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Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Jun 2010 18:44 UTC, submitted by Jonathan DePrizio

Canonical recently announced that they are developing a tablet version of their popular Ubuntu operating system, slated to be released in 2011. This comes hot on the heels of the release of the Apple iPad, and the rumors that HP plans to release a WebOS-based tablet sometime late 2010. However, Canonical's foray into the tablet arena is fundamentally different from both the iPad and a WebOS tablet, and unfortunately reeks of a company failing to learn from their competitors successes and failures.

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RE[2]: Linux tablets will sell, but not Ubuntu based ones

by KAMiKAZOW on Thu 17th Jun 2010 23:43 UTC in reply to "RE: Linux tablets will sell, but not Ubuntu based ones"

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there's no reason (apart from NIH) why Ubuntu couldn't integrate the Tablet UX that will be created in context of MeeGo.

You mean like how Canonical adopted MeeGo's current netbook UI instead of developing its own Unity shell?

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