Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 gets ported onto Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1

Not even a fortnight after we saw Android 2.0.1 slapped onto Sony Ericsson's all-but-forgotten Xperia X1, along comes a port that makes the other look like child's play. A dedicated coder over at XDA Developers has managed to stuff Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 onto an X1, and while the functionality is limited (as you'd expect), the amount of fun to be had is restrained only by your imagination (and available vacation time). Go on and peek that source link to join the discussion -- but be warned, you'll be sucking down over a gigabyte worth of data before the first installation process.

[Thanks, Jules]

[chnwa3 Posted Feb 17th 2010 3:10AM]

Joe Belfiore repeats, "the phone is not a PC"

[theshadow27 Posted Feb 17th 2010 3:34AM]

@chnwa3
"...But XDA makes it one"

[YpoCaramel Posted Feb 17th 2010 3:12AM]

ahhh... the X1. HTC's durability + Sony Ericcson style. Sigh.

[Wil2Win Posted Feb 17th 2010 3:13AM]

@YpoCaramel Helluva combination eh?

[rhezaganteng Posted Feb 17th 2010 3:17AM]

Nexus One Debian os Development:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=631389

still in progress.

[TareG Posted Feb 17th 2010 3:48AM]

I hope whoever did that had fun in the process at least...

[phlux Posted Feb 17th 2010 4:00AM]

Fortnight? I've heard many anglophiles use this.

[EGOvoruhk Posted Feb 17th 2010 4:03AM]

The Nexus One is HTC's. They're answering their own phone with another of their phones?..

[Delta Posted Feb 17th 2010 9:37AM]

@EGOvoruhk
Um... what?

[EGOvoruhk Posted Feb 17th 2010 12:25PM]

@Delta I was replying to someone who was deleted for spamming. He said this phone was an answer to Google's Nexus One

@TonyMontana2367 Wow, thanks...

[Ploni Almoni Posted Feb 17th 2010 7:57AM]

Oh well, it was only a matter of time before someone out there beat my Palm Pre's Debian chroot. :-(

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Debian

Though I've heard some brave soul made X11 work on WebOS... :)

[glamajamma Posted Feb 17th 2010 8:13AM]

Now if I can just convince my job to get ubuntu preinstalled on my laptop.

[brothaa Posted Feb 17th 2010 11:30AM]

the Xperia X1 is the best built smartphone i have ever owned.

THis thing has drowned in pluddles multiple times, it has falled on concrete about 50+ times, its rolled down stairs, been stepped on. Yet its still going strong.

I could never imagine dropping a droid onto pavement.

[JesusFreak Posted Feb 17th 2010 11:43AM]

Awesome, one of the key devs involved in the XDANDROID project, phhusson, gave me his Ubuntu build for Fuze. Mine boots but the touchscreen calibration is all out of whack and the keyboard is mismapped. Hopefully I can use some of this to get his build fully functional.

[Pookiewood Posted Feb 17th 2010 11:46AM]

Can it Run (on) Touch Pro 2? :p