I suppose, in theory, though, in the future, we may be able to install like... Ubuntu 9.04 on a phone, but maybe not the latest version, since it would be made to work with the latest computer tech. ------------------ http://andrewhays.net http://ashays.livejournal.com
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting idea. > Sure. I suppose you could. In fact, you can right now! This phone is a > LOT more powerful than a lot of the desktop computers I had up to > about a decade ago. > > Thing is this; > Your current full fledged desktop distro advances along with the state > of the art. Phone hardware, being smaller, will ALWAYS be several > steps behind, so when the time comes that your phone is as powerful as > your *current* desktop computer, the full fledged desktop distro won't > be much good to run on anything less than 5THz with 5TB of RAM... see > the problem? > > The other issue is the screen size. In fact, in my opinion, that is > the really big issue. Your desktop distro is optimized for a MUCH > larger screen. As painful as it would be to use Android as your > primary desktop OS, it would be MUCH MUCH MUCH worse to try to fit > openoffice + firefox concurrently within your phone's display. > > And FYI: C# no since that is MS/MONO crapola, but Java+PHP+etc., would > be fine within android almost as is... look up debian install for > 'droid. The main limitation there is RAM. > > On Sep 27, 7:09 am, Em <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm noticing that smartphones are becoming more powerful and will soon > > have the processing power of a laptop computer. When this happens > > wouldn't it be more suitable to have a fully-fledged OS on them? If I > > could have a phone with Ubuntu on it I could finally put all my Java, > > C#, PHP apps on there and not have to worry about re-writing them or > > waiting for someone to port them over. If people still prefer > > Android, thats great, but why can't it be part of the OS as a > > framework? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
