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Canonical Announcing Ubuntu Tablet Tomorrow?

Posted by samzenpus on from the tomorrow's-tech dept.

hypnosec writes "Canonical has a countdown on its site that indicates a possible tablet announcement tomorrow. With the Ubuntu Touch developer preview launching this week, the announcement about a tablet or at least an operating system for a tablet from Canonical has, it seems, taken a backseat. From the countdown that reads "Tick, tock, tablet time!" it is evident that Canonical is going to make some announcement about tablets tomorrow."

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  1. Re:Unity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    If it runs Unity then run for the hills. Seriously, how many users did they lose with that ugliness?

    Not me. It's still Linux and I can still install window managers on top of Unity.

  2. Re:Will they just go away? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, contrary to your claim many people care. This is why Ghostery/NoScript/etc exist. Nice deflection though, shill.

  3. HTC has same countdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.htc.com/us/

  4. Re:Will they just go away? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Even better: based on Slackware, but with a well flushed out package base. The Slackware system is very nicely designed for noob or expert alike -- however, the lack of packages beyond a few hundred (perhaps thousands if you count slackbuilds.org) leaves plenty of people still scared off from Slackware. It's a shame; few systems leave things standard enough to not have to worry about nightmare tarball compilations for those packages you may still have left to compile by hand.