Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets

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.'"

Re:This is clearly what he was always planning...

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly.

But one can install KUbuntu instead. KDE 4.7 is slick, the best mouse/keyboard oriented desktop I've seen so far.

It's too bad that Unity is the bloody *default* thing people get on desktops. It should be the default on mobile devices. The desktop default should not be Unity or Gnome3 or other mobile-oriented environments.

Re:This is clearly what he was always planning...

[Bill Hayden]

Apple hasn't even tried to make the iOS and OSX interfaces look similar.

I have to assume that was a joke, or else you haven't used Lion yet.

Re:This is clearly what he was always planning...

[AdamJS]

I want a desktop environment that plays well with multiple monitors and several open applications (each of which having multiple windows that I will want on screen at the same time, and selectable from a central location in the fewest clicks possible, with the task of exact identification handled without needing a click on most instances). You know, what Gnome 2 did quite well and what MS/Explorer has handled fine enough for over a decade.

They should shut up until it ships.

[Animats]

Canonical previously announced that their distro was being preloaded on three ASUS netbooks. [theinquirer.net] That was in August. Didn't happen.

Canonical issued that Linux press release, but Asus never said they were going to ship those machines with Linux. Canonical has no credibility.

Re:The Difference

[ColdWetDog]

Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly there. That's the big difference. They're competing mainly with Apple/Google, and I think they can take them on.

You might be right, but Apple has proved to be as unscrupulous as Microsoft. Expect all the ridiculous patents (e.g looks like a tablet) that they have used against Android to be used against Ubuntu.

Do you think we can let this meme just drop off into the sludge pit of dumb rants? Apple is going after Samsung using design patents [wikimedia.org] this is a slightly different concept that the 'standard' patent for an 'invention'. The Apple / Samsung case is about quite a bit more than a rounded rectangle. It IS a dumb thing, rather like Pepsi making a glass bottle that looked like the canonical (and patented) Coke Bottle but with sharper flutes or whatever but Apple DIDN'T patent rounded rectangles. Apple didn't patent tablets.

Channel your AppleHate(TM) [talkandroid.com] somewhere else. /end rant