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!
It would be nice seeing Ubuntu in new Samsung Q1 Ultra