The concept lets you transform your phone into a PC

Oct 19, 2017 04:40 GMT  ·  By

After unveiling its next-generation Bixby 2.0 intelligent assistant, Samsung today announced that it plans to bring the Linux PC experience to the Samsung DeX ecosystem.

Samsung announced Samsung DeX earlier this year as a way for users to transform their mobile phones into full-fledged desktops or workstations by attaching a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. DeX is currently limited the Galaxy S8 and S8+, as well as Note 8, bringing you a desktop-like experience powered by your smartphone.

And now, Samsung wants to expand the DeX's capabilities by introducing "Linux on Galaxy," a new concept promising to bring the Linux PC experience to your mobile device. Linux on Galaxy comes in the form of an app that you can install on your smartphone to run multiple Linux-based operating systems.

"Although it’s in a trial phase, Linux on Galaxy is our innovative solution to bring the Linux experience on PC to mobile, and then further onto a larger display with Samsung DeX. Now developers can code using their mobile on-the-go and with Samsung DeX, and can seamlessly continue the task on a larger display," says Samsung.

Developers will be able to use their favorite GNU/Linux distro

With the Linux on Galaxy app, developers will be able to use their favorite GNU/Linux distribution on their mobile devices. When using Samsung DeX with Linux on Galaxy, users can also run Linux apps that aren't available on their smartphones, which run Google's Android mobile operating system, also powered by the Linux kernel.

Best of all, Samsung Linux on Galaxy will enable developers to use a fully functional development environment to create content on a big screen, all powered by their Samsung S8/S8+ or Note 8 devices. At the moment, Linux on Galaxy is in heavy development, but you can find out more about it at seap.samsung.com/linux-on-galaxy.

Samsung also announced today during the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2017 event in San Francisco, US, that it partnered with major game developers to expand Samsung DeX's gaming capabilities and let users play their favorite mobile games on the big screen. Supported games include Super Evil Megacorp’s Vainglory, Eric Froemling’s BombSquad, Netmarble’s Lineage 2 Revolution, and Game Insight’s Survival Arena.

Super Evil Megacorp's Vainglory / Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition
Super Evil Megacorp's Vainglory / Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition

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