Ultimate Edition Forum

My thoughts originally were more towards a partition scheme in relation to using sd as a switchable home. Mainly as a way to deal with memory and task killing. Still, if you look at many of the problems Linux faces..Android kind of...killed them....with a phone. Android as a desktop doesn't even suck that much. It does in VirtualBox but flies on X86 if you can get an older version.

You've suggested a highly ultilitarian scenario.
So are you saying that you want to swap disks for running dedicated apps???
Im guessing you want to swap sd cards on your smartphone -- running ubuntu derivatives ..

Canonical will let the canines out........soon.
Running ubuntu on ARM chips and GPU's made for android...and thereon hopefully installing Ultimate Edition on dual core phones is something yet to be seen.
Ubuntu will have to make the repositories compatible with arm tech ....means running and installing games off software-centre.

There is work with Ubuntu and HTC One ..but is it really all because they both have a one? The world wants to know. Ok, this is a horrible example.

Check out the rasbery pi or pandabox. You can install an os on one sd and another and just change them out when needed. Plus they are smaller than they look online...

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yes Raspberry pi is a nifty little gadget but it doesnt sell nor ship everywhere.
A hobbyist board for the tech savvy customer.
Anyways it doesn't quite have the horsepower for thrifty and powerfull apps

Xanayoshi wrote: I mean a switchable OS for seperate fuctions such as a gaming OS, an Office OS, an Audio OS, and a Video OS

That's quite like science fiction like in the matrix where you change the environment by loading a different programs...and by my understanding anything less than a dual/quad-core smartphone/phablet is pretty pathetic as every bit of hardware power counts.

Xanayoshi wrote: Making /home move would be cooler.

Maybe 5-6 years from now when the word internet is "dead" and cloud is the correct definition. Today you can share data between devices that can connect to a network, tomorrow you might be able to share hardware and computational resources if your currently used device lacks power--much like a quasi home-grid--and shuttling hardware resources irrespective of arch used or OS used.
Moving your /home...........its practically in a different league altogether. Might entail an advanced OS running a centralised virtual pool whose attributes and characteristics get shared at the users request-- much like skynet in Terminator.....wherein a single computer is useless....But in the linux world this is a thing of the past assuming all your computers are running them and are on the same network. Once you bring in a new device like android, windies, Mac etc ..its a dead end.

The biggest mistake of all .. that sd card only chugs along....reliable but you'd need something much blazing for read/write.

i am still wondering whether ARM would do an Intel or AMD by allowing you to build your own system from scratch.

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ultilitarian-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism

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