Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets 281
First time accepted submitter GuerillaRadio writes "Mark Shuttleworth is to announce that Canonical will be taking Ubuntu Linux to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL starting today. Shuttleworth said, 'This is a natural expansion of our idea as Ubuntu as Linux for human beings. As people have moved from desktop to new form factors for computing, it's important for us to reach out to our community on these platforms. So, we'll embrace the challenge of how to use Ubuntu on smartphones, tablets and smart-screens.'"
spread the pain (Score:2, Funny)
to other platforms. Good.
Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)
Having a tablet oriented linux distro is going to open up the linux market. Ubuntu has a reputation for working out of the box, let's see if they can keep it with such unusual hardware.
So we can look forward to the "year of Linux on the Tablet" just after the "year of Linux on the Desktop"?
Re:Good news - Android minus Google's crippleware. (Score:5, Funny)
They modified Linus? What did they do to him? I bet he's pretty angry about that!
Re:Good news - Android minus Google's crippleware. (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, it wasn't the real Linus, they forked him first.
Re:Unity's table look and feel (Score:4, Funny)
Please go easy on them - they obviously typed that using Unity.