At a reunion of developers in Barcelona (Spain), Canonical has presented a simulator for the Android operating system Ubuntu Remix (the version of Ubuntu for netbooks). Instead of carrying around the Android operating system for NETBOOK, Canonical raises the option to run Android applications on a Linux kernel without changing simply using your emulator, it could be quite attractive to many manufacturers, in addition to allowing anyone to try Applications for Android without needing a smartphone that supports the operating system. The news has been issued by ArsTechnica, but I’ve heard it through the portal LinuxDevices.
Although this project is still in alpha stage, because the support of some key components of the system is not available, is a clear demonstration of the will of Canonical want to be part of the emerging secondary market for netbooks and smartphones. Recall that Canonical had already announced in November last year a version of Ubuntu for ARM7 processors, widely used in the brain as the smartphone and MID (Mobile Internet Devices).
If we start conspiracies, the rapid announcement of the Canonical simulator still in an experimental phase that would run applications in the Android NETBOOK just days after the operating system to Intel’s Moblin 2.0 was announced and atrayera so much interest from developers, partly due to its orientation to the market for netbooks, leaves much to ponder. Add to that Ubuntu is the OS that uses many of the engineers at Google, to the point that was rumored to have created an own distribution called Goobuntu, we could be a guideline on how to fight the battle for the OS of the future . On one side we would have to Wintel allies, with its offer 7 for Windows desktops / laptops and netbooks for Moblin, on the other side would have the shaft Google / Canonical to offer Ubuntu for its desktop / laptop / Android for smartphones and netbooks.
Only time will tell whether this is a legitimate race of all against all, or a battle between two great blocs competing market of the future.