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    OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    wow, check the video this is crazy!

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/m...dock-hands-on/

    http://freekko.blogspot.com/2011/01/...phone-and.html

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/09/m...er-look-video/

    ps, am not sure if that's a modified ubuntu in that motorola atrix, but i spotted gnome!
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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    Basically this is a very small laptop. That is the kind of phone I could buy, all the other ones I don't like. They are way too small to run real applications and way too big for just a phone.

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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    I'm pretty sure that's nautilus i see, and gnome-panel at the top with the applications-places-system removed and replaced by some panel icons.

    Zero reason to believe I am looking at Ubuntu, though. In fact, I find that highly unlikely.

    I'm sure Fedora users are also looking at this and saying "OMG it looks like Fedora!"

    No... it looks a bit like gnome with a dock from where I am sitting. But it could still be any number of other alternatives, with any number of alternative bases. Gentoo, for all we know, or a FreeBSD port. This is what FreeBSD can look like, for example. Our only hint is Flash 10 and the phone's architecture.

    A nerd needs to get his or her hands on this thing and give us the real scoop.
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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    Awesome! Looks very like Ubuntu...

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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    My understanding is that it uses some kind of basic Gnome, Nautilus, and a desktop version of the phone's own web browser (or at least uses the phone's web browser information (history, bookmarks, etc.).

    Is there anything that says it uses Ubuntu specifically? Instead of just Android with some kind of Gnome-like layer on top?

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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    here it said it is a "customized version of linux", i think it's motorola's own thing:

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375273,00.asp

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    Amazing device, I'm in love. I wants one, with the desktop thing.
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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    heres a nexus one running ubuntu!

    http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-h...us-oneandroid/

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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    Wow...just wow. iPhone killer if they market this correctly. I WANT!!

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    Re: OMG, an android phone that turns into a pc and i think also has ubuntu!

    unreal!!! gnarly post!! TY!

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