Thread: Ubuntu mobile architecture
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rcolistete is offline rcolistete
2013-02-24 , 19:39
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#13
Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
Just to say this over and over again. Ubuntu for Phone isn't real Ubuntu on the inside. In fact, it doesn't even run natively there's some chroot magic there.

So "it runs" but compatibility is near zero.
At least with Mer/Jolla linux applications need less customization to run properly and when they do, they run natively. NATIVELY!!!
Chrooted Ubuntu on current Android is a different experience due to lack of common graphics server and need to use VNC server/client. Ubuntu Touch running on top of some Android layers has the same graphical server, so maybe the chroot use will not have performance penalties (for example, Easy Debian Harmattan run very well and fast on Nokia N9/N950). In the following days there will be good benchmarks to see whether the performance of Ubuntu Touch is good or not :
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTMxMDU

The compatibility is not zero :
- many thousands of Ubuntu armhf packages are already available, those that don't depend on X11 and desktop GUI (Gtk, QtWidgets, WxWidgets, etc);
- few thousands of Qt4/QML softwares from Maemo 5 / MeeGo Harmattan / BlackBerry / Nemo Mobile / Plasma Active / etc can be ported to Qt5/QML.

I think both Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Phone/Tablet OS are interesting plataforms :
- Sailfish OS directly replacing Maemo 5 / MeeGo Harmattan;
- Ubuntu Phone/Tablet OS replacing Android, with almost all of the Linux features.
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