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Canonical Announcing Ubuntu Tablet Tomorrow?
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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They're giving linux a bad name.
Now you can have your privacy violated on the move!
When they say "Tablet" they mean "Pill".
Since the Ubuntu tablet will not have 'keys' in a physical sense; being a largely featureless slab of glass on the front just like everything else on the market, Canonical is pleased and proud to announce that 'keystrokes' will not be transmitted directly to valued advertising partners!
go s*ck a f*ck...
If it runs Unity then run for the hills. Seriously, how many users did they lose with that ugliness?
Can it be stripped and installed with Debian Linux?
people blast "aggregators" like Slashdot. The submitter didn't even bother to make it clear that, except for a couple of words, the whole summary is copied from the source.
There's a difference between quoting and copying, heed it.
Mark Shuttleworth wanted to develop tablet & phone OS with touch. He didn't have any way to get that built and tested, though. Shuttleworth just lied and said he wanted his "desktop of the future" to have huge buttons on it. Sure he did.
I can't believe so many people defended Unity as a desktop OS. Can't believe so many suckers bought it.
Will it run Linux?
I hope they will come up with some reason for the consumer to go out and buy an Ubuntu tablet. As things are, the competition is pretty strong. Android and iOS have all bases covered, with hundreds of thousands of applications, and with several years on the market, and with millions of deployed devices, and with the user base trained.
Sight unseen, I'd say that an Ubuntu tablet may not even win against a Windows 8 tablet. It still may be that Ubuntu people have some bright idea that hasn't occurred to Apple and Google, but that is not very likely. Price-wise, they are competing with a free OS (Android) that Google spends millions on in R&D, and with finished tablets that can be had for under $100.
Five minutes using unity and I was sure that the ONLY way it made any sense was as a tablet interface.
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Is this really the world we want our children to grow up in?
Stop relying on the Mainstream Media for information about these critical topics, and seek the truth out for yourself.
And yet when people used it on the Nexus 7 it was horrendous as a touch interface.
Tell me more about these "community-maintained distribution"s.
What ones are best?
i'd just buy a chromebook.
If you don't want to wait the countdown, there's already a high-res photo of the device available.
To be honest, I'm not much of a fan of Ubuntu anymore and that for many of the standard reasons cited here on Slashdot. That being said, I do not understand the ire which comes out every time anything is posted about Ubuntu. I dislike Shuttleworth as much as the next guy, and I think they deserve criticism for the recent privacy issues, but lately it seems like they receive the sort of comments here that used to include "M$". I keep waiting for someone to start complaining about anonial.* I guess it just doesn't look as cool.
*(Ah. I see. When I clicked preview, I discovered that the cent signs I used for Canonical don't display on Slashdot. Having tried to use other unicode characters, I should have known better. That explains why people who enjoy making a sport of hating Ubuntu haven't used it.)
The Ubuntu flamethrower?
If you think Unity is horrible on the desktop, just wait until you have to interact with it on a small screen. This is just one more nail in coffin of Ubuntu on anything other than servers, where there is no GUI or sound system for them to screw up.
The most exciting thing about an Ubuntu tablet would be if it means open source drivers for all the hardware. A reference tablet that anyone can install OSS onto would be great for tinkerers. (Or is the Nexus 7 already this?)
What keylogger will they be running on this one?
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
but it's another thing to have an interface that will work on it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen a style blueprint for ubuntu phones/tablets interface yet, only that it'll run on QT. Personally, I'd like a full gnu/linux stack on a phone (and I use the N900), but I just don't see how Canonical are going to compress the years of tinkering done by apple, android and maemo to make a consistent touch-friendly interface that works on a small device. I'm ready to be surprised, but I think most of us are going to be disappointed.
I think Jolla looks promising, although they've a lot to prove, and at the moment there is way more hype and vapour than substance.
http://www.htc.com/us/
they already had their desktop crippled into a near-useless tablet by Unity
Here I was hoping that it meant they were finally going to take their medication, and cure themselves of the disease that has given us Unity, Shopping Lens and other mistakes of the last couple of years.
I keep waiting for someone to start complaining about anonial.* I guess it just doesn't look as cool.
*(Ah. I see. When I clicked preview, I discovered that the cent signs I used for Canonical don't display on Slashdot. Having tried to use other unicode characters, I should have known better. That explains why people who enjoy making a sport of hating Ubuntu haven't used it.)
I think Niggerbuntu is starting to catch-on.
And fanboys are too dumb to see it.
They are trying to do exactly what Windows 8 is trying to do (poorly) by unifying desktop an Mobile under the same crappy Window manager and bloated kernel.
Whatever Shuttleworth does now, however shitty Unity is right now, I'll always remember my amazement in winter 2005 when I first tried Hoary Live CD.
That was the first Linux i tried where sound/network worked out of the box.
This guy invested millions in this cool project, and I had a blast using Ubuntu Desktop/Server/JeOS during many years.
Linux Mint wouldn't be exist without Ubuntu.
So thank you Mark!
CrunchBang and it will run several times faster. #!
Dear submitter,
Had you bothered to go actually look at the countdown timer, you would have seen the words "Tick, tock, tablet time!" in large print right there in front of your face, and you would have known to end the title of your summary with a period instead of a question mark, and avoided the whole "let me go make myself look like an ass on Slashdot" thing.
Thank you for your time.
So, is this going to lead to Half-Life on a tablet? Was this part of Valve's decision to release for Linux (read: Ubuntu)?
Sorry Linuxnauts, I live Linux, I still advocate it as a desktop platform for computer professionals (AKA not Windows 8s target auidience and people who hate Macs), but Real Linux users need to got to the mint factory or even put on a red fedora. I've been doing this "war" since I bought a external 56k modem due to the lack of Winmodem drivers for my old Packard Bell (European Version) Pentium III desktop system, and I'm not going to stop now. Now eat a rasberri pi with this moderation.
The site is busy cannot load. This shows that a lot of interest is in this offering.
That being said, I do not understand the ire which comes out every time anything is posted about Ubuntu.
I think the fear (one which I share) is over the mainstreaming of Linux.
Right now if you want to make your software available on Linux you need to either support many platforms, or more ideally just offer a source tarball. You get your applications from your distro.
If one Linux distro really takes off then you might find more and more applications that are binary-only linked against the libraries that particular distro uses. Suddenly you end up with less choice, because many parties would rather do it that way than publish their sources. The same thing would likely happen if Linux had a stable module ABI - suddenly people can still buy your server hardware if you don't publish your sources, and thus less source gets published. Selling a server without kernel support is a kiss of death for sales, since Linux has real market share in that domain.
Despite the obvious faults (Unity, default Amazon searches), Ubuntu still remains an enormous force of good in the FOSS world. I will buy one of their tablet/smartphone product because it'll probably be straightforward to switch to Gnome_Shell/KDE. But also, because it'll put Linux (proper, not Android) "on the map".
I'm writing this on an Asus Transformer TF700 to which Ubuntu has been ported fairly successfully. Slick machine by the way (downside is the proprietary cable}!
I think that if that were going to happen, it would have by now. Debian would have taken over, or Ubuntu, or Red Hat. But, instead, the success of each has had a ripple effect, as each works to imitate and/or provide alternatives to whatever bells and whistles are working for one of them this week. In other words, the GPL has provided a level playing field for competition, and there's no reason to think it won't continue to do so. The success of any given distro can't be entirely de-linked from the success of "Linux" generally, any more than the success of a particular microbrew can be de-linked from the success of microbrews generally, or a particular e-book from e-books generally, and so on.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
There's a lot of Unity hate going on, and I admit, when it first launched it was an utter failure. You couldn't resize the icon bar, it was missing a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts, searching for a program didn't allow you to directly launch with the keyboard and it was otherwise just generally unusable. I decided to give it another shot recently, however, and it's come a long way, even matured into a fully usable and efficient UI. I can auto-hide the iconbar, resize it, and the search box is fantastic! If you press the "Windows" key, it opens up the search interface. You don't even have to type the name of the app you want, just start typing what you want to do! For instance, if I type in "gam" brings up Steam, Minecraft and ScummVM. If I hit enter, the first item in the search results will launch. Then I discovered the new keyboard shortcuts. Hold down the Windows key and a keyboard shortcut cheatsheet will appear, and they are incredibly useful. I am now a fan of Unity.
I'm not an expert, but I play one on slashdot.
I think that if that were going to happen, it would have by now. Debian would have taken over, or Ubuntu, or Red Hat. But, instead, the success of each has had a ripple effect, as each works to imitate and/or provide alternatives to whatever bells and whistles are working for one of them this week.
Yup. My concern was more with the whole "don't abandon Ubuntu - at least they're popularizing linux" bit. I'm not sure I want to see any one distro get a huge majority of the install base. In my mind a distro being popular is the best reason not to use it - it keeps the ecosystem healthy.