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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for AndroidHandset cohabitation: Ubuntu for AndroidPosted Feb 22, 2012 9:32 UTC (Wed) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976)Parent article: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android
I'm suprised to see absolutely zero mention of the Motorola Atrix. A year and a month ago Motorola demoed exactly this concept at CES and shipped it two months later. It's commercial success wasn't as high as expected (understatement), but it shipped. Atrix 2 shipped 7 months later.
What Motorola was pitching back then was the "full" webbrowser experience on a phone. With a custom-built Firefox, you could access all your bookmarks, and maybe a bit more. How is it implemented ? A chroot, with a small linux distro running a never-updatable Firefox and the Android equivalent of Xephyr. No plans whatsoever for other apps.
What Canonical is doing is basically using Atrix hardware, and replacing Motorola's own (very) limited chroot linux distribution with an Ubuntu based one. I'm surprised it took so long. I'm surprised it wasn't Motorola's idea to go see disto vendors like Canonical.
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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 11:12 UTC (Wed) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
> I'm suprised to see absolutely zero mention of the Motorola Atrix.
Motorola's Webtop was mentioned in the comments, pretty early on. Is that the same thing as what you're talking about here?
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:02 UTC (Wed) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]
Yes, that's what I was talking about. It seems the "webtop" feature is now available on various Motorola handset.
Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:36 UTC (Wed) by andrewsomething (subscriber, #53527) [Link]
That "limited chroot linux distribution" of Motorola was Ubuntu.
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