Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu Touch Launch Date: Oct. 17
Canonical is prepared to release Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu Touch on Oct. 17. The big question: Can the new PC, smartphone and tablet offerings — built on Linux — attract hardware makers and channel partners? Hmmm…
No doubt, Ubuntu maintains a strong following among Linux advocates. Canonical, like clockwork, delivers a new Ubuntu release every six months. Ubuntu 13.10’s feature list has not blown away The VAR Guy.
But perhaps PC makers are impressed. Our resident blogger is checking to see if Ubuntu PC providers like System76 and ZaReason will embrace and promote the new operating system upon launch.
The bigger questions likely surround Ubuntu Touch. This is the operating system that Canonical planned to use for its own smartphone/PC project — called Ubuntu Edge. But Edge died when Canonical’s crowdsourcing effort didn’t meet expecations.
So who exactly will build Ubuntu Touch smartphones? That’s difficult to say. Canonical has been building a Carrier Advisory Group to help drum up interest in Ubuntu smartphones. But competing in that market won’t be easy. Just ask BlackBerry (BBRY), which just announced a massive financial loss and more layoffs.
Memo to Canonical: If you’re set to rally channel partners around Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu Touch, The VAR Guy is ready and willing to hear about the strategy…
Strange article and it seems
Strange article and it seems that the VAR Guy should better document itself before writing on subject it does not master enough.
Ubuntu Edge was an attempt to finance the design and the construction of 32’000 special mobile phones and indirectly to talk about Ubuntu Touch.
The Ubuntu Touch project aims at developping an operating system for smartphone and tablet and is specially designed for the Google devices (Google Nexus 4, 7 and 10). Eventually, the Ubuntu distribution for laptop and desktop and Ubuntu Touch will merge (in April 2014) and the same OS will run on all those kinds of devices.
Several mobile phone operators already showed their interest in the project and considering the raise of Ubuntu computer sell in India and especially in China, all this makes a lot of sense.
Still, I am testing the Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 4 and there is yet a lot of work to do… So good luck to Canonical and the developpers dedicated to this project. It is a wonderful, but challenging one!
The reason Ubuntu Touch is
The reason Ubuntu Touch is important to me, is that now that Nokia has gone American, this will be the only mobile phone and tablet system without a direct line to the NSA.
Really, for a 9 month
Really, for a 9 month supported release? I wouldn’t. There is no point to these interim releases, Canonical please retire them.
>> Just ask BlackBerry
>> Just ask BlackBerry (BBRY),
But ubuntu is starting from zero market and BBRY was heading toward zero.
I still think that blackberry, if it can persist, gain more market for its phones. It already sold significantly more Z10s 2nd quarter than they did in the first; they recognized most of these sales in the 1st quarter so the 2nd qtr looks bad.
Maybe that is why Shuttleworth didn’t want to invest his personal fortune on “edge”- that would jeopardize his ability to carry ubuntu.
Open source always wins!
Open source always wins!