The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system may have given up on Ubuntu for phones and tablets. But as expected, third-party developers are picking up where Canonical left off. UBports was originally founded to port Ubuntu to devices that weren’t originally supported by Canonical. Now that Canonical doesn’t really support any of those devices […]
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Ubuntu for phones and tablets is dead
When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today that the team behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system would be dropping the Unity desktop environment and going back to GNOME starting in 2018, I wondered what it means for the Ubuntu Phone project. Apparently what it means is that Canonical is giving up on Ubuntu Phone. […]
Ubuntu Mobile will make it easy to run Android and Ubuntu side-by-side
There are a handful of reasons you might want to run a full-blown desktop Linux operating system on your smartphone or tablet. It allows you to use desktop apps such as Firefox or LibreOffice, for one thing. The best reason is probably because it’s an incredibly geeky thing to do. But that doesn’t mean it […]
First Ubuntu Mobile image released, kinda runs on netbooks
A pre-release version of Ubuntu Mobile has been released. What’s Ubuntu Mobile? It’s a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed to run on handheld MID devices with 7 to 9 inch touchscreen displays. In other words, UMPCs. Ubuntu Mobile is not the same thing as Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which is designed for netbooks, or small, […]