Ubuntu goes mobile too!

Right before we launched the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, Intel went public with their sexy Mobile Internet Device prototypes, running Red Flag and Ubuntu. They’re Linux based, and use Nokia’s Hildon interface architecture, developed for the N770 and N800 web tablets… So it’s fantastic to see Canonical and Ubuntu come to the table with a new mobile operating platform effort, Ubuntu Mobile.

This is very cool news, demonstrating the power of shared efforts up and down the stack and between players, and the industry embracing GNOME as a mobile environment as much — perhaps even more so — as a desktop environment.

There will be discussions about Ubuntu Mobile at their developer summit this week. Sadly, the announcement was way too close to the event for many of the active upstreams to participate. Hopefully, this year, Canonical and Ubuntu hackers will be at GUADEC in force!

Canonical are looking for mobile hackers, too!

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on May 6, 2007 at 23:19, filed under Uncategorized and tagged desktop, embedded, FLOSS, gnome, ubuntu. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

One Comment

  1. Manrique
    Posted May 8, 2007 at 02:11 | Permalink

    It would be nice seeing Ubuntu in new Samsung Q1 Ultra :-)

3 Trackbacks

  1. By Links on May 6, 2007 at 13:21

    Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Project. According to the announcement, a detail project planning will start at Seville in the Ubuntu Developer Summit and the mobile edition will be released in October along with Ubuntu 7.10 [Via Jeff Waugh’s Blog] [IMG]

  2. By Planet GNOME on May 6, 2007 at 13:22

    Ubuntu goes mobile too!

  3. By Planet linux.conf.au 2007 on May 6, 2007 at 13:42

    Ubuntu goes mobile too!

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