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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
