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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for AndroidHandset cohabitation: Ubuntu for AndroidPosted Feb 21, 2012 23:56 UTC (Tue) by smadu2 (subscriber, #54943)Parent article: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android
I wonder if using an Android tablet/phone connected to a monitor with a mouse and keyboard would give user much better experience than using a desktop OS running under 512 MB RAM (Ubuntu min requirement which IIRC requires atleast 1GB of RAM). Mobile applications are already tweaked to be resource friendly.
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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 0:28 UTC (Wed) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]
There are already quite a few “solutions“ that do this. They are all rather poor. As was stated in the article, Android is designed around a touch interface which doesn't easily translate to keyboard and mouse input
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:00 UTC (Wed) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Combining a physical keyboard and monitor (but no mouse) with a tablet is feasible (Bluetooth or USB work, even on an iPad, via the Camera Kit) and in fact quite a few iPad users do this, mostly when they want to actually write something significant.
I'm looking at this for someone who is finding even a locked down PC too complex (multiple tabs and windows create great confusion), and needs more of a kiosk/tablet type experience.
For a smartphone, Ubuntu for Android may make sense, but for tablets you might as well use the native tablet apps on the tablet screen, and just add a keyboard as needed.
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 3:29 UTC (Wed) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]
This is just the beginning. For a first start, it's ahead of the curve and probably of little practical use yet, but it won't be long before this will be the standard. Throw in a pocket projector for display and keyboard, or a HUD, or anything similar, and it will be the future. I for one will jump on this as fast as I can ... as soon as it can run standard Linux with utilities of my choice. Why carry around a laptop when my phone can do it all? Might need a bigger battery, but it still won't be near the size of a laptop.
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 10:47 UTC (Wed) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]
Actually, I want pool-able compute power, so that I can carry round my phone, plug it into a dock and use the same session and programs across a larger computer system. I think it's feasible at the moment with a VM solution where your hypervisor migrates the running VM from one host onto a larger host. Perhaps the tools to do this will flow down from the cloud computing setting.
K3n.
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 21:59 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
You can use NUMA for CPU/memory hotplug, no need for a VM.
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 23, 2012 22:57 UTC (Thu) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432) [Link]
This is exactly what I've been thinking for a few years now. But I want Debian and no Android. :)
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 4:33 UTC (Wed) by anthonywong (subscriber, #75023) [Link]
At this moment I can tell you that the answer is 'no', I have a dock with my Asus transformer prime and find that many android apps are just not designed to work with keyboard and mouse. Simple things like select text/copy and paste or various usual hotkeys are not implemented or don't work well.
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