Canonical to Reveal ‘Ubuntu Concept Design’ At CES 2012

By , Published January 3, 2012

Canonical will show off an ‘exclusive Ubuntu concept design’ at next weeks (10th – 13th January) Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

And, tantalisingly, we’ve been told that the top secret design is ‘so awesome’ that ‘it might just surprise a lot of people in the industry.‘

CES

Canonical, in their mini CES announcement, don’t give much away. They simple state that they will be showing off  the “…latest in Desktop, Cloud and demonstrations on Ubuntu One, plus an exclusive Ubuntu concept design which will be announced during the show.“

Intriguing stuff.

With Canonical investing in Ubuntu’s multi-platform future it’s even possible that the concept design could take the form of an Ubuntu TV, Tablet or Mobile device. Similarly the emphasis on readying Ubuntu Server for life on the ARM platform could also be of note.

The good news is that whatever it is we don’t have long to wait.

And you can bet your bottom dollar (or Pokemon card if that’s all you’ve got) that we’ll be sharing it with you here on OMG! Ubuntu! as soon as we’re allowed to.

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  • http://twitter.com/zc456 Squeaks

    Never thought I’d see Canonical and CES in the same sentence.

    • https://launchpad.net/~aroman Avi Romanoff

      The times they are a-changin’

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YI6YF5MODP2ZBSHKHC6PJ4GQJM DexterP17

      I thought they were at last year’s CES?

      • Bilal Akhtar

        No, this is their first.

  • http://twitter.com/orgulho_geek Orgulho Geek

    OMG!!!
    News news news…
    I’ll eat my fingers!!!

  • Philip Witte

    My guess? Something like Joli OS.

    • Freddi

      So there we have again Ubuntu ;-)

    • Anonymous

      You may be joking, but I’m going to guess allowing login via Ubuntu One.

      • http://www.facebook.com/semmuhun László Boros

        it wouldnt be such a BIG thing. i think they fount out something innovative – at least i hope so…

  • Jógvan Olsen

    I would never give you my Pokémon card :P

    but will they be recording the whole show like they did at ‘Ubuntu UDS P Orlando’ ?

    • https://launchpad.net/~mhall119 Michael Hall

      CES is huge, but Spike TV will be live broadcasting coverage of it it both on their TV channel and website.

  • Tim Marshall

    when is the CES

    • http://profiles.google.com/lilianftp Moraru Lilian

      The text in bolt says “10th – 13th January”

      • Tom Swartz

        sick burn, dude.

  • Akshat Jain
    • http://claimid.com/el-bhm bhm

      Reminds me about South Park episode with Cartman waiting for the release of the Nintendo Wii.

      • http://profiles.google.com/ezr.ladislav Ladislav Ezr

        Exactly! :D

  • Anonymous

    I’m interested to see what Canonical reveals, but I’m nervous. I love Unity and the direction of the platform, but for them to drastically overhaul the desktop again would be bad. I’m excited to see plans for TVs, phones, and cloud, but I really hope they keep in mind what desktop OSes need to be and improve, not rethink. Either way, I’m excited to see what the future holds for Ubuntu.

    • Anonymous

      I REALLY hope they’ve come to their senses and have persuaded Gnome to see sense as well and get rid of the ridiculousness that is Gnome shell and especially Unity and give everyone their productivity back!

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly

        Have fun using GNOME Classic on a smartphone or tablet, then. :P

        • Anonymous

          I have no wish to use Ubuntu on a phone. I use it as a desktop Operating System (that’s all).  Have you tried using an Android laptop? It’s worse than Unity and that’s saying something!

          • Anonymous

            Asus Transformer is quite nice. But I agree that using HoneyComb interface with a mouse or touchpad is worse than using Unity. :)

        • Anonymous

          Have fun using Unity on a tablet. Really, it has so many things that just don’t work on touchscreen – they will have to change a lot to make it work.

          • Satchit Bhogle

            Right-click is easy to substitute with hold or double tap.

          • The Negative Shape

            And gestures can do the rest (eg show/hide launcher)

      • Anonymous

        I like Unity personally, but I’m worried that Canonical wants one interface (Unity) to work across desktops, phones, TVs, and tablets. They’re not all the same, and shouldn’t all have the same UI. I have faith in the Canonical team and the community, though. I’m sure everything will turn out amazing in the end.

        • Anonymous

          I used to have faith in them, but after what they’ve done to what used to be perfectly usable operating system I have my doubts.

          • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

            They added another choice without taking any choices away, and that’s bad? http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/gnome-session-fallback. Used to be called Gnome Classic, by some. It’s the same software, though. Small change; you have to press alt when customizing the panels. That has led people to think it’s something entirely different, but it isn’t.

        • https://launchpad.net/~mhall119 Michael Hall

          The Unity UI may be different for different platforms, but the goal of the project is to give application developers a single common platform to target that will be consistent across form factors.

          • Anonymous

            That’s sort of my concern. I want developers to develop for the desktop or develop for mobile. I don’t want “one size fits all” apps, because they’re different experiences and should be treated differently.

          • Anonymous

            Depends on “mobile” definition. Tablets are in between and they could really use some full desktop apps – like Google Chrome or LibreOffice (even if they would only work with mouse and/or keyboard). Phones definitely need apps designed especially for them.

          • https://launchpad.net/~mhall119 Michael Hall

            Like I said, the “platform” will be common.  User’s don’t see the platform, they see the UI, which again will be different.  Developers see the platform, there is no reason for the platform to be different.

          • Hein Hanssen

            Also remember that tablets are becoming more and more powerful and could run desktop software like Libreoffice. On the other hand there are some apps on mobile devices I would love to have on my desktop as well. 

            I would also like to invite you to have a look a the Apple Icloud presentations. 

            In a ‘connected’ world synchronizing is the key word.

          • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

            You misunderstand what he means. In many cases, you don’t have to program looks. For instance, an indicator will look native to Windows when you run it there, native to OSX when that’s the environment, or KDE, LXDE, Xfce, etc.

            The same can be true for lenses, quicklists and other Unity features.

            I wish there was much more of this, because it makes it easier to program software for multiple platforms. That’s a very valuable thing.

        • Bilal Akhtar

          Don’t worry, the UI metaphor will be different. Tablet Unity will be a lot different from Desktop Unity and vice-versa.

          Apps will need to be re-written to work with the different UI flavours, though.

          • Anonymous

            How are they planning to convince developers to rewrite their apps? From what I’ve seen, GTK apps have very little manpower behind them, and they have bigger things to deal with than developing new UIs (which is a ton of work). Aren’t the nice, big UI elements from GTK+ 3 enough?

          • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

            Sometimes, it will be necessary in order to save battery life, etc. But oftentimes, it’s sufficient to simply replace the UI. That’s something more applications shoul d be designed for, but the tools are there.

      • Anonymous

        A good UI for tablets, phones and desktop PC’s is E17, or even better Bodhi linux ~ http://bodhilinux.com/

        • Anonymous

          Only if you never used a tablet. :) For tablets best UI is the one from newest Android and the one from WebOS. They don’t work on desktop (at least the Android one doesn’t) because using them with mouse is hard (but I think it would be easy to remedy by adding some buttons and sliders here and there to avoid the need for gestures). For phones I don’t really care, as long as they work. :)

        • Satchit Bhogle

          Bodhi Linux is designed by people who hate people: I’ve watched a number of Linux distros with morbid curiousity, and Bodhi is the ugliest distro which purports to be GUI-based.

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C6S22ANL35LHAH27EX43XFQKTQ Klau3

        Maybe reading this could open your eyes and let you understand/like Unity more:

        http://www.muktware.com/blogs/3159/what-i-love-about-ubuntu-unity

        • Anonymous

          What he shows is that Unity is interesting from a point of view of a programmer not the end user.
          As a programmer I looked into Unity code and wasn’t that impressed (there is a lack of comments and a lot of things is hardcoded while they should be options loaded from preferences – it explains why they are afraid of allowing changes – they hardcoded almost everything) but there were some interesting solutions.

          • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

            You’re right. In that post, I was mostly interested in the infrastructure. But I personally believe that should be important to end-users as well. Look at the Gnome Panel desktop. (Gnome Fallback). Sure, we have some applets. But then, look at Unity. One year old, and we have tons of lenses, indicators, more apps are supporting quicklists, etc.

            If users love software, they should love all efforts that make it easy to make it. I think Ubuntu is becoming a really attractive development platform. The fact that the platform is modular and easily transferable to other platforms, means it’s easier to program for both Windows and Ubuntu, for instance.

      • Anonymous

        I’m really happy about Gnome Shell — it makes you focus on one task, it has great window management (workspaces are so much better in the Shell than in classic Gnome), it can’t be accidentally broken/made unusable as easily, and the plans for it look very promising. It’s really shaping up to be a coherent, simple platform.

        Fortunately for you, though, there’s Mint’s Cinnamon project, there’s LXDE, there’s XFCE, and there’s KDE. I’m actually using LXDE right now, since the specs on my computer aren’t very good and since I like to prolong battery life. It has some rough edges, but it’s developing quickly.

        • Anonymous

          The choice of desktop environments is very good. One issue, though, is that Canonical wants to push hard into mainstream ubiquity and are preparing to do so with the Unity interface. Yet Unity’s improvement of DE experience is unconvincing.

        • Anonymous

          At least my panel doesn’t look different every time I log in now. God! That was an annoying bug to put up with for … what? … like six years.

          • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

            Yes, but it is fixed in the new version of Gnome Panel.

        • Anonymous

          Gnome Tweak does a great job of bridging the customization gap

      • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

        What I would like, personally, was if the users came to their senses and realized that no desktop has been taken away from Ubuntu. It’s still there. You just have to click the button.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly

      Personally, I don’t see the Unity design evolving much more for phones and tablets other than possibly removing the top panel. That’s just my own wild guess since I don’t own any touch devices, but I can’t imagine that thin little panel holding only a couple indicators would be touch-friendly, or even that necessary by now. GNOME Shell approaches the indicators better by autohiding them, IMHO.

    • Freddi

      If you look at the categories on CES, the less fitting seem for me:
      • Connected Home > Connected Home
      • Connected Home > Home Appliances
      • Connected Home > Integrated Home Systems

      So that’s about the secret…

      • Anonymous

        Aha, Ubuntu on a toaster!

        • Freddi

          sudo make-me-a-sandwitch
          bazaar buy ananas bacon cheese

          sudo pkill apple

          • Anonymous

            Sudo kill american idol.

            I hope they don’t get into the DVR / tv business too many devices are already in that market

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MYT2BRAJJMTSHAZ3XZVNFJM6GQ Buddy

          yes, you ‘burn’ your CD with that!

      • http://profiles.google.com/mpnordland Micah Nordland

        That list also includes TabletPCs

    • Anonymous

      They should set their mind on desktops users, rather Smartphone users. 

      • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad

        If you design software properly, you can ensure that applications will blend in, whether it’s a phone, tablet or desktop. I see a huge benefit of having one system across devices. It allows people to gain a deeper understanding of their stuff, because the basics are the same everywhere.

    • Hein Hanssen

      I’m also interested to see where this is going. From what we have seen until now (some sketches have been presented earlier here), it is probable that we will see a revamped/ upgraded/ updated Unity interface that will be more customizable to suit different platforms.

      Apart from that we will probably hear more about Ubuntu One and the direction Ubuntu one is heading. Music store is nice, but where are video’s / movies and ebooks? I would expect that Canonical will evolve in the same way as Apple does with Icloud, but will provide more openness and perhaps some extra goodies.

  • http://twitter.com/jspaleta Jef Spaleta

    Intriguing…
    If Canonical is serious about expanding beyond the traditional computer formfactors and traditional distribution channels, then getting a functional concept offering out and into the hands of potential manufacturer partners will be important.  
    Though I’d like to see them go farther than that. I’d like them to offer up one  or two devices directly from Canonical for sale directly to customers and developers. Take full design control of the reference platform.. software and hardware.

    -jef

    • Satchit Bhogle

      I wouldn’t like that. Offering their own hardware while having Ubuntu free for all OEMs would disincentivise them to ship with Ubuntu (it wouldn’t be THE Ubuntu experience; imagine how OSX would do on non-Apple architecture if Apple allowed OEMs to ship with it). At the same time, official Canonical hardware would not ship to regions outside Europe and North America (if it did, it would likely be a lot more expensive). It just doesn’t make SENSE.

      • http://sensehofstede.nl/ Sense Hofstede

        There are Google-phones, that doens’t show OEMs to ship their own Android phones.

        • Satchit Bhogle

          I am not aware of Google producing any phone hardware.

          • http://owaislone.org/ Owais Lone

             They don’t manufacture but they do produce phones. The nexus line.

          • https://launchpad.net/~mhall119 Michael Hall

            They worked with OEMs to design Google-branded hardware, but they didn’t do the manufacturing themselves.

          • Anonymous

            Neither does Apple. They do it in a sweatshop in China.

          • Akshat Jain

            @bsdrules:disqus So does every single other manufacturer, what’s your point?

          • Anonymous

            Don’t you people read the news? Google bought Motorola’s mobile division ¬.¬  They are now in the manufacturing game.

          • Anonymous

            The acquisition has not been finalized yet.

      • Hein Hanssen

        I don’t fully agree. I think it will be a plus if Canonical could team up with e.g. Asus and bring an Ubuntu pre-installed computer to live, especially if this would computer would have better (an distinctive Ubuntu) looks than a standard Windows PC. It wouldn’t be an Apple IMac, ’cause you could still install and run Ubuntu on any standard PC.

        It makes sense, especially if it would be more high end hardware (core i5 at least, SSD for quick boot times etc). Because Ubuntu is often laughed about, as it is still seen as a poor man’s alternative to the almighty Windows or the snobbish OSX.

        • Glaasje

          ‘Because Ubuntu is often laughed about, as it is still seen as a poor man’s alternative to the almighty Windows or the snobbish OSX.’

          But then you create the problem that people think that Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) is for poor people.
          And they still dont want to use it…
          (who wants to look poor? O_O)

        • Anonymous

          Agreed. System 76 although successful relies on “white book” manufacturing. It would be sweet to see a non generic company like asus partner with system 76 and Ubuntu to create solid hardware.

    • Akshat Jain

      That would be perfect.

  • Anonymous

    Microsoft leaves CES, Ubuntu enters.

    • Anonymous

      Nop ubuntu enters microsoft leaves they knew thau cant compete :-P

      • Will Moorhead

        UBUNTU uses FRIGHTEN
        MICROSOFT is frightened and runs away!

        • http://www.facebook.com/semmuhun László Boros

          it’s SUPER EFFECTIVE! :D

          • Glaasje

            Ubuntu encounters Apple!

            Ubuntu use eat!

            Apple is no more!

  • Tom Swartz

    Perhaps this could be a good thing. 
    Their new idea might be some super tweaks to Unity and the interface itself. Im very interested to see what they pull out of their hat.

  • Glennz NL

    My super psycho powers are telling me Apple will haunt Canonical for the next decade.

    • Heavy Programmer

      My spider senses are tingeling..

    • Anonymous

      Apple?!?! They don’t have the time to mess with a small company, but then again, what is the one key secret to Ubuntu’s success? 
      IT’S FREE! What if Apple released a free version of OS X? I can see where you get the idea of Apple haunting Canonical. 

      • Sergio Tellez Macuil

        Apple + Free. Impossible!
        If Ubuntu becomes big (and awesome) enough to scare Apple they will fight with their “original” patents to kill them. Every(most of the time)time Apple might make (or copy) an innovation they will provide it to those with hungry (gullible) wallets. As long as Apple’s worth is billions they will never MAKE but SELL.

        • Anonymous

          They might release free-of-charge updates to OS X, they already charge very little for those updates. They can do this since it is expected only to run on hardware that Apple produces and which Apple has charged lots of money for. But they won’t make OS X free-as-in-freedom, since that would allow people to install it on hardware that Apple has not charged money for …

        • http://twitter.com/JamesGecko James

          Words words words. Webkit, Grand Central, Zeroconf, Darwin. Apple has made a lot of contributions to open source projects.

          • Ivan Calderon

            Don’t forget CUPS

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6CLU5ZOTFN5KZODOREOPZ27B7Q John Nelson

            I’ve never understood the “Apple has given us Webkit” or “Apple has given us CUPS” arguments. Webkit was forked by Apple from KHTML and KJS, which had been developed by the KDE devs. CUPS was developed in 1997 by Michael Sweet when he owned the company Easy Software Products, and was used by many Linux distros (including Red Hat) long before Apple bought CUPS and hired Michael Sweet in 2007.

            I’m not saying that Apple hasn’t continued working on both Webkit and CUPS. However, both of those were developed elsewhere first, rather than being created by Apple as a gift to the FOSS community.  If anything, it’s an example of how Apple had benefited from things created by the FOSS community, and if it were Microsoft rather than Apple who would have bought CUPS or forked KHTML and KJS, many in the FOSS community would be completely up in arms. They would NEVER claim that they were being given to the FOSS community by Microsoft.

    • Nicholos Tyler

      I think they will find something Canonical is using and try and patent it to death.

      • Hein Hanssen

        Probably. But we can easily make a work around: that’s the power of the open source community: just before some patent goes to trial we make a tiny change and Apple doesn’t have a case anymore. Samsung also did this: just brilliant!

        • Anonymous

          Most of these patents actually patent the end product, the goal, not the means of achieving it.
          It’s not as simple as a little code change.
          Especially when for example you need to support FAT or NTFS to make your mobile products even remotely marketable but that means you must pay royalties for every device you ship.

          • Anonymous

            Ubuntu is not “shipping” anything. If any of the code is infringing any patent in the US, they keep it in European repos and let American users decide from themselves. Nobody sues single users from downloading, say, audio codecs.

            If Ubuntu becomes a solid company, I’m willing to ship my computers with Ubuntu pre-installed and leave it to my customers to download the problematic parts or even compiling them themselves… That may include NTFS and FAT support, for instance.

          • Mikko Kumara

            “– I’m willing to ship my computers with Ubuntu pre-installed –”

            Who are you?

  • http://claimid.com/el-bhm bhm

    My fizz glands are working on 11!

    • http://twitter.com/howythegeek Howy

      Your what is working on what..? o.O

      • http://claimid.com/el-bhm bhm

        Google James May fizz gland.
        Thank me later.

  • Anonymous

    I wish them good luck, but I’m not getting my hopes up, having been thoroughly disappointed with each new Unity release (I liked Unity better back when there was no autohide and still hope of better window management).

    • http://profiles.google.com/ezr.ladislav Ladislav Ezr

      You can turn autohide off you know… And what is wrong about window management?

      • Anonymous

        Window management is abymsal. Try using Ubuntu 10.04 with Compiz and compare to 11.10 with Unity. The difference is huge. 11.10 will make a lot of mistakes about what to put in focus and where to put windows. Or even will confuse things about what exactly is in focus now (causing me to close at least once a day the wrong window!).

      • Anonymous

        Can I turn the menu/window control autohide off?

    • Anonymous

      The netbook edition of Ubuntu was perfect for desktops, all they needed to do was make it lighter for notebooks/netbooks. 

  • Raphael Sanches

    Man… Last 3 weeks I tried to became an Ubuntu User (LINUX) and after to many downloads…installers…drivers and different distros I had to give up because unfortunally my ATI (Microsoft’s best friend) GPU does not work (No Graphic Acceleration= No 3D, No HD Video).

    It was my first contact with LINUX and I liked it a lot!!!!
    I really wish this ATI issues could be fixed by LINUX(in general) or ATI… or anybody!!!… LOL… and when somebody do Ubuntu will be back as my only OS!

    P.S. It feels realy sad to be held hostage by Microsoft.

    • Anonymous

      I use an ATI gpu and it just works. Have you tried the Additional Drivers program?

    • http://twitter.com/howythegeek Howy

      Did you try the latest AMD driver? Download it from AMD’s site, build the Ubuntu package and hop on. (Note: build a .deb package.)
      Just run the file you get with the argument –help, and it should tell you what you need to do.

    • Amartya Datta Gupta

      Agree dude. AMD drivers suck.

    • Anonymous

      I have 5750, unity works, did you use “additional drivers” app?

    • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

      If you can specify which AMD GPU you have, I’m willing to help you. I myself am running Ubuntu 11.04 on an ATI HD 5470. I know there is a problem where Unity falsely blacklists some ATI HD GPUs.

      Also askubuntu.com is an extremefully useful website for these sorts of things.

      • Raphael Sanches

        Thank You Ruben for your help….1 – I tried to install the Additional Drivers and the 1st available option fails install… but not the 2nd (latest update) [Unity does work but video has terrible performance]2 – I tried the ATI Catalyst Drivers from ATI website… [Unity works but the video issues remains]3 – I tried many Distros: – FEDORA (Would not boot after ATI Drivers Installation), – OpenSUSE (Gnome crashed,poor Video Performance)- PC-BSD (Could not install it because Video would crash on the OS Installation)and the one that worked best..- Linux MINT (Little better Video Performance using RADEON Drivers but not enogh to play HD)P.S. With all those Distros and Drivers ( ATI, RADEON, Gallium, VESA ) video image always had lines just like when I had a very cheap PC with onboard VIA Video Card.My Specs: (I’m AMD from head to toes…..LOL)VGA Sapphire 512MB ATI Radeon HDG 4670 DDR2 HDMI/DVI-I/VGA PCI-ExpressAMD Athlon II X3 440 Triple Core 3.0GHz AM3 Box ADX440WFGIBOXMotherBoard Phitronics  AMD NVIDIA® GeForce 7025 N68C-MHD Samsung SATA 2 1TB 5400RPM ECO Green HD103SI/SRAAnyway… this weekend I had to put Windows 7 back with sadness in my heart… but I did not give up on LINUX… whenever I have some free time I’ll start the “Drivers Battle” all over again….If anybody find a solution… please let me know!!!!I want UBUNTU in my life!!!!!!

        • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

          Wow, you definitly tried your best already. I don’t really understand which GPU you now have. You listed a ATI Radeon HDG GPU, a AMD CPU (which is good) and NVidia GeForce GPU? 

          So you have two GPUs from different brands (ATI and NVidia)?

          I can only help with Ubuntu, because it is the only distro I have installed. It would be useful if you can specify which Additional Drivers you tried (the names) and what the errors were you got back.

          • Raphael Sanches

            Thank You one more time Ruben…

            I have a Sapphire 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4670 DDR2 HDMI/DVI-I/VGA PCI-ExpressThe Nvidia it’s the motherboard chipset (which includes a GPU).When I opened yhe Additional Drivers there were 2 listed; I don’t remember the names but one said something about “post release update” and this one failed to install, the other one installed correctly including the ATI Configuration app.But even been able to install one of them the video performance was still poor and playing HD was impossible……Which version do you have?Which one do you think would be the best? 11.04 ? 11.10?……Thanks!

          • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

            Ok, the post-release edition fails for me to (doesn’t matter that much).

            My advice would be use Ubuntu 11.10, install the FGLRX driver (the one that worked in the Additional Drivers).

            And now the fix: try the PPAs of Daniel Vanvugt as suggested here: http://askubuntu.com/a/90546/23152 (fixed huge performance issues for my ATI driver)

            Or secondly, use Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 and see if the slow performance is also there. If so, you’re having a different issue than I had, and I probably won’t be able to help you further. 

            If you are a dare-devil, you could try the alpha release  of Ubuntu 12.04 in a dualboot, and see if the problem exists there. If not, you can wait until April and install the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 then.

            I hope it works, it would be a shame to disappoint someone with as much enthusiasm as you clearly do.

          • Raphael Sanches

            Thank You so much once again Ruben… you truly shinned a light for me at the end of the tunnel… I kinda gave up the whole LINUX experience but now I’ll find some time this week to install Ubuntu 11.10 again and try that PPA.

            If it doesn’t work I wil give 12.04 a shot… who knows?!?

            Thank You!!!!!

      • Raphael Sanches

        Thank You so much once again Ruben… you truly shinned a light for me at the end of the tunnel… I kinda gave up the whole LINUX experience but now I’ll find some time this week to install Ubuntu 11.10 again and try that PPA.

        If it doesn’t work I wil give 12.04 a shot… who knows?!?

        Thank You!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      This is weird, how I remembered it, Nvidia cards was the problem on Linux. correct me if I am wrong. 

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly

         You’re wrong…BOTH are the problem (though ATI arguably more so, from what I’ve heard and personal experience).

        Intel graphics on my laptop FTW!

        • Anonymous

          Unless you’ve got Poulsbo.

          • Raphael Sanches

            Hey Guys.. thanks for the help…. but:

            1 – I tried to install the Additional Drivers and the 1st available option fails install… but not the 2nd (latest update) [Unity does work but video has terrible performance]

            2 – I tried the ATI Catalyst Drivers from ATI website… [Unity works but the video issues remains]

            3 – I tried many Distros:

            - FEDORA (Would not boot after ATI Drivers Installation),

            - OpenSUSE (Gnome crashed,poor Video Performance)

            - PC-BSD (Could not install it because Video would crash on the OS Installation)

            and the one that worked best..

            - Linux MINT (Little better Video Performance using RADEON Drivers but not enogh to play HD)

            P.S. With all those Distros and Drivers ( ATI, RADEON, Gallium, VESA ) video image always had lines just like when I had a very cheap PC with onboard VIA Video Card.

            My Specs: (I’m AMD from head to toes…..LOL)

            VGA Sapphire 512MB ATI Radeon HDG 4670 DDR2 HDMI/DVI-I/VGA PCI-Express

            AMD Athlon II X3 440 Triple Core 3.0GHz AM3 Box ADX440WFGIBOX
            MotherBoard Phitronics  AMD NVIDIA® GeForce 7025 N68C-M
            HD Samsung SATA 2 1TB 5400RPM ECO Green HD103SI/SRAAnyway… this weekend I had to put Windows 7 back with sadness in my heart… but I did not give up on LINUX… whenever I have some free time I’ll start the “Drivers Battle” all over again….If anybody find a solution… please let me know!!!!I want UBUNTU in my life!!!!!!

    • http://profiles.google.com/mpnordland Micah Nordland

      Look at the icon tray in the top right corner. Is there one that looks like a circuit board? If so, click it, and a window should pop up and give you the option to install drivers that will give you hardware acceleration. If not, open the dash and type “Additional Drivers”. The drivers utility should show up as a result. Click it and the window should open. If that fails, see this website: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu

    • Fatriff

      I use ATI on all distros without any issues.

  • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

    I thought it was awfully quiet. Time to shake this up again in Precise+1

  • Brock Sawlor

    Check out the categories they’ve entered for:
    http://ces12.mapyourshow.com/5_0/exhibitor_details.cfm?exhid=T0005601

    Looks like they are definitely branching out.

    • Freddi

      Just a random comparison:
      Canonical has 15 categories and one brand; and a big company like Canon has only one third of those categories but 9 brands.

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

    It won’t look like a UI circa 1995 so therefore it will be bad and people will complain.

    • Joe May

      It won’t function like a ui circa 1995, so therefore it will be bad out of logic.

  • NowarEProduction

    Haters gonna hate…

  • http://twitter.com/howythegeek Howy

    Hope they’ll announce something about the ARM version. And some about the server thing. (I need something for my 600/1150Mhz phone to do when it’s replaced. ;D )

  • Anonymous

    Let them first finish the Ubuntu Desktop! It’s full of bugs!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000678236470 Hans Heintze

      name one for reference please.

      • Anonymous

         Bug #1

        • Ryan Johnson

          LOL.

      • Anonymous

        Coming out of sleep, my desktop is visible until the screen lock kicks in, then it’s not.

      • Anonymous

        1a. When I open the Dash it appears in the background. I have to go to empty workspace just to open the Dash!
        1b. The same for ALT-TAB.
        2. When I open a document in Writer the panel doesn’t show an active Writer icon (The little white triangle). When I click on it another instance of Writer is opened instead of the just opened document.
        3a. LibreOffice isn’t integrated with the top panel yet.
        3a. Detached LibreOffice toolbars are shown as windows (Little white triangles) in the panel.
        4. Switching between two Windows of the same application is annoying because of the zoom-out animation. The solution for this is to have Window previews near the application-icon when there are two or more instances/Windows open of an application.
        5. The right-click on an application in the left panel never works the first time (only the second time).
        6. When the update manager is shown on the panel because of an new update, I can’t open it. I have to close it first.
        7. And there are many more minor usability errors…

        To me the Unity Desktop is, sadly enough, is an unusable state.
        The only reason I still use it, is because I’m waiting on an update which will solve some of these problems.

        I hope some Unity Developers are reading this.

        • http://oimon.wordpress.com mungojerry

          no, that’s what a bug tracker is for. maybe edit your post and include links to the launchpad bug # for each of your issues. if you can’t be bothered to do even that, then how can you expect things to be fixed?

          • Pete Austin

            @mungojerry. WTF. He’s just done Ubunto a big favor by reporting bugs. If you can’t be bothered to even use this information, why should anyone else try to help? Copy the information into your bug tracker yourself!

          • http://oimon.wordpress.com mungojerry

            you forgot the smiley :) but i’ll assume you’re joking…

          • Anonymous

            Why do you immediately attack me? There is no need to do that. I just wrote down some of the bugs that I encounter using Ubuntu 11.10.

          • http://opiniond.com/ Mariano Calixte

            Someday I’ll switch to an OS where the reaction to a bug is “this should be fixed” rather than “why don’t you fix this”

            Many of us encounter bugs  all day long. We love Ubuntu and FLOSS so we stay here, but it would be nice if regular users were’s expected to do geeky stuff like report every bug they see.

            I know a few users that have gone back to Windows/Mac because of that, despite being attracted to the idea of free software.

        • Hein Hanssen

          No, they won’t read it here. It’s easy to criticize. Go to Launchpad and post these issues and provide solutions: that’s the way to do it. If have successfully done this before.  

        • Glaasje

          1a. AND 1b. 
          This bug seems related to:
          https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/848115

          2. Could not find anything about it…. =4

          3. Install the package ‘lo-menubar’ from the ubuntu software center.

          4. Activate the window preview plugin in ccsm.
          (I actually love the zoomy thing… :P)

          5. http://askubuntu.com/questions/92868/unity-icon-right-click-bug
          (It is not really annoying… =4)

          • Anonymous

            Thanks for your investigation :-).

            1. The problem I have comes closer to Bug #810285.
            2. Added a new bug report: Bug #912439
            3. ‘lo-menubar’ is not yet stable and has his own bugs.
            4. Added a new bug report: Bug #912461
            5. Good to read that this bug will be solved.
            6. Maybe this is related to point 5?

            I understand that software is never perfect but the bugs in Unity are so big that working with it is sometimes almost impossible.

            There are other ways to contribute to the open source community. I have a website dedicated to open source software. That is the way I help.

      • juzzlin
      • http://opiniond.com/ Mariano Calixte

        too many to name. 

        these are the most recent ones I can remember:

        - Freeze when using Transmit. 
        - Fail to resume from hibernate.
        - screen flicker on boot. 
        - Launcher that decides it doesn’t want to autohide for a while. a
        - Keychain decides not to remember my main network anymore (happened to me on two different computers)
        - some launcher menus are not usable the first time I activate them. I have to right-click twice for that. 

        You’re going to ask me if I reported them. I have a computer because it simplifies my life, if it does anything else than that I won’t use it.

  • Jason Harvey

    it would be funny if it simply turned out to be unity

    • Anonymous

      or Cinnamon ;-)

      • Glaasje

        or a blank page… =4

        • Anonymous

          Or a smartphone / mp3 / cloud device.

          • Glaasje

            I a coffee mug.. :P

  • http://profiles.google.com/l33ts0n Arron Washington

    Personally I’m rooting for another half-baked, incomplete concept coming out of Canonical. No joke.

    NO JOKE.

    • http://claimid.com/el-bhm bhm

      Story seems cool.
      You must be a bro, bro.

    • Anonymous

      I feel the same. INCOMPLETE. That is Canonical’s tagline. 

    • Anonymous

      I just wish I had your optimism.

      Microsoft WM7 is unfinished and they have spent more than $10 billion on it already with thousands of people working on it full time.

  • Brian Fahrlander

    It’s not really “intriguing stuff” until they *actually* describe something. Here, they’ve just said “We’ll show ya something at CES.” and nothing more.

    And often CES shows are a disappointment, but I hope not.  I hope whatever coolness they have cooked-up for us is optional, not mandatory.

  • brad clawsie

    if it is a tablet, i will be preordering

  • Jonathan Wong

    I want a sleek, modern, usable, easy to use, powerful, flexible desktop out of the box that makes people say wow.  This looks really good, I’ll try it.  Something that will even make Windows and OSX users turn an eye towards (In a good way that is).

  • Anonymous

    They have a small “booth”…  Just look at Canonical VS Microsoft 

    • Will Moorhead

      Size don’t mattah

      • Anonymous

        That’s not what she said…

  • Will Moorhead

    I’m REALLY hoping that they show off a

    Tablet with Ubuntu (with unity tweaked to work better with tablets),
    Badass Ubuntu computer line, or
    A very early build of Unity TV.

    Anything by the likes of this will be a victory in my mind (maybe not your mind though)

  • Anonymous

    Interesting. I think it’ll be interesting to see if they show something compelling.

  • http://twitter.com/jgderose Jason Gerard DeRose

    Whatever it is, my money is on it being ARM-powered.

    Ya know, KILL KILL KILL - http://www.linaro.org/

  • Anonymous

    That’s it, I’m moving to Arch.

  • http://my2cents4theday.blogspot.com Don Williams

    Damn…. I’m going to be on pins-and-needles waiting for this thing to come to pass!

  • http://hector-macias.blogspot.com Hector Macias Ayala

    I thinks its Unity, but think, its not the same Unity in any Linux forum full of trolls, than Unity shown in CES to serious people who represents serious projects and business.

  • Anonymous

    Seen the concepts around july and yes they are awesome. Cant say why they are awesome just that they are. <3

  • http://twitter.com/medgoode Matthew Goode

    “And you can bet your bottom dollar … that we’ll be sharing it with you here on OMG! Ubuntu! as soon as we’re allowed to.”

    As soon as we’re allowed to? I think Joey knows already…

  • http://www.facebook.com/semmuhun László Boros

    made me REALLY curious…
    i hope they will release something USEFUL and INNOVATIVE.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, Joey, so based on your interesting word choice at the end (…we’ll be sharing it with you here on OMG! Ubuntu! as soon as we’re allowed to.”), I take it that OMG has foreknowledge of what these announcements entail?

  • https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/YkpRdzJ ken.h

    Is going to be interesting to see what canonical unveils. Looking forward to CES as a whole too of course.

  • http://twitter.com/swapnil360 Swapnil Chitnis

    After 1 year, Apple will sue Canonical for a rectangular UI.

  • Anonymous

    i think the if linux gets better then apple will not  just selling on there own hardware but on others pc, and when it comes to video on what better it will not be mac it will be pc vs linux 

  • Anonymous

    Ubuntu phone that syncs with Ubuntu. Please!!!!!

    Ubuntu tablet that syncs with Ubuntu. Please!!!!!

  • Zombifier

    new icon theme new icon theme new icon theme new icon theme new icon theme new icon theme new icon theme

  • http://twitter.com/medgoode Matthew Goode

    I’m not sure if this has already been mentioned, but there is a typo in the banner that links to this page. The word ‘unviel’ should be ‘unveil’!
    See http://pic.twitter.com/Bbe4pqXC

  • http://twitter.com/jnashkov Jovan Nashkov

    I read on their blog about something with ubuntu in car, probably this going to be their surprise

  • http://opiniond.com/ Mariano Calixte

    you mean “stalk”?

 
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