Prepare your terminal command line skills for UbuntuPhone!

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Author: User
The Ubuntu mobile phone operating system will have a terminal application. Experienced Linux users can explore all its functions in the shiny graphic interface of the system. Although the Ubuntu mobile OS code has not yet been published, it will be committed to the open development of the core applications of the Platform, includes email, calendar, clock/alarm, weather, File Manager, document viewer, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. One of the reference blueprints for terminal applications officially released by Canonical & n

The Ubuntu mobile phone operating system will have a terminal application. Experienced Linux users can explore all its functions in the shiny graphic interface of the system. Although the Ubuntu mobile OS code has not yet been published, it will be committed to the open development of the core applications of the Platform, includes email, calendar, clock/alarm, weather, File Manager, document viewer, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

One of the reference blueprints for terminal applications officially released by Canonical

 

 

In addition, the terminal application simulates the Linux terminal program in the window, and may have a keyboard layout specially optimized for Linux Command lines. A key development requirement for this terminal application is to integrate a Unix tool, BusyBox. Developers are also welcome to give their suggestions on application design. To promote things, Canonical has released some blueprint models (such ).

 

Linux-based Android does not include terminal applications by default. However, you can use third-party Application Extensions to access Linux Command lines. Why use a terminal application on a mobile phone? A GitHub Android Terminal Project pointed out that it allows users to "access the/sdcard file system completely through the Android terminal simulator process, you can install and run the Linux Command Line program on the/data file system. You can even run command line programs that access the internet ".

It is not surprising that the Ubuntu mobile operating system provides default terminal applications. According to Canonical, mobile phones and the desktop version of Ubuntu (for phones & for desktop tops) will have the same code library. Different user interfaces and functions depend on whether people use mobile phones or PCs. When the monitor, keyboard, and mouse are connected to the base, the Ubuntu mobile phone can even become a full-featured PC. Therefore, in theory, Cononical can almost throw any application to a Ubuntu mobile phone.

For more information about Ubuntu, see Ubuntu special page http://www.linuxidc.com/topicnews.aspx? Tid = 2

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