Samsung’s Linux on Galaxy software will bring full-fledged Ubuntu desktop to your phone (with an external display)

From Liliputing


Samsung’s DeX dock lets you connect one of the company’s recent phones to an external display, mouse, and keyboard to use your phone like a desktop PC… assuming you’re comfortable with a desktop PC that runs Android.

But soon you may also be able to use your Android phone as a Linux PC. Samsung recently unveiled plans for “Linux on Galaxy,” promising that you’d be able to run a full-fledged Linux environment on a phone hooked up to a DeX dock.

Now the company has released a brief video that provides more details. One of those details? At least one of the Linux environments in question seems to be Ubuntu 16.04.

Read more: https://liliputing.com/2017/11/samsungs-linux-galaxy-software-will-bring-full-fledged-ubuntu-desktop-phone-external-display.html

Hmm I don't think I have an actual use for this but it's cool none the less. I guess maybe I could use some old phones like a rasberry pi.

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