ARM has announced a partnership between it and Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) to produce chips for netbooks. The chips will compete directly with Intel’s Atom CPUs and VIA’s C7 series. Canonical is porting Ubuntu to run on the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors and is set to be released in April 2009.
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ARM to release netbook chips
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Ubuntu to pay for upstream software updates
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Canonical’s CEO and founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, recently announced on his blog that Canonical will be “hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality.”
Hope fully this will result in a better and more consistent user experience in Linux. Mr. Shuttleworth also offered some other advice to free software projects:
- Make your site visually appealing,
- Do something different and do it very, very well,
- Call users to action and give them an immediate, rewarding experience.
Computerworld [via Slashdot]
IBM to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops Worldwide
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
According to a report on MarketWatch, IBM is teaming up with Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat to deliver Microsoft-free desktops worldwide.
“The slow adoption of Vista among businesses and budget-conscious CIOs, coupled with the proven success of a new type of Microsoft-free PC in every region, provides an extraordinary window of opportunity for Linux,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president for IBM Lotus Software. “We’ll work to unlock the desktop to save our customers money and give freedom of choice by offering this industry-leading solution.”
Canonical, which sells subscription support for Ubuntu, a Linux operating system that scores high marks on usability and “the cool factor,” will re-distribute Lotus Symphony via their repositories. Symphony 1.1 will be available through the Ubuntu repositories by the end of August. General availability will coincide with the Lotus Symphony 1.2 release expected to be available by the end of October 2008.
MarketWatch [via Slashdot]
Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 public release
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The first public release of Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 is now available for download. Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 is based on Ubuntu Desktop Edition 8.04 and is being built by the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded community (sponsored by Canonical) in cooperation with Intel’s Moblin.org community.
The new release is designed to take advantage of Intel’s Atom CPU and has applications which have been modified in order to make them touch screen friendly.
Canonical [via Computer World]
Canonical Unveils Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Canonical has unveiled it’s version of Ubuntu for UMPCs and sub-notebooks. It is a “reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable internet-centric devices.” It is meant to “get [users] online more quickly and [give them] faster access to their favorite applications.” It “leverages Moblin technologies optimized for the Intel Atom processor.”
Ubuntu Netbook Remix is set to make its first appearance on devices later this year.
See the full press release and a gallery of screenshots after the break.