{"id":233811,"date":"2017-10-19T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=233811"},"modified":"2017-10-19T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:59:28","slug":"samsung-bringing-linux-to-galaxy-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/233811-samsung-bringing-linux-to-galaxy-smartphones.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung bringing Linux to Galaxy smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s new &#8220;Linux on Galaxy&#8221; project aims to bring a Linux desktop environment to Galaxy smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The project is aimed at developers and the Samsung DeX docking device. DeX allows users to dock their smartphone and get a desktop experience by connecting to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung said developers will be able to run their preferred Linux distribution on their smartphone. For performance reasons, the Android kernel will be shared with the Linux desktop environment.<\/p>\n<p>Linux on Galaxy will be installed as an app, and will bring the ability to run multiple operating systems to smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Users can simply switch to the app and run any program they need to in a Linux OS environment,&#8221; said Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung also announced partnerships with game studios to bring several games to DeX.<\/p>\n<p>This includes Super Evil Megacorp\u2019s Vainglory, Game Insight\u2019s Survival Arena, and Eric Froemling\u2019s BombSquad.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/233471-samsung-unveils-connect-tag.html\">Samsung unveils Connect Tag<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s &#8220;Linux on Galaxy&#8221; project aims to bring a Linux desktop environment to Galaxy smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[645,42276],"class_list":["post-233811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-dex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233821,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233811\/revisions\/233821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}