Ubuntu Mobile Announced

Placid writes "The BBC has up an article detailing the 'Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded' project which was announced by Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu's CTO, on the Ubuntu developers mailing list. Zimmerman stated that 'These devices place new demands on open-source software and require innovative graphical interfaces, improved power management and better responsiveness.' According to the article, Intel will have their finger in the pie too, as they've recently announced a prototype device running Ubuntu. Part of the project's goal is to maximise the power saving abilities of a planned low-energy chip codenamed Silverthorn. The chip will be just one-seventh the size of normal chips, and consume only 10% of the power of existing processor. What does this mean for projects such as OpenMoko? Healthy competition, or the beginning of the end?"

Comments

Ohhh, embeded you say.

[jusDfaqs]

Now i get to see exactly how fast I can txt "sudo aptitude update -y && updatedb"

SMIRK

But...

[AltGrendel]

...will it run Beyrl?

...or

[Anonymous Coward]

"Healthy competition, or the beginning of the end?"

...or a false dilemma?

Re:Competition

[link7]

I'm sure it will, and don't call me Shirley.

Re:At first glance, I thought that it was a car!

[MrNiceguy_KS]

The Batmobile runs on bats? No wonder you never see Batman stopping by the gas station.

Re:More like Maemo than OpenMoko

[Nom du Keyboard]

At some point, somewhere, the entire internet will be found to be illegal.

That's because it will all be echoing: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C0