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- porl, on 05/29/2009, -1/+20yeah! how dare they provide a great operating system to you for free! bastards!
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wanker. - ritujaipur, on 05/29/2009, -1/+11I love UBUNTU
- ByteMeAHole, on 05/29/2009, -0/+10This is great news - much easier to develop apps that way... Not to mention the increased portability...
- PsychoBrat, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8For one, this kind of compatibility would make Ubuntu 9.04 the OS of choice for Android development.
Further, if a flavour of Ubuntu on netbooks can leverage stuff from the Android world, then more power to it. - rento, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6I get your point. But Android has the edge.. the google edge.
- PsychoBrat, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6"***** Ubuntu" ... {criticising someone, citing arrogance}
Got it. - rocketz, on 05/29/2009, -2/+7Maemo www.maemo.org
- theaceoffire, on 05/29/2009, -1/+5Now when companies make software (Adobe PDF maybe?) for the Android, it will auto-work on Ubuntu (And probably all other debian derivatives).
^_^ It gives a development platform that allows easy access to both phones and desktops, which might make it more attractive to software designers. - Phi01, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4needs a better article on this.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3Why would you want to run a bunch of apps designed for a phone?
- daveisfera, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1Definitely a much better idea than having Android be the OS on the netbook. I mean now you get the benefit of both worlds.
- Ryuzaki356647, on 05/29/2009, -3/+4Now, now Randall. You can't just run around ***** everything in sight, you might get the herpes, or even worse, the SWINE FLU!!!1
I agree with porl, Randall's a wanker. - PsychoBrat, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Dugg, but the more you can interoperate with, the better. And this works both ways: if they can achieve some useful level of compatibility, they'll be able to make "Karmic" (Ubuntu 9.10) the OS of choice for Android developers.
- Elranzer, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Sounds like someone forgot what site he was on...
- skyshark88, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1As more developers move to android now more of those benefits will come directly to our desktops. Dude a decent weather ap, alarm clock, flash games dude endless......gps come on give me more choices....... I am Linux.................
- heyimfromreddit, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0Heard from whom?
- warp99, on 05/29/2009, -1/+1This provides portability for your apps so you're not tied to a single device. If the platform become obsolete or there's a forced upgrade you don't have to repurchase them again. You also get some continuity since you can have the same experience on multiple devices without duplication. People are always complaining about the duplication of effort with the Linux platform. This solves some of those problems.
- cyberoidx, on 05/29/2009, -4/+3wow, awesome, BUT why would you run Android on Ubuntu?
Run Android on a notebook, its awesome cause you have speed.
Run Ubuntu on a notebook, you get the apps.
Bu running Android on Ubuntu, you just compromise speed and get lesser apps! - MrViklund, on 05/29/2009, -3/+1To what end??? Totally useless...
- 0tis, on 05/29/2009, -7/+4That's great, but... why?
- kaminix, on 05/29/2009, -4/+1What? From reading the blog linked in the article it sounds like they haven't got it to work yet?
- or3n, on 05/29/2009, -10/+7yo dawg, i herd u liek software so i put an OS in ur OS so you can compute while you compute
- Meep3D, on 05/29/2009, -7/+1Might as well run Windows, run Ubuntu in a VM and load Android on that. The worst of all worlds!
- btdown, on 05/29/2009, -8/+0Why would you want to run crappy mobile phone progs on your desktop? anyway I dont get why this is supposedly important.
- RandallMc, on 05/29/2009, -14/+1pfftt not great at all. In fact ubuntu hasn't done anything for the linux community. All ubuntu has created is arrogant users like yourself.
- RandallMc, on 05/29/2009, -32/+3***** Ubuntu
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