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Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21Posted Feb 18, 2013 14:00 UTC (Mon) by granquet (subscriber, #60931)Parent article: Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21
Ok ... it boots ubuntu ... but nothing says it will actually be able to place a phone call ... and that's what I'm interested to see ...
I'd be interested to see how they develop the whole telephony stack on closed modem hardware that often uses proprietary APIs and even non standard link layer drivers!
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Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21 Posted Feb 18, 2013 16:30 UTC (Mon) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378) [Link]
I thought they were building on top of the Android HAL.
Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21 Posted Feb 26, 2013 4:51 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]
Indeed.
At SCALE this weekend there was a talk about libhybris, which helps normal Linux apps run with Android drivers. The presenter mentioned Mer, Open WebOS, and Ubuntu Phone as contributing projects
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