kinds of developement.
i have an lt18i.
I think we are waiting on ubuntu to publish the wiki page about how to port it to other devices, once its up then we can have a crack at it
It is published. unfortunately i cant sync those HUGE sources because of low diskspace left (for compiling which has been taken up by other projects). hopefully as i clean up, you may expect a build soon. I said may, not will.
disc space isn't an issue over this end, how big is it?
Edit: 15GB, thats a big download.. D:
Around 15 gigs I think. With more needed for binary compiling. It says so in the guide
Im on a 40gb download limit a month, and I've already used most of it up :/
i would love to have a port of this
but unfortunatly, i am not able to help, as i do not know how to succesfully port
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I'm ready to help, I'm not s dev but would be willing to test though.
Roland
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Hello everyone, I want, just like you, Ubuntu Touch on my Xperia Arc (S). I'm willing to spend a lot of time on it, although I'm not an experienced developer, I think I might be able to do it. For the moment, I have no immediate plans to port it, I'm first trying to understand it better. I've already encountered a lot of possible problems, but thank Canonical that they have made Ubuntu Touch so easy to port. (based on CM 10.1, using the same display driver, ...)
I would like to have a list of people that want to help or test. I'm not a real fan of doing everything in a forum, so perhaps we could make a google project or so. What do you think?
As someone's who's just switched from a dual boot of linux mint / Windows 7. To Just Ubuntu, I would be interested if it were to come to our architecture, but I thought ubuntu needed dual core processors? And obviously HDMI won't be available.
Google Apps isn't native to ubuntu right? So what kind of ecosystem would we be moving to? Also there is no lockscreen which is a little concerning, but the device itself works like BlackBerrys new OS, which is nice.
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I would test it, as I'm no developer I can't do anything else
You might already know about the existence of the beautiful SailfishOS, what if it was possible to port it to our XPERIAS? It would look great on XS! Waiting for suggestions.
Wtf, QT based? MeeGo based? Last time I heard these words was when I was on symbian .
Personally I don't like the UI, and the android app compatibility
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Ahh c'mon dont be that agressive! It's just and experiment, Sailfish is open source and can be ported, it only depends on the devs, will they do it or not.
MY BAD!!!
I messed up the pages and posted my thread into wrong section!!! Please remove it, I wanted to post it in the Q&A.
Sorry Sorry Sorry....
Oooohhh yeah, I really love Meego and Sailfish would be one very nice addition to ever growing Xperia S ROM collection
Would love Dual-Boot it on my Xperia S
Hope some friendly dev port it to our Xperia S.
Would love to have this wonderful OS. This is what Nokia essentially could've had instead of that other OS. It looks very well designed and very thoughtfully done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxv7iXwIgno
If we can't get it ported, I'd at least love the launcher xD
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Would love to have this wonderful OS.
please can we have this
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please can we have this
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i dont think we ever get this bcoz we have only left 1 or two active developers for our xperia s.where other devices have plenty of roms, we just have one rom to play....Thanks to mickybart who is still making Xperia s alive....
In fact Sailfish OS is not 100% open source. All the UI is closed source.
Android compatibility is not supported on "custom" ROM too and it is not possible to buy a licence per device for now.
And last financial situation was not so great :/ (I hope that Jolla will survive and will be able to deliver a new phone in the future)
So that make interest more limited to work on it hardly.
I have already attempt to run SailfishOS and all sources to compile it are available under my github (https://github.com/mickybart/). The main issue is about hwcomposer implementation that is not working for our device. After long hours of troubleshooting I was not able to run the graphical stack. I forced clock initialization on the kernel too to avoid issues and it was better (no more kernel panic) but not enough to fix the problem. In fact the issue seems to be on the GPU driver because hwc initialization is done as it is done by SurfaceFlinger but it fails.
I have an experimental solution that permit me to run interface with SurfaceFlinger. So it is supposed to be possible to adapt lipstick (wayland compositor used by mer-hybris/SailfishOS) to use SurfaceFlinger but I chose to work on plasma mobile for now.
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In fact Sailfish OS is not 100% open source. All the UI is closed source.
Android compatibility is not supported on "custom" ROM too and it is not possible to buy a licence per device for now.
And last financial situation was not so great :/ (I hope that Jolla will survive and will be able to deliver a new phone in the future)
So that make interest more limited to work on it hardly.
I have already attempt to run SailfishOS and all sources to compile it are available under my github (https://github.com/mickybart/). The main issue is about hwcomposer implementation that is not working for our device. After long hours of troubleshooting I was not able to run the graphical stack. I forced clock initialization on the kernel too to avoid issues and it was better (no more kernel panic) but not enough to fix the problem. In fact the issue seems to be on the GPU driver because hwc initialization is done as it is done by SurfaceFlinger but it fails.
I have an experimental solution that permit me to run interface with SurfaceFlinger. So it is supposed to be possible to adapt lipstick (wayland compositor used by mer-hybris/SailfishOS) to use SurfaceFlinger but I chose to work on plasma mobile for now.
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Hello sir...I am a great fan of yours and it worths...I follow your git everyday..I saw you are working on a project named hybris 5.1.1...can you tell me something about it???asking for my curiosity...sorry for my bad English
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Hello sir...I am a great fan of yours and it worths...I follow your git everyday..I saw you are working on a project named hybris 5.1.1...can you tell me something about it???asking for my curiosity...sorry for my bad English
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In fact the project is gnulinux_support (that include hybris with gnulinux-support-5.1 branch). For now I'm testing and writing the documentation to officially release this new project.
I will create an official xda project really soon (this week or next one if everything is good ! Take me longer time than expected !). The state of the project is very good but it will be reserved for developers to start.
You will know more soon
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In fact the project is gnulinux_support (that include hybris with gnulinux-support-5.1 branch). For now I'm testing and writing the documentation to officially release this new project.
I will create an official xda project really soon (this week or next one if everything is good ! Take me longer time than expected !). The state of the project is very good but it will be reserved for developers to start.
You will know more soon
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Thank u sir for your reply
Hello.
My name is Mario. I'm a computer hobbyist. Recently I've bought the nexus 10. This project wants to virtualize android with kvm on top of ubuntu touch on the nexus 10. Someone has already did the most of the job,as you can see here :
http://www.virtualopensystems.com/media/chromebook/chromebook.pdf
they have used the arm chromebook,but IF I don't get wrong,it uses the same board,the exynos 5 with 2 arm cpu's. The only difference between the arm chromebook and the nexus 10 is the boot procedure. Virtual Open System did a proof of concept. They did not complete the project. In particular these features are missing :
Guest Sound support
A way to assign USB devices to the guest
Hardware acceleration
chroot integration in the default OS to achieve better integration with ubuntu
so the project that I would like to start wants to add these features to what virtual open systems did right now.
I know that usually Android run as Host OS and Ubuntu as guest os,but I think that Android is not a secure / powerful OS as Linux. I don't want to use it as HOST OS,but only as GUEST. Tell me what's your point of view. Thanks.
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Android and Ubuntu Touch on the Nexus 10 run together, a Kernel for the Google Nexus 10
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marietto2008
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Status: Testing
Created 2013-11-26
Last Updated 2013-12-05
I've been wanting to a Linux tablet for years. I'm actually holding out for the Microsoft Surface Pro to liquidate stock for $300 or so if that ever happens.
The problem I see with Linux running on the Nexus 10 is its 2 GB of memory, especially for any type of VM you want to run.
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I've been wanting to a Linux tablet for years. I'm actually holding out for the Microsoft Surface Pro to liquidate stock for $300 or so if that ever happens.
The problem I see with Linux running on the Nexus 10 is its 2 GB of memory, especially for any type of VM you want to run.
But yes, this project of running Linux out right on the tablet could work very well with a stripped down OS so not to take up too much room.
I really wished Google put a memory card on these things.
Looks like someone from Samsung has done something like this with the Xen port for ARM
http://vimeo.com/78023395
Technically speaking,which kind of way do you like between the multi-rom or the virtualization solution ? And what's the best virtualization tool between KVM and XEN ?
Someone is interested to work on this project ? It could be posted on Indiegogo..
http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian
d me going there with that headline,
im keen to try ubuntu touch on my N10,
I would think ( im not a android or linux , or any other kind of prog/ eng.) that a dualboot or multirom solution would be better than virtualisation, esp on low resource machine. each rom runs on its own so no sharing of common resources?, just my uneducated guess, but Ill keep an eye on this thread,
like to see what the final, or working solution is.
great efforts , thanks
stuie
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d me going there with that headline,
im keen to try ubuntu touch on my N10,
I would think ( im not a android or linux , or any other kind of prog/ eng.) that a dualboot or multirom solution would be better than virtualisation, esp on low resource machine. each rom runs on its own so no sharing of common resources?, just my uneducated guess, but Ill keep an eye on this thread,
like to see what the final, or working solution is.
great efforts , thanks
stuie
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I'll save you the trouble... You flash the entire ROM over your firmware (don't worry, you can revert back to Android by flashing the firmware back).
When I ran Ubuntu Touch on my Next 10, it was... HORRIBLE. The extreme lag and performance issues made it utterly useless. Completely useless. This was about 6 months ago.
Went back and am running latest Android now, nice and speedy.
Tried Ubuntu touch as well. If Touch had been a full x86 Ubuntu experience, maybe I'd use it for a while. But it's Ubuntu with even less software than regular Ubuntu/Lunux.
So back to Android. ��
If you want to try it you can follow this guide:
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/sta...installing-ubuntu-for-devices/#install-ubuntu
We already have the ability to boot multiple ROMs and plenty of kernels available. Ubuntu Touch is not being built because it is based off of CM10 (4.2) which flo/deb never ran and as a result are unsupported. However, what is stopping devs from using the kernels available to boot full ARM versions of ubuntu, debian, arch or gentoo? I've looked at the nexus 7 2012 and there has been plenty of such development, even sooner after its release. Is this nexus doomed to solely run android due to the qualcomm processor it possesses?
Also, please note, I'm not looking to run linux INSIDE android (chroot method). That is possible on just about every android device known to mankind and nothing special. I want to run linux as a ROM. This has been previously accomplished on popular tablets like the nexus 7 2012, note 10.1 and the transformer prime, just to name a few.
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Do you have any links regarding a native linux implementation on the 1st gen Nexus 7? I'd like to look into it, sounds interesting.
I found two separate attempts to bring Linux on this tablet:
wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Community_Workspace/Tegra3/Nexus7 and github.com/Bogdacutu/flo-Fedora
None of them are successful yet - I guess display (or any other debug output method) is a blocker here. AFAIK Tassadar has managed to make an UART cable - delta.fratler.de/68-raiders-lost-uart/
Managed to run Bogdancutu's flo-Fedora (updated to F20 though), but I cannot get the screen to work. Any ideas/tips?
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I found two separate attempts to bring Linux on this tablet:
wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Community_Workspace/Tegra3/Nexus7 and github.com/Bogdacutu/flo-Fedora
None of them are successful yet - I guess display (or any other debug output method) is a blocker here. AFAIK Tassadar has managed to make an UART cable - delta.fratler.de/68-raiders-lost-uart/
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The first is for the original nexus 7, seeing how it is Tegra3.
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Managed to run Bogdancutu's flo-Fedora (updated to F20 though), but I cannot get the screen to work. Any ideas/tips?
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Mind posting a link? I can't find the thread on xda.
NVM: https://github.com/Bogdacutu/flo-Fedora
Still chroot, not exactly native, but the screen is run through X11 as opposed to a vnc server. Pretty good actually.
Here's Ubuntu on the 1st gen Nexus 7:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation
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Here's Ubuntu on the 1st gen Nexus 7:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation
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Really not necessary, the nexus 7 2012 forum here on xda and a google search will yield that. Completely different SoC and other peripherals don't let the tutorials carry over.
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The first is for the original nexus 7, seeing how it is Tegra3.
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There is a small addition there that flo's version boots but display doesn't work. I've also found attempts to run graphics via libhybris (build.merproject.org/project/packages?project=home%3Acxl000%3Anemo%3Adevel%3Ahw%3Agoogle%3Amsm%3Anexus7) but I never managed to try Mer.
Hi guys.
I managed to get the basic linux kernel v3.16-rc6 to work on the Nexus 7 2013 (WiFi).
Turns out the debug cable I originally used (delta.fratler.de/154-nexus-7-uart-unlocked/) works perfectly fine.
I use the qcom_defconfig as base and will work my way up from there, creating a n7-device tree.
In order to get linux to talk to you via the serial port, you'll need a couple of fixups though.
Namely:
codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/kernel/skales/plain/atag-fix/fixup.S – this is due to the fact that the N7 bootloader hands over the wrong memory-mapping in its ATAGS (shifted by 2 MB)
Compile it with
gcc -c fixup.S -o fixup.o; objcopy -O binary fixup.o fixup.bin
Then merge the fixup, kernel and the dtb:
cat fixup.bin zImage dtb > bootImage
Next up, to prevent the console from freezing, you need to grab this file from the qcom repo over at linaro:
git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git/commit/a751c4d71e792784f4d9f399bfda04007a6f403d
Note that the UART-port has been renamed from ttyHSL to ttyMSM.
Here's the kernel-config I used (based on qcom_defconfig): paste.debian.net/113411/
Once the dts resembles something remotely useable, I'll post it as well
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I managed to get the basic linux kernel v3.16-rc6 to work on the Nexus 7 2013 (WiFi).
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This is great! Did you manage to have ssh there at least? I don't have UART cabel, but I'd really love to help you with this
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This is great! Did you manage to have ssh there at least? I don't have UART cabel, but I'd really love to help you with this
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Unfortunately not yet.
I'm currently having some issues getting USB to work. The patch to implement the QCOM PMIC8921 extender's GPIO ports has only been submitted 2 weeks ago and I have yet to figure out how to implement it in the devicetree - If anyone can give me some pointers to that...
I'll set up a github repo for the linaro kernel with the Nexus 7 dts this week. Once I have some rudimentary support (USB, eMMC, WLAN), I'll start upstreaming.
Still no real progress but things on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list have been moving pretty quickly so I hope we'll have a decent patch set within the next two weeks or so.
In the meantime, I wrote up a basic guide to get things started if you're interested in porting a vanilla kernel to the N7:
delta.fratler.de/168-nexus-7-kernel/
Trying Complete Linux Installer from Play Store made me personally conclude any conventional desktop Linux UI at the moment is unfit for using on gadget display. But I wonder what takes so long to simply wireless mirror screen dual view and extended desktop to dlna, Chromecast, etc 3rd party display. Phone/tablet can then function as desktop/laptop too with ultra mobile workstation also.
Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 (2013), iPad Mini Retina of Moto G Lte
i found this but havent been able to follow the instructions fully throught
https://github.com/crondog/arch-flo
Would be awesome if anybody made a mrom out of this etc so the development could continue faster/easyer
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We already have the ability to boot multiple ROMs and plenty of kernels available. Ubuntu Touch is not being built because it is based off of CM10 (4.2) which flo/deb never ran and as a result are unsupported. However, what is stopping devs from using the kernels available to boot full ARM versions of ubuntu, debian, arch or gentoo? I've looked at the nexus 7 2012 and there has been plenty of such development, even sooner after its release. Is this nexus doomed to solely run android due to the qualcomm processor it possesses?
Also, please note, I'm not looking to run linux INSIDE android (chroot method). That is possible on just about every android device known to mankind and nothing special. I want to run linux as a ROM. This has been previously accomplished on popular tablets like the nexus 7 2012, note 10.1 and the transformer prime, just to name a few.
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Ubuntu Touch Is Available.
See MultiROM Manager.
Is there any dev out there that would be interested in bringing Ubuntu touch to our ZF2?
Quite an interesting OS and seems like it would fit in great with the x86 CPU we have available to us.
I know there are other threads requesting this no dev responded to it saying if it would be feasible or impossible to do so.
I like to do it , but you know our device is a x86-64 and ubuntu touch is a project for ARM arch , I'll check it if there is any chance !
but if you want linux in your device you can use kali nethunter , that i am makeing flashable zip for zf2 with say99's help and support .
it is based on debian just like ubuntu ...
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I like to do it , but you know our device is a x86-64 and ubuntu touch is a project for ARM arch , I'll check it if there is any chance !
but if you want linux in your device you can use kali nethunter , that i am makeing flashable zip for zf2 with say99's help and support .
it is based on debian just like ubuntu ...
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Thank you as long as it is attempted, I'll be happy.
Yes I have tried many of those other methods for running Linux but none work for the 16gb Ze551ml as apparently Linux deploy can't use the external SD card.
I'll definitely try out yours when it is ready!
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Thank you as long as it is attempted, I'll be happy.
Yes I have tried many of those other methods for running Linux but none work for the 16gb Ze551ml as apparently Linux deploy can't use the external SD card.
I'll definitely try out yours when it is ready!
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now you can try it , the flashable zip file are here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/development/kali-nethunter-t3329426/post65669770#post65669770
Christopher876 said:
Is there any dev out there that would be interested in bringing Ubuntu touch to our ZF2?
Quite an interesting OS and seems like it would fit in great with the x86 CPU we have available to us.
I know there are other threads requesting this no dev responded to it saying if it would be feasible or impossible to do so.
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I know alot of you guys want ubuntu touch on the zenfone just for something different but its not worth it considering all the work that would have to be put into it just "to try something new". ubuntu touch is miles behind android
All other ubuntu phones are ARM based - if you'd try, this would be the first one on an intel chipset. I imagine there are a lot of things broken in the x64 version of the code since no one's really using it. If you do, please do check out ubports.com which has other open source ports of android device.
Personally, i own a BQ Aquarius 4.5 with ubuntu touch because i was interested enough to want to play around with it. It is a functional OS, but it lags heavily in apps. The OS is also very tightly screwed down - every app must run in user space with only write access to the user home. Interaction is limited through the ubuntu service layer, which means its quite difficult to code an app for say - whatsapp - because the service layer must sit in between you and the whatsapp API.
The major promise of Ubuntu is the convergent future - where the phone or tablet can actually run the full ubuntu API with access to all regular ubuntu apps, either old (sandboxed in lxc/lxd) or new (running natively). The zenfone can definately run both but it lacks the usb c and mhl connectivity to drive a screen directly; perhaps when miracast is implemented properly in ubuntu OS it may become interesting to port. Until then, I'm not sure its worth the effort and all the x64 bughunting.
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I know alot of you guys want ubuntu touch on the zenfone just for something different but its not worth it considering all the work that would have to be put into it just "to try something new". ubuntu touch is miles behind android
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Rogier Oudshoorn said:
All other ubuntu phones are ARM based - if you'd try, this would be the first one on an intel chipset. I imagine there are a lot of things broken in the x64 version of the code since no one's really using it. If you do, please do check out ubports.com which has other open source ports of android device.
Personally, i own a BQ Aquarius 4.5 with ubuntu touch because i was interested enough to want to play around with it. It is a functional OS, but it lags heavily in apps. The OS is also very tightly screwed down - every app must run in user space with only write access to the user home. Interaction is limited through the ubuntu service layer, which means its quite difficult to code an app for say - whatsapp - because the service layer must sit in between you and the whatsapp API.
The major promise of Ubuntu is the convergent future - where the phone or tablet can actually run the full ubuntu API with access to all regular ubuntu apps, either old (sandboxed in lxc/lxd) or new (running natively). The zenfone can definately run both but it lacks the usb c and mhl connectivity to drive a screen directly; perhaps when miracast is implemented properly in ubuntu OS it may become interesting to port. Until then, I'm not sure its worth the effort and all the x64 bughunting.
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I see. From these two answers it just isn't worth the work so I think just waiting is the best option and seeing if Ubuntu Touch develops more and if they support x86.
Never understood that this was the reason and I had always thought that it would be logical for Ubuntu Touch to support x86 rather than ARM. Thanks for these answers and clearing things up!
You're right that it might have made sense for Canonical to build on top of x64 primarily, but i believe they started the project in 2013 before there were any intel based phones on the market. Perhaps if ASUS and intel were quicker, it would have been