Canonical wants to build a smartphone called the Ubuntu Edge that dual boots Android and Ubuntu, which has 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and which you can use as a phone or a desktop PC (just add keyboard, mouse, and monitor). In order to make that happen, the company’s turned to crowd-funding, with […]
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Ubuntu Edge: Canonical wants to build a crowd-funded Linux/Android phone (needs $32 million in 31 days to do it)
The developers of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system want to build a phone. It’s called the Ubuntu Edge, and you may have already heard of it. But it turns out the plans for Edge might make it the most ambitious smartphone ever designed… if it ever gets made. Here’s the short version: It’s a […]
Ubuntu 13.04 to axe the Wubi Windows installer
Wubi is a tool that lets you install Ubuntu as if it were a Windows application. In other words, you can create a computer that dual boots Windows and Ubuntu Linux without messing with disk partitions, bootloaders, or anything else. Just download and run Wubi and use it to install Ubuntu. If you want to […]
Android on Intel now supports UEFI, can dual-boot with Windows 8
Developers at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center have been working on a version of Android optimized to run on Intel chips, and this week the team released a major update. Android-4.2.2_r1-ia0 is a preview release designed to run on the same types of desktop, notebook, or tablet PCs you’d normally run Windows on — and […]
Italian quad-core tablet dual-boots Ubuntu, Android
Just because your tablet has an ARM-based processor doesn’t mean it has to run a mobile operating system like Android. Italian company DaVinci Mobile’s new Kite tablet dual-boots Android 4.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 Linux. The tablet is up for pre-order in Italy for around $400. The Kite tablet is powered by a Samsung Exynos 4412 […]
B&N NOOK HD, NOOK HD+ rooted, work on custom ROMs is underway
Just days after the Barnes & Noble NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets went on sale, hacker verygreen has posted instructions for rooting the tablets. It also looks like it’s possible to boot software from a microSD card — which means you may soon be able to dual boot the official B&N software as well […]
Tegatech DLI7200 4.3″ inch PC dual boots Windows, Android
PC makers have introduced an awful lot of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets with 10 or 11 inch screens. Or you can pick up a smartphone with Windows Phone 8 if you’re looking for something a little smaller. But Tegatech’s Hugo Ortega has another product for folks looking for a smaller screen and a […]
Microsoft Surface tablet clone runs Android (and Windows 8)
Chinese device makers have a long history of cloning the design of popular products and selling knockoffs at rock bottom prices. Next in line? Microsoft’s upcoming Surface tablet. The Surface is a tablet with a 10.6 inch display, Windows RT or Windows 8 software, and a “smart cover” with a touch-sensitive keyboard built in. Microsoft […]
Dual boot Chrome OS, Ubuntu on a Chromebook, Chromebox
Google Chrome OS is an operating system designed around the Chrome web browser. All the apps you run on Chrome OS are web apps, which is why computers designed to run Chrome tend to ship with just 16GB of storage — you don’t need space to store apps or files on a large hard drive. […]
Evigroup ships dual-boot Windows 7, Windows 8 preview tablet
French tablet maker Evigroup is officially one of the first companies to ship a tablet running Windows 8. Actually, the Evigroup SmartPaddle Pro is available with Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows 7 in a dual-boot configuration. That lets users decide which operating system they prefer — and when Windows 8 is released this fall, […]