Ubuntu Ported to Samsung Galaxy S II

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Before the Galaxy S II is even available in the U.S. it’s already been rooted, overclocked, and the first few custom ROMs are coming up as well.  We have seen a few users with Ubuntu on the original Galaxy S (while hard to use) for a while now.  So now it has been ported to the Galaxy S II (who would think that would have taken longer).

Currently Ubuntu on the Galaxy S II works as a proof-of-concept, but it has a few major bugs:

• It’s not running natively, only through VNC
• Resolution is to high
• The performance isn’t particularly good
• Stability issues
• LXDE (Unity or Gnome3 preferred)
• No browser (yet, Firefox doesn’t run)

Android Guys have promised a beta version soon.

 

You can see a few pictures and the original article over at: http://www.androidguys.com/2011/05/26/ubuntu-ported-galaxy-ii/

 

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