Working with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 (KitKat-x86) by the Android-x86 Project brings the viability of an Android distro as an alternative desktop several steps closer, but it is still a work in progress. This software release lets you run a live session of Android from CD or USB drive — or you can install Android KitKat for the PC on a laptop or desktop’s hard drive.
I don't get what the appeal of Android for a desktop is. Why adapt a phone/tablet system to the desktop when there are already a large number of fine and thoroughly honed desktop Linux systems? Gimmee a break. If you want a tablet desktop with no keyboard and no interest in touch typing and crunching images and so on then go for it. Replace Fedora on my 4 systems? Get real. Desktops are not modified smartphones. Desktops have been around since the 70s. Smartphones have been around how long? If you have nothing to do and no skills with which to do it then go for Windows-8-smartphone-OS or Android. If you have work to do go with Fedora, SUSE or Debian. If you want to dink around then get Win8 or Android and pretend you're using a desktop system.
I would like kit Kat on my old Toshiba A135-S2386.
XP era is over. With my lowly specs Lubuntu 14 is working but not the wifi Brother printer. Just using Chrome drive, internet searches, YouTube and thats the limit of what to do. if I had Kit Kat that would be a whole different story. I could use several different applications and I could actually print wifi without any trouble.
I made several attempts to put Kit Kat or any version of Android on my paticular machine but it didn't work. they probably don't have the drivers for my particular machine when they're making an Android.
a second reason is I really like my note 3 with KitKat it would be nice to have kind of the similar setup on a PC laptop it kind of makes things uniform for me in my particular case. it would also give my laptop a second life with some perks via all the cool apps.
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Android-x86 Just Might Make a Good Linux Desktop Alternative
Posted by: Jack M. Germain March 20, 2014 03:33 PMWorking with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 (KitKat-x86) by the Android-x86 Project brings the viability of an Android distro as an alternative desktop several steps closer, but it is still a work in progress. This software release lets you run a live session of Android from CD or USB drive — or you can install Android KitKat for the PC on a laptop or desktop’s hard drive.
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XP era is over. With my lowly specs Lubuntu 14 is working but not the wifi Brother printer. Just using Chrome drive, internet searches, YouTube and thats the limit of what to do. if I had Kit Kat that would be a whole different story. I could use several different applications and I could actually print wifi without any trouble.
I made several attempts to put Kit Kat or any version of Android on my paticular machine but it didn't work. they probably don't have the drivers for my particular machine when they're making an Android.
a second reason is I really like my note 3 with KitKat it would be nice to have kind of the similar setup on a PC laptop it kind of makes things uniform for me in my particular case. it would also give my laptop a second life with some perks via all the cool apps.