Ubuntu, the open source operating system that has proliferated over the past few years as one of the most popular Linux distros, is making an official push into the smartphone and tablet market. At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, one of Ubuntu’s heads, developer Mark Shuttleworth, announced that Ubuntu will be coming to a variety of [...]

Smartphones and tablet computers are becoming more advanced just about every day but for an enterprising user, a laptop is second to none. Luckily, there is no drought of business minded laptops on the market with more getting announced on a regular basis. The latest of such laptops is from Dell dubbed the Vostro V130. [...]

Many of the tablets that get released ready for market are running just a few different operating systems. At the front of the line we have platforms from Google and Apple like Android and iOS, respectively, and then we’ve also got BlackBerry with their PlayBook tablet – running the BlackBerry Tablet OS. However, what happens when [...]

Google’s Android mobile operating system has seen its way onto a whole slew of devices. While most of these devices are tablets and smartphones, the mobile platform has also emerged powering various netbooks. Some have argued that while the novelty of such a thing is nice it’s not very practical considering Android was made for [...]

If you have a HTC Touch Pro2 and are unhappy with the current Windows Mobile operating system, read on — A moddern by the name of sebbo90 has managed to port Ubuntu Linux onto the Touch Pro2. Now, normally when devices have operating systems ported to such devices they are sluggish but from the looks [...]

What you are seeing here is a new version of the Ubuntu Netbook, also known as the Netbook Remix. From what we do know, OpenOffice has been removed from the Remix, but it does have Gwibber, Cheese Webcam Booth, as well as SimpleScan. This is about all I have on this so far, …

What exactly is an OS Xbox Pro you ask? Well, a modder by the name of Will Urbina took the time to dissect an original Xbox dev kit and stuff it with two 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processors, a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT video card, 8GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD and 4 hard drives. [...]

Linux heads will be happy to hear that Ubuntu version 9.10 has been released to the public. This build is entitled Karmic Koala and will feature a faster boot sequence, updated audio framework and an all new Software Center that will make it easier to add/remove applications. The developers have said this build makes it [...]

It was only a matter of time before this happened — A hacker by the name of Jesse Vincent has successfully been able to get Amazon’s Kindle 2 to run Ubuntu 9.04. Now you may say, who cares it’s just an eBook reader, but perhaps this will unlock some Kindle 2 functionality that no one [...]

If you are sick of that old operating system that your mobile devices run on, check out the new Ubuntu 9.04 for Nokia N8x0 tables that has been recently made available. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is primed and ready for installation on Nokia’s N8x0 family of handhelds, which obviously includes the N800 and N810. It [...]