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Mark Shuttleworth Talks Mir, Ubuntu Touch Marketshare & Mudslinging

Following a new release of Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth puts himself in front of the community for a Question & Answer session. This, folks, is what he had to say...

22 May 2013

Blackberry Investigating ‘Convergent’, Ubuntu Touch-style Future for their Mobile OS

Blackberry CEO Thorstein Heins, in an interview with ABC, has revealed that the company are currently pursuing ways to power laptops and tablets using a single device - a smartphone.

23 March 2013

Ubuntu Touch-Style Launcher Icons for the Ubuntu Desktop

Aiming to bridge the design divide between desktop and phone, DeviantArt user Aerilius has created a set of replacement launcher assets (tile shapes, etc) that adds some of the phone's swish stylings to the stale look of the desktop.

10 March 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 Still On Course for April Release?

Is The Decision To Ditch Ubuntu 13.04 Less Certain Than Before?

6 March 2013
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Ubuntu Announce Unity Next, Will Be Written in Qt/QML

With the announcement of the new Mir display server, Canonical have begun the next major, multi-device shift for the Unity project: Unity Next.

4 March 2013

Ubuntu Building Own Display Server, Unity To Switch to Qt/QML

Canonical has today publicly confirmed that they are working on a new cross-platform displayer server for Ubuntu. Called ‘Mir‘, the X Window Server replacement is tasked with ‘enabling development of the next generation Unity’. Which, in yet another […]

4 March 2013

Ubuntu To Discuss Move to Rolling Release At Next Weeks UDS

Canonical are opening a debate on whether or not Ubuntu should move away from its current release pattern in favour of a 'rolling release' model.

28 February 2013

Ubuntu Tablet Unveiled By Canonical

Confirming the expected, Canonical have unveiled a new 'tablet' face for Ubuntu as part of their focus on convergence across devices.

19 February 2013
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Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled by Canonical

An Ubuntu-powered phone has been unveiled by Mark Shuttleworth in London, today. Calling the product launch a "significant next step in our history", Shuttleworth demoed the device and spoke of Canonical's plans for taking the device to an already saturated mobile market. And the interface of the OS is, possibly more than the brand-name behind it, going to drive adoption.

2 January 2013

Mark Shuttleworth: ‘We Didn’t Want Ubuntu To End up Like Windows 8’

Mark Shuttleworth has spoken about the design and thought process behind the creation of Unity, and how it's impacted on Ubuntu multi-device strategy. Speaking at OSCON prior to the unveiling of Ubuntu's new integrated web apps feature, Shuttleworth ackowledged that there had been 'controversy' over Canonical's decision to pursue a "multi-device" strategy, with the switch to Unity in particular proving 'deeply unpopular' at first.

20 July 2012
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Ubuntu Developer Summit Kicks Off

The bi-annual Ubuntu Developer Summit has kicked off in Florida with a key-note address from Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth.

31 October 2011

Ubuntu Netbook Edition To Be Discontinued

Canonical has announced that 'Ubuntu Netbook Edition' - the netbook-orientated version of the Ubuntu operating system - will be 'folded' into 'Ubuntu Desktop Edition' for Ubuntu 11.04, with the latter being rebranded simple as 'Ubuntu'.

9 March 2011