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Ubuntu hits HTC’s Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe? (video)

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by IBM. 

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Ubuntu hits HTC's Touch Pro 2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe?

If there’s one thing we’re pretty sure Windows Phone 7 Series will be worse at than its Windows Mobile precursor it’s in the running of various and sundry other operating systems. We’ve seen Android running on seemingly every WinMo handset ever created and more recently Ubuntu has been receiving the mobile treatment. Last month it was on an Xperia X1, now an HTC Touch Pro2 is getting a taste. A modder who goes by the handle sebbo90 is the one responsible for this, running basically the same technique as used earlier on the X1. It looks quite easy: just download a 200MB zip, extract it to your phone, then run an exe within. A few moments later you’ll be in open source heaven, and, from what we can tell looking at the video below, it works remarkably well. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have to hit up eBay to find a used handset and get hacking.

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Ubuntu hits HTC’s Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe? (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 gets ported onto Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1

Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by IBM. 

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Not even a fortnight after we saw Android 2.0.1 slapped onto Sony Ericsson’s all-but-forgotten Xperia X1, along comes a port that makes the other look like child’s play. A dedicated coder over at XDA Developers has managed to stuff Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 onto an X1, and while the functionality is limited (as you’d expect), the amount of fun to be had is restrained only by your imagination (and available vacation time). Go on and peek that source link to join the discussion — but be warned, you’ll be sucking down over a gigabyte worth of data before the first installation process.

[Thanks, Jules]

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 gets ported onto Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A quick Windows 7 review

A quick Windows 7 review

Posted on 14. Feb, 2009 by IBM. 

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I am using windows since 1998 and honestly could not get away from it since then.  I know there are plenty of Linux flavours out there as well as pricey buck sucker OSX with its proprietary mac machines. Ubuntu is promising but still its not reached to a point where I can say that its [...]

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