Ubuntu Mobile
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 10:13.
Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing.
Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source project, gives full Internet, with no compromise. Custom options may include licensed codecs and popular third-party applications.
The product of Canonical collaboration with Intel® and the open source community, Ubuntu Mobile is the software that makes it all possible.
Ubuntu Mobile just works, and it works just right.
Ubuntu Mobile: who cares?
The folks behind the open source community-developed operating system Ubuntu are alll excited about Ubuntu Mobile. They view this as a technology that can turn Mobile Internet Devices (their CAPS) into a “new class of computers.”
This will all happen, you see, “via licensed codecs and popular third party applications.”
Sounds cool, but let’s do a real-world reality check here.
Unless the device manufacturers and the carriers come on board and truly open up their networks and UIs to these applications, we’re looking at nothing but niche, hacked applications from coder fanboys.
More (& a poll) here
Ubuntu Mobile: Who Cares? I Do
I know that by writing about this, I’m calling more attention to it than it should rightfully have, but I’ve gotta call bullshit on a certain blogger over at ZDNet, which I feel is loosing more of it’s credibility every day. In my opinion, ZDNet should really consider jettisoning this guy.
Then he goes and answers his own question…
The thinly veiled attack is bad form and ZDNet shouldn’t let people like this out of their virtual cages. Don’t ask me how, but a editorial bashing a new open source project on a blog about “IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband” is legitimized by pointing at the Skype icon.
More here