It’s been just a few weeks since Canonical announced Ubuntu for phones, but on Tuesday the company followed up by taking the wraps off the software’s tablet counterpart. Among the most notable ...

Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS for tablet computers as the company looks to extend its presence in the mobile space, a company executive said on Wednesday. Tablets with the Ubuntu ...

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet has a locked bootloader, which has prevented hackers from figuring out how to replace the version of Android that comes on the tablet with custom software such as ...

Canonical has not yet built an Ubuntu Linux distribution for tablets and will continue development of the OS for PCs and netbooks, company executives said. Fast growth in tablet shipments has not ...

Canonical this week released a software framework that brings multitouch interaction to the open-source Ubuntu OS, which could accelerate adoption of the OS on tablets. The uTouch 1.0 software stack ...

The Maui Project has been developing a set of free and open source apps and tools for a convergent computing experience that allows you to use the same apps on a Linux phone that you’d use on a Linux ...

Six weeks have passed since Canonical’s splashy debut of Ubuntu for phones, but for many here in the Linux blogosphere, the memory is still crystal-clear. That probably has something to do with the ...

There have been Linux tablets in the market for years if you consider that Android is Linux-based. There have also been attempts to put "proper" Linux flavors on phones and tablets, but most of those ...

Dammit why can't we just unload Andriod and use Ubuntu or Firefox OS, like we do with normal computers installed with windows. Are they like hardware wired to not allow installing other OS's? I assume ...

The first version of Ubuntu to work on desktops, tablets, smartphones and smart TVs will arrive in early 2014, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has said. Speaking to ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet.com, ...

We almost weren’t going to post something about this, but what the heck, it’s been a slow weekend for gadgets: Desktop Evolution is coming out with the first tablet PC running Linux. The De-Tablet is ...

We talk a lot about replacing Windows with Linux here at XDA, and it's something I personally advocate for. I've tried a handful of Linux distros over time and prefer them in many ways to Windows 11.