Ubuntu – Will “Ubuntu for Android” (12.04) work with the Samsung Galaxy S2

Update: A GVFS MTP backend is now available. The author also provides a PPA.

I have already written about go-mptfs there.

The author recently wrote another article with another alternative jmptfs. He is writing in german but I think the commands he uses should be self explanatory, or machine translation would be sufficient.

You can of course just take a look the original project sites:

• https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs
• http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs-exchanging-files-between-android-devices-and-linux/

May be one of those work for you.

My first question is if ubuntu for android is really the full operating system that lets you run programs just like a desktop pc? Is it super slow where it takes many minutes to load up ubuntu? I don't need blazing speeds, but I'd like something useable.

This is Ubuntu for Android.

It's not a "mobile version" of Ubuntu.

It's a special build of the Ubuntu OS that can be installed on Android dual-core phone, with this you can attach a HDMI monitor (and I think a bluetooth keyboard and mouse) and use your smartphone as a computer with Ubuntu.

My next question has to do with vmware or crossover. Is ubuntu for android capable of running these programs?

Ubuntu can run VM software on the PC to emulate other OSs, however VMWare does not emulate CPU architecture, therefore it doesn't run on the Ubuntu version that the app Installs because only software compiled for ARM is available. I had Ubuntu on my Galaxy S 2, Wine for instance wasn't available but other software was such as Chromium, or Inkscape.