News - Ubuntu’s touch enabled interface to be revealed today

[HEXUS]

Touch edition of the “world’s favourite free OS” will be revealed at 6PM.

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[TJM DW]

Just to note, Unity hasn't contained Amazon ads (which can be easily turned off) since it's first release, only since 12.10 late last year.

[hesham1516]

I thought Ubuntu already had a touch enabled interface with that silly interface they put on with Ubuntu 11 onwards.

[mtyson]

Ubuntu has now landed on Android smartphones says the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20891868
The Ubuntu home page currently has a big banner with 00:00:00 on it... It's been like that for the last 23 minutes, not very informative.
Here's Ubuntu's page about it; http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

[benzeman]

This has been around for a while, unless they're making it more "open" now, providing ROMs for more devices.

[MSIC]

I was very dismissive of the principle, and am still not keen on the idea of a 'desktop on the phone' (brings back too many memories of WinCE...) however I just saw the video on Engadget, and was pretty impressed.