Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android [LWN.net]

Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 3:29 UTC (Wed) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android by smadu2
Parent article: Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

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.

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Handset cohabitation: Ubuntu for Android

Posted Feb 22, 2012 10:47 UTC (Wed) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link] (1 responses)

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 (guest, #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 (guest, #65432) [Link]

This is exactly what I've been thinking for a few years now. But I want Debian and no Android. :)