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Report: First Ubuntu Tablet To Be Unveiled At MWC 2016 (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-word-on-Ubuntu-Glass dept.

prisoninmate writes: Canonical has been working on expanding the capabilities of Ubuntu Touch for a long time now, and it appears the company will reportedly unveil the first dedicated Ubuntu tablet device this year, during the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2016 event. Canonical has been working on implementing support for X11 apps on its Ubuntu mobile operating system, allowing users to run any graphical software that is currently in the Ubuntu repositories, such as GIMP or Firefox.

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  1. Re:how does it in any way an improvement? by youngone · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I don't really see how it is better. My question is why would I want to run GIMP in a touch interface.

    That's the same confused mistake Microsoft made with Windows 8, is it a touch interface, should I use a mouse, what the hell are these great big tiles for?

  2. Re:how does it in any way an improvement? by greenfruitsalad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there's gnu/linux and there's googlecrap/linux. i, for one, want as many parts of my OS to be free as possible. i don't really care if my image editor is free or not but when it comes to my OS and communications apps, i want those open and free.

    btw, in android, aosp apps have 1/10 the functionality of their closed sourced googleapps versions. i know, because i'm paying the bitter price of freedom. i run cyanogenmod without any gapps, with fdroid and amazon as my software sources.