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Ubuntu For Tablets Announced

Posted by timothy on from the it-does-look-sweet dept.

hypnosec writes "Keeping its promise from yesterday Ubuntu has announced an operating system for tablets dubbed 'Ubuntu for Tablets' that it says will work on tablets of any size. Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features." The tablet version of the OS will also be presented at Mobile World Congress later this month. Also featured at SlashCloud.

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  1. Re:Nokia Tablet by dwater · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...real linux smartphone

    Two, in fact (three if you count the n950)...not to mention their predecessors which were Internet *tablets*.

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    Max.
  2. Re:oh canonical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    You didn't misjudge anything. You just didn't say ANYTHING related to that in your original sentence, there was absolutely no correlation to be made and anyone could've made up their own perfectly valid interpretation that had nothing to do with the ecosystem.

    If you want to say something, say it. It's not fucking hard.

  3. Re:I love Linux, I want Linux, but this isnt Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The developer info on the Ubuntu website says that you can use C/C++ for apps that need performance and QML/JS/HTML5 for lightweight, website wrapper type stuff.