I want to buy a new smart phone. I am thinking of buying Samsung Galaxy S2 and I was thinking is there a Linux operating system for smart phones? I have been using Ubuntu for years and I would like to continue use Ubuntu on my smart phone as well.
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Mark Shuttleworth recently announced a plan to develop smartphones and tablets with Ubuntu, but the tentative goal is to achieve this by 2014.
However, Android is running a modified Linux kernel, and you can write apps for Android, particularly in Java. There are also official Ubuntu One apps for Android: a file syncing app, with an option to automatically upload photos from your phone camera; and a music syncing app for use with the Ubuntu One music store.
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Samsung showed a demo of the Linux based Tizen operating system running on a Galaxy S2 HD at the Tizen Developer Conference in May 2012: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/05/tizen-on-samsung-galaxy-s2-hd/
The Ubuntu for Android program http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android seems to be open to operators or companies cooperating with Canonical at the moment, but I haven't seen any devices being sold with that software installed.
Samsung will release Tizen based devices in 2013, and rumors are that they will be based on the Galaxy S3 hardware.
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Buying a Galaxy S2 is already buying a smartphone with linux. Android itself is a linux operating system, and is quite good indeed. But if you want something different, try Meego (actually now called tizen), but be careful, for I don't know if It can run on the S2
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