Meizu and BQ, which you will be forgiven for not recognizing, will be the first manufacturers to release Ubuntu mobile devices, and Canonical claims bigger names will follow in 2015. Read more »
The Ubuntu Edge may have broken a record for the most money pledged in a crowdfunding campaign, but ultimately it failed to reach its $32 million goal by a long shot… Read more »
Canonical’s hybrid mobile-PC concept device has overtaken the Pebble smartwatch’s $10.27 million haul to become the biggest crowdfunding pledge recipient. The Edge campaign will probably still fail, but at least Canonical’s… Read more »
Nine years ago, the Linux distribution Ubuntu came out with the mission of challenging Windows’ status as the default preinstalled PC operating system. But, since then, the whole game changed. Read more »
The Finnish handset firm, which is reviving the Linux-based MeeGo operating system as the Sailfish OS, has just announced its first new CEO in a whole seven months. Read more »
Developers can now sink their teeth into the smartphone OS that picks up where MeeGo left off. However, the operating system will struggle to make its voice heard in a turbulent… Read more »
The British company behind the widely-used SCST target software stack is now part of Fusion-io’s ION Data Accelerator team. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Read more »
Canonical has shown off the tablet UI for the touch-friendly Ubuntu, with many of the features pitched squarely at the corporate market. Whether it succeeds there depends on how Windows 8… Read more »
No, it doesn’t seem plausible, but the Citrix-owned collaboration company Podio says 10 percent of its users access it from Ubuntu. That’s one reason the platform now offers Ubuntu One integration. Read more »
After Nokia axed development of its semi-secret Meltemi operating system, hundreds of workers in Ulm, Germany, found themselves jobless. Now they’ve set up a ‘talent and job offer’ campaign to hawk… Read more »