[firefoxman1]

I know the current way to get Ubuntu on it is the chroot method, but why hasn't anyone hacked the WebOS Doctor to have a boot loader to dual boot Ubuntu? Or even have a system like a GDM login that gives the option to start X/Gnome instead of the native environment so you wouldn't need Ubuntu at all?

[freehunter]

The reason they use a chroot instead of a native boot is because WebOS has the drivers for the system already loaded. By booting Ubuntu inside of WebOS, they avoid not having compatible drivers for the system inside of Ubuntu. I don't know if all the drivers are open source or if today's announcement will change that.

[firefoxman1]

Ah yeah, I guessed that's why they only had a chroot until now, but what if you modified the system to load X11/Gnome at the end of boot instead of going into their own proprietary desktop environment?

[freehunter]

With the announcement of WebOS open source, it should theoretically become possible. Luna is just a desktop environment overtop a fairly normal Linux system. There might need to be a few extra packages installed to get Gnome 3 or Unity running, but as long as they can grab access to the video processor, it should be do-able. One more thing to look forward to.