Over the past five years, the diffusion and adaptation of Linux into mobile operating systems (OSes) has grown to 60 million units per year, with various mobile phone vendors, such as Motorola, NEC, ...

Is the world ready for another Linux phone? Canonical shows off a version of Ubuntu on smartphones at CES 2013. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional ...

Canonical made quite a splash at the start of this year when it announced Ubuntu for phones, but—apart from what it demonstrated at the time—we’re still waiting both for the downloadable image it ...

Purism is seeking to raise $1.5m to make the Librem 5 a reality. Described as a “security and privacy focused phone,” the handset brings some new ideas to the smartphone space. Unlike its main rivals, ...

While you may not recognize the name Canonical, chances are you’ve heard of its Debian-based Linux OS called Ubuntu. We spoke to Jane Silber, CEO of the privately held UK-based company, about her ...

Canonical plans to expand its Ubuntu Linux distribution so it could be used on smartphones, tablets and other touch interface consumer electronics, said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. “Everyday ...

Ubuntu Touch is mobile version of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution that’s optimized for phones, tablets, and other small touchscreen devices. Like many mobile Linux distros, it also allows ...

When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today that the team behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system would be dropping the Unity desktop environment and going back to GNOME starting ...

With Apple caving to Trump https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...min-bragged-about-demanding-app-store-removal and Google being Google, I am more interested in than ...

Ubuntu on a phone offers no fucking applications, which trumps handily the admirable lack of Java cruft and any other theoretical advantage that you may want to imagine for Ubuntu. It also offers no ...

Open source software is among the most high-minded ideas in technology, and there are times that it’s a smash hit. The internet loves to embrace open platforms -- it’s done wonders for Mozilla and ...

Hard on the heels of Wednesday’s unveiling of Ubuntu Linux for phones, Samsung has now reportedly confirmed that it plans to ship new Linux-based mobile devices of its own later this year. Rather than ...