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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 19, 2013
The countdown timer on the Ubuntu website has ended, and Canonical has made Ubuntu for tablets official. With the tablet version, Ubuntu now scales across just about every screen and device you coul...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 18, 2013
Canonical has laid out its plans to release Ubuntu phones at some point in 2014 -- but you don't have to wait that long to get a little bit of Ubuntu flair on your current Android device. Unity ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 15, 2013
Canonical today announced that the developer preview of its Ubuntu mobile operating system will be available for the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 on Feb. 21.
Ubuntu, of course, is one of the more pop...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 20, 2013
I don't use live wallpapers traditionally. I find that too often there's a trade off in device performance and or battery life to make it worthwhile. I've made an exception to try this o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 08, 2013
Here we are, finally, with our first look at the Ubuntu operating system on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It's certainly a vast departure from Android, but it is running on Android hardware, and we&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 02, 2013
And any number of hurdles still stand in Canonical's way, no matter how cool things look now
Canonical has been buzzing in our ears about Ubuntu as a mobile device operating system for a whi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 02, 2013
In its infancy for quite a long time now, software maker Cononical today is taking the wraps off of the smartphone variation of its Linux operating system Ubuntu. The interface will be distinct...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 27, 2012
Web browsing on the Nexus 7, using Ubuntu and Firefox
I love fiddling with things. Especially electronic things. I admit, I've fooled with ARM builds of Ubuntu on Android devices, or running th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 26, 2012
A lot of people love the idea of having a full-blown desktop version of Ubuntu on their Android tablet, including the folks at Canonical. Today we see that they have released a semi-official install...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 07, 2012
Back in December we first had a look at CMC (CyanogenMod Compiler), and it's come a long way since. What started as a command line tool to help download, sync, and build CyanogenMod for any...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
The folks at Canonical (the masterminds behind the Ubuntu Linux project) have been kicking around the idea of a mobile version of Ubuntu for about four years now. First hearing about it back in 2008...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
There's been quite a bit of buzz since the announcement of Ubuntu for Android, and there's quite a bit of buzz in Hall 7 here at Mobile World Congress. That's where Canonical is showing ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 23, 2012
There's been a lot of talk about Ubuntu since they let it out that they're working on some goodies for Android devices, and it got us to thinking. In the real world (you know, that one that ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2012
Check out our Ubuntu for Android forums!
Many a sleepless night has been spent by Android hackers getting Ubuntu to run natively on our Android devices. It's hard work, but fun and the end r...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2012
You probably heard the big news about Canonical's plans to build Ubuntu for Android devices. It's something I'm extremely excited about and have been tinkering with myself since the days...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2012
This, folks, is Ubuntu on Android. An honest-to-goodness, not janky or VNC'd, full build of the Linux distro powered by an Android smartphone.
We'll let that sink in.
Canonical -- the comp...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 22, 2011
It appears that a U.S. customer has gotten his hands on an HP TouchPad running Android, courtesy of Qualcomm. Details are a bit sketchy, but we can see an HP TouchPad, still in the protective fi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 29, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingWe've seen Ubuntu running on many an Android device, but it's especially interesting when it's on a tablet. Well, add the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to the list...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 06, 2011
We all love Google's new cloud music service, but I'm not loving that Linux was forgotten when the Music Manager client was written. It's one of those things where I'll have to sit down and conf...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 06, 2011
Since the Motorola Xoom can be rooted and unlocked it was only a matter of time before someone tried loading an OS that shouldn't be on there, onto one. As such, the above video shows us that Ubuntu c...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 19, 2011
The Ubuntu One service is a pretty cool thing. Think of it a Dropbox, but written by the open source people at Canonical. Maybe one of it's coolest, yet least known features is the ability...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2011
We've seen this happen in the past on many devices, but this is a first for the Samsung Nexus S. Yes, the beautiful Samsung Nexus S that runs Gingerbread out of the box has now been persuaded to run ...
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by afazel
Jul 09, 2010
If Windows 3.1 on your Droid isn't good enough for you, how about a modern desktop OS running on your Nexus One or Sprint Evo 4G? Braniac Max from NexusOneHacks.net managed to shoehorn Ubuntu o...
