Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical is changing top management in an effort to become more operationally disciplined, with founder Mark Shuttleworth passing the chief executive job to Chief Operations ...

And because the OS and the installed software titles are free, it's a win-win. On top of that, because it's based on Ubuntu, there's a world of other software that can be installed.

However, he knows of many core developers building Linux-based tablets using Ubuntu’s underlying stack — called Ubuntu Core — as a base. He declined to reveal any names.

Hewlett-Packard, the world's Number 1 PC maker, has also said it is providing thousands of PCs with Linux pre-installed -- but only for custom orders and not as factory-ready SKUs.

The ARM-based Ubuntu 11.04 Netbook beta is not specifically for tablets, but it could be adapted for the devices, said Gerry Carr, head of platform marketing at Canonical, in an e-mail.

Canonical made available on Thursday the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7.

Developer oklopfer says that the PinePhone builds of Rhino Linux are based on Ubuntu Touch 20.04, but features modified versions of the Xfce desktop environment, system keyboard, and patches to ...

The first beta of Ubuntu 12.04 has been released. The next major version of Ubuntu introduces the new keyboard-driven HUD menu system. I think Shuttleworth's comment was about such a feature first ...