The Ubuntu Developer Summit held earlier this month in California, US, was home to a wealth of discussion, demo and debate on all manners Ubuntu. Part of that extended to Linaro - the ARM-orientated software engineering company of which Canonical are a driving member - who showed off a port of Unity 3D running on an ARM Cortex-A9 Pandaboard using OpenGL ES - a "..subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded systems such as mobile phones, PDAs, and video game consoles." And its potential is massive.
A quad-core computer the size of a USB stick. A few years ago that would've sounded like a pipe-dream, but today it's a reality.
Canonical are putting a lot of effort into Ubuntu on ARM, and based on the small glimpses seen at this years ARM TechCon in California, the effort is paying off.
So the long heralded 'flood' of ARM netbooks on to the shelves barely even materialised as a drop, with a drop in demand for netbooks and massive growth spurt in touch-screen Tablet devices seemingly diverting attention elsewhere. PC company Hercules are pinning their hopes on a 'better late than never' approach with the launch of a new ARM powered netbook series dubbed the 'eCafé'.
Trim-Slice, 'the worlds first Tegra 2 desktop PC', is now on sale. Available in 3 versions - 2 of which run Ubuntu. More information, pictures and promo-video tucked away inside...
Okay, I'll admit that I'm a bit obsessed about Ubuntu on ARM and have been scouring Twitter and YouTube for any interesting news from CES. But I found a gem.
Charbax of ArmDevices.net has been at ARM Techcon this week gathering up all the latest news and developments ARM related. Amongst the many companies showing off Linaro-enabled devices were ST-Ericsson who demonstrated the MeeGo OS […]
Charbax over at ArmDevices.net poked us with news of a new video interview he conducted with Frederic Baille, the founder of the Ubuntu-based Linutop OS.
Excuse the dodgy pun but Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be a fantastic release for many reasons, not least of which is improved ARM architecture support. Amongst the many improvements the Ubuntu ARM team have […]
Our lovely friends over at ArmDevices.net nabbed themselves a great interview with Canonical’s ‘Partner Engineer’ Jerone Young who discusses the challenges and opportunities optimizing Ubuntu for ARM is bringing. It’s a great interview well worth […]
A new version of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (NBE) optimised for ARM-based devices is due for release in July. It’s called Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.7 and is based on the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release. A video […]