@gabiz Did you mean Google (instead of Samsung) decided  not to enable specific kernel modifications (my assumption is for Android)? If they (DEX team) are blocked by that decision (kernel modifications) and Samsung (another department, responsible for the main Android kernel) is responsible for that decision then this is bad.   ... View more

Can you @Balling please  provide us with the exact link (source code, maybe github/or git repository) as I went to the website (http://opensource.samsung.com/) and could not find any references for the LoD kernel. Thanks ... View more

Unfortunately yes @heitorzc it seems that LoD has been discontinued and invalidated for Android 10, thats unfortunate and really bad (another reference/article of the cancelation: https://9to5google.com/2019/10/18/samsung-discontinues-linux-on-dex-program-removing-support-w-android-10/). I am writing this from my Samsung Tab 6, which today has been degraded (one of the most promised features of the device has been cancelled) . I have been a customer of Samsung in the past (Note, tab etc devices) and also I have been OK with their slow updates and some other mishups eg had to return my Note 7, but this for me is unnacceptable and I am not sure if I can buy a product or trust them again (supporting their devices). It is most important that the software and customer service reflects the hardware available , the hardware is not the main part of the platform but the services on that platform are. I wish them well but I cannot really follow them in that journey.  ... View more

Bailing Explorer, if you want to play around open the APK and there are some shell scripts that you can use in the assets, if you can reassemble the package and make it work in the Tab S6 that's fine. You will have to reassemble the APK though unless you can make sure that the MD5 checksum is the same, as most of the times the release signature is connected to the checksum (hash size) of the package. About the check I think that the binaries are obfuscated. Even if you do succeed, Samsung might have special drivers for making the hardware work, meaning that Ubuntu will not work correctly on Tab S6. But if you want to play around, please play around and share the results you don't have to state the obvious. ... View more

It can be installed but it crashes (segmentation fault) when trying to run. (debugging the logs, it appears that the issue is that there is no glx driver support ). Ubuntu in stalled in 'Linux on DEX' supports blender (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiq0yFsX05A) but unfortunately it does not support the Tab S6. ... View more

I have installed Gimp 2.10 as I am running Ubuntu 19.04 with XFCE4. If you have 18.04 LTS version the official version is 2.8. ... View more

You need a graphical interface to display those applications, and the only interface I could reliable use in Ubuntu installed via Termux was XFCE4. Now on XFCE4, IDEA works, (Android Studio partially works as the Android SDK in Ubuntu is deprecated, and old versions of Android Studio are 32bit). Gimp works but Blender is not as there is no GLX/OpenGL driver support . ... View more

No there is not a way to install full fledged Linux on iPad Pro unless you jailbreak the device, that will invalidate your warranty . There are shell/terminal apps on iPad/iPhone but those are limited in functionality . For further information follow this : https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/77tx2v/why_is_there_no_native_vm_software_for_ios/ ... View more

Don't get me wrong, there are other ways to install Linux on the Tab S6 but those are cumbersome and clunky, (using an app called Termux) . For example I installed Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.04, the only interface I was able to run successfully was XFCE4 and this had several issues (speed, graphical, and apps not running). Having official Linux support for DEX for the Tab S6 will  give the tablet a heads up over iPad Pro for developers, as of right now there is really nothing more than just the price (which is quite significant) and the open android ecosystem to take into consideration .  DEX is a significant feature by itself but with the iPAD OS Apple has raised the bar once more and Samsung needs to keep up.  ... View more

There are actually many people that I know and I talked to,  that they wont buy the tab 6 because of Samsung not supporting Linux or at least not telling us that they will. It is a great opportunity for them to open the platform, it is an untapped market that they could exploit. Also it is a lost opportunity for them as they could have advertised and marketed Tab 6 having Linux support. As a developer I would have really appreciated that, as it would allow me to use many familiar tools in a hardware platform that is easily accessible, mobile as well as powerful. Lets hope at least that they are still developing the app, if not (possibly not having the resources or their managers do not see the financial benefit) then we could  ask them to open source it so that others can improve it and support it or even petition if we can get the people to sign so that they can see the number of people that want that feature.   As of the keyboard+touchpad driver being the issue of not supporting the app, I kind of doubt it, as they could just not support it, as it is an optional peripheral. I also think that the bus and the hardware they are using is (or should) not proprietary so there should be already open source support for those (in the kernel) they might have to write some pass through code from the app to the VM but I dont think that they have to open source that, as it is outside the Operating System . ... View more

Contacted Samsung support but they could not answer me with certainty if the app will support the tablet. To quote them : ' Apologies, we currently do not have information if and when it will be available on the Tab S6. ' . So we just have to wait and see. If anyone from Samsung is around please forward the question to the developers or the department that is responsible for developing the app so that we get a definite or more accurate answer. ... View more