Linux on the move
Just as Windows Mobile wasn’t Windows, and Apple’s iOS isn’t Mac OS, Android isn’t desktop Linux. That was the dream of Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch, a hybrid device that enables you to carry desktop Linux with you, but that functions equally well on a mobile device. Unfortunately, the reality of offering complex desktop software with its detailed toolkits that works on a mobile device never progressed far enough to be commercially successful. But, of course, as it was open source, that dream never quite died…