Windows Phone Replaced with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on Lumia 1020

Posted by thesilviu on Dec 30, 2014 10:59 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Windows phone (Lumia 1020) is probably the last place where you would expect to see Ubuntu, but a user has posted images with Ubuntu running on this device and they seem to be legit.

Running Ubuntu on a Lumia 1020 devices tells us two things. One is that the Linux kernel has hardware support for the specs of the devices, and the second one is that the device is powerful enough to run it. In any case, it's an odd choice and the only reason to do this is to show that you can. There is basically no practical application to this, besides the cool factor.

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