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Samsung to Give Linux Desktop Experience to Smartphone Users

posted by takyon on Sunday October 29 2017, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-linux-down-by-the-docks dept.

driven writes:

Samsung has announced a new app called Linux on Galaxy that works with its DeX docking station to bring a full Linux desktop experience to Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphone users.

Comments from IDC sounded skeptical saying the concept is "interesting at best", but "the No. 1 challenge is that there is no public infrastructure for where you can dock your phone, other than in your home or office... Where you really would like to have that is at a hotel, at an airport, etc."

Samsung is touting their DeX environment as "supremely better than all the earlier attempts to have a smartphone docking into a big screen".

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ledow on Sunday October 29 2017, @09:03PM (1 child)

    by ledow (5567) on Sunday October 29 2017, @09:03PM (#589208) Homepage

    You don't have to root your phone, which most people will never do.

    And you don't have to know how to do anything but click the icon, which most people don't.

    And you'll be supported by the original manufacturer's warranty still.

    But apart from that... yeah... "nothing"...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Monday October 30 2017, @02:57AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday October 30 2017, @02:57AM (#589325) Journal

    Despite the name, GNURoot Debian [google.com] and XServer XSDL [google.com] do not require root access.