Ubuntu up and running on Pandora
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Sep 29th 2008 10:04AM
posted Sep 29th 2008 10:04AM
All kinds of exciting things are happening in the Pandora universe, and now one enterprising individual has succeeded in getting Ubuntu 7.04 up and running on his development model. Things move pretty slowly, and no luck yet with Firefox, but the thrilling video does catch him playing with GIMP and the Xfce desktop environment. See for yourself after the break.[Thanks, Stern]
Joseph L. Flatley, you, you.. you are one uninformed hound. I am surprised the producers at late night even let-you-out today!
If it's running Xfce, don't you mean Xubuntu?
no... he means ubuntu running xfce
xubuntu is a x86 and x64 only distro that boots from cd
so to get this setup he probably installed ubuntu then added the xfce package which is not xubuntu it is ubuntu with xfce
I don't know what you're smoking cb88, but please share.
http://www.xubuntu.org/
Xubuntu is a Linux Distribution that installs Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop panel manager.
You would be a retard if you downloaded Ubuntu (Gnome) just to reinstall the desktop panel manager as Xfce when you got done installing Ubuntu. That's what Xubuntu is for.
There's another one called Kubuntu that uses the KDE desktop panel manager.
Bah, the Pandora is not x86, so now your comment makes more sense.
I still wouldn't mind what your smoking, it might make me pay more attention to detail.
did you miss the part where i said xubuntu is a livecd that boots on x86 and x64? this is running on an ARM processor and doesn't even have a CD drive although you could plug one in via the USB
So, Emu fans. Are you going to open Pandora's box or would you rather take a Wiz?
as usual asian companies don't seem to grasp the creativity of american and european enthusiasts, each new model adds something but only quirks while adding some flaws at the same time. the f200 for example added a touch screen which was nice, and a much needed d-pad (the anolog stick before wasn't really anolog) but then the horrid gui required more clicks then if they had the original one with all menus layed out and now the wiz still doesn't improve the real hardware with a much needed gpu, and installed makes a useless dual dpad design
Unfortunately, the D-pad on the f200 wasn't a D-pad at all. It was four separate buttons, which made for some pretty painful control (especially for classic fighters). It really made an, otherwise, decent device a pretty big disappointment.
It looks like the d-pad on the Wiz is also just four buttons and not a real d-pad. It probably for the better though. I don't think that I'd trust GPH to put a real, quality d-pad on their gaming device and make sure that it worked well before shipping them out. They obviously didn't on my F-100s joystick. Four buttons is the cheap and easy way to go and it'll probably suit them better. A decent majority of games will work fine with that set up. Of course, I'm demanding a real d-pad this time around and it seems my wishes are about to come true.
I never bothered spending the money to upgrade my F-100 but there's no way that the directional controls were worse on the F-200. Thankfully, I didn't buy the MK1 which had the convex joystick cap which was supposed to be even worse.
The good thing about the OpenPandora people is that they left GPH to better support what the western community was looking for in a handheld. The OpenPandora project was led by community input. I have good faith the project will not disappoint. I'm preordering as soon as possible.
I guess I'm one uneducated geek here - I don't get what you're talking about...
sir, i'm going to have to suspend your geek license...
and I quote, from the pandora we site:
http://www.openpandora.org/
"it is very small, around about the same size as a DS. It can easily fit in your pocket."
questions?
I was very confused at first because I associate the word Pandora with the streaming service.
Pandora is alot bigger then the Wiz, DS, iPod touch and the PSP. Pandora should be compared to netbooks since its not that portable at all. Its almost 3cm thick! It's about the size of a small text book.
The Pandora is actually a bit smaller than the original DS. The one you're talking about is the developer version, using inexpensive cases (which are thicker and have no smooth, sexy curves).
You have some really small text books at your school. I usually couldn't get mine to fit in my pocket. I was lucky to get mine to fit in a backpack. Just messin' with you. :)
The pictures make Pandora look a lot bigger than it actually is. Everyone that I've shown it to thought that it a more EEE size when it is actually more DS size. It's definitely bigger than the Wiz although I'd rather have a bigger screen and better controls than extreme pocketability. That's my preference at least.
Size comparison: http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/16085-Eeepc-701-vs-Pandora-vs-DS-Lite-vs-psp-vs-Apple-iPhone
Definitely in the "pocketable" category, and nowhere near the size of an eeePC.
Ok actually I was wrong about the other measurements but you can definately not fit this in your pocket. 2.7cm thickness is quite alot if you ask me. But I guess you cant fit a DS or a PSP in your pocket either.
You must have some pretty friggin small pockets, i can fit both a ds phat and psp f-1000 in the same pocket without much bulge.
Although, as Craig has said, there isn't really any reason to run Ubuntu on it.
Oh well, it's fun anyway. :)
That guys needs to try Damn Small Linux, as I'm sure that would work at a perfectly usable speed and with Firefox.
Or even Arch Linux with a minimal install should do it
DSL doesn't have an arm port
and neither does Arch Linux
the pandora does not have an x86 processor cause if it did to get the same performance as the ARM cortex a8 that it does have it would probably only have an hour or 2 battery life but the Arm has a 10+ hour battery life (about 8 hours at 100% system load with LCD on and no power saving features active)
but does it run Mojave?
WTF?
Ubuntu doesn't support the ARM processor!
That's NOT ubuntu, or the stated specs are bs. Where's the beef?
What the hell is going on?
recompiled.
Good catch! You've uncovered an elaborate scam - the same scam Nokia apparently tried to pull off six months ago: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/nokia-internet-tablets-to-get-ubuntu-and-qt-ports/
Luckily we have such well informed citizens as yourself pointing out the impossible. The beef, sir, is with you.
If they can install fluxbuntu more fast window management (Ubuntu with FluxBox)... I think we can use blender game engine to put games in OpenPandora :)
Preorders have started!
http://gbax.com
ROFL... I missed your comment .... sorry ... apparently i also have an attention deficit