Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones 127
adeelarshad82 writes "Ubuntu for smartphones may be pretty late to the smartphone ecosystem, but as the hands-on video demonstrates, Canonical has been paying attention. The operating system is just called Ubuntu, allowing the company to complete their illusion that this operating system offers everything that desktop Ubuntu runs. If you're a fan of the Unity UI you will find yourself right at home with this interface since every bit of Ubuntu has visual cues that come straight from Unity. As the video shows, the animations looked great, and the phone feels incredibly fast. The top bar of the OS has several icons across it, offering a quick glimpse into things like battery life, messages and others. Settings for every app are available by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, in a gesture that is quite similar to the one used in Windows 8 to access the menu. Given that it's early days for the OS, Ubuntu is far from perfect. For instance, their welcome screen allows for way too many apps to be rapidly accessible without a pin lock of some kind."
Re:Wat (Score:5, Insightful)
Typical noob...
You earned yourself a Useless Use of Cat Award [partmaps.org]!
If you're a fan of the Unity UI... (Score:0, Insightful)
If you're a fan of the Unity UI...
snigger
Good one.
Re:Wat (Score:4, Insightful)
It looks to me like somebody forgot to specify the network device over which the call is supposed to go out, as well as failing to specify the tty that the SIM is listening on...
Re:If you're a fan of the Unity UI... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Wat (Score:4, Insightful)
While cat is superfluous there, structuring the command in that way can make what's happening more obvious to the novice. Personally, grep's argument handling has always seemed backwards to me. I tend to think of it as "search this file for this pattern" (grep ), not "search for this pattern in this file" (grep ), so when I was first using Linux, I often used cat | grep because I kept getting the command wrong.
Re:Useless - schmuseless! (Score:5, Insightful)
Good lord what have I started?