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first thing I saw, I thought it's from Apple. But I was wrong. hu3]]>Jun 18th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
Ubuntu is really a polished operating system. I greatly prefer the experience over Win7, however I've yet to use OSX over a significant period of time. Mark Shuttleworth has promised that the next release (I think) will concentrate on small UX changes to really solidify the experience. Considering that 9.04 is already really solid, I wouldn't be surprised if 10.10 offers the *best* UX of all the popular desktop OSs.]]>Jun 18th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
I think it'll continue to grow and eventually reach a tipping point: it'll provide enough advantages to consumers to have them use it, then enough consumers will use it (as well as other non-Windows operating systems) to make developers consider porting their applications to cross-platform tools, then enough popular software will be available for it that those consumers that were previously reserved about using it will start to adopt it. From there, it climbs: as more people use it, more software becomes available; as more software becomes available, more people will use it.

I don't expect it to happen any time soon, but hey: Linux and the idea of open-source development are here to stay. It's certainly becoming more and more a popular approach to software.]]>Jun 19th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
Of course, they could tweak a few things to make it nicer...]]>Jun 19th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
I don't think these tablet cpus can handle that. Plus if I was going to run ubuntu on one of these bad boys I would like to allocate the entire drive to an ext4 partition.
Ubuntu is fast. It is free. It eats little ram.

Its too bad. I bet if it was lisenced with ubuntu it would be cheaper.
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I suspect only a slight deviation from the current plasma-netbook would be necessary for a tablet, what with the widgets already being touch-ready and all. :)]]>Jun 19th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
Canonical can, but it simply makes no sense for them to release an OS without useful applications.

And they are really small company to be able to supply applications themselves or organize enough 3rd parties.]]>Jun 18th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
I have Ubuntu Netbook Remix running on my O2 Joggler, but while the launcher is finger friendly, the capacitive screen is not precise enough to allow me to accurately hit the 'x' button to close a window, and many of the applications require drop down menus which are nearly impossible to hit exactly with a finger.

Otherwise Ubuntu is pretty amazing, especially with Flash running in Chrome.]]>Jun 18th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
Windows 7 release + Android releases + iDevice hysteria have pretty much drowned them out of the public consciousness (if they were ever there)]]>Jun 18th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
I pity the fool]]>Jun 18th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
But it just can't match the excitement/hype* of other OSes out there right now.

*This has no bearing on the OS' technical merits]]>Jun 18th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/ though frankly a plasmoid style tablet could be very cool.]]>Jun 18th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
Canonical is cool. I'd rather see them than a start-up. ]]>Jun 18th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 19th 2010 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/
Hopefully the next version will work more like deb files in ubuntu.]]>Jun 18th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 18th 2010 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 19th 2010 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/canonical-hearts-tablets-but-its-not-making-a-special-ubuntu-f/Jun 19th 2010 12:28AM