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I can hear Shuttleworth swearing right now.

Swearing? Don't you mean jubilating? Isn't Ubuntu on Samsung Galaxy phones exactly what he would want?

Who said it will be Ubuntu? If this is anything like past attempts at a Linux desktop running from a mobile phone, it will be a Samsung optimized (i.e. locked down) half baked chroot monstrosity with limited tools and locked to the phone's ancient, bastardized kernel with zero security updates from launch forward.

I think it would be awesome and amazing if I was completely wrong about all of that, but I'm not holding my breath. I'd rather wait for the Pyra to release and carry two devices than torture myself with an impossible dream.

Elsewhere in the thread I saw mentions of it running Ubuntu. I agree with you that it's unlikely that they'd give us any freedom, but if they did it'd be great.

There's a picture linked elsewhere in the thread of a Samsung device running Ubuntu at some convention.

Here's a photo of it running Ubuntu 16.04 at a Samsung booth with a 4.4. Kernel.

https://twitter.com/TizenHelper/status/920507238485233664

Thank you, that's refreshing to know they are supporting a major distro.

I spy a Virtual Box, no? The kernel looks too new for Android, as well.

I'm guessing users here don't want the emu penalty, just extend what's already there a bit.

1. That is the current Note8 kernel. 2. That virtualbox is the info string of the machine that compiled that kernel.

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