Articles about linux os

Linux is usually the last place to look for when dealing with a touch tablet. That's the truth, but things are about to change in future, as the coolest Linux distribution, Ubuntu, has launched 10.10 version with the uTouch custom user interface for tablets. The new UI brings up the functionality you need in order to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a tablet and be able to use your fingers to interact with your computer.uTouch gesture framework allows users to minimize, maximize, and restore windows,...

If you feel like your young kids need to learn about computers as earlier as possible you might be right, but a normal computer connected to Internet might not be the best place to start with. That's why a touch tablet for kids might be more appropriate, and HIPITouch is the first of its kind, featuring a 10.1 inch screen with a special designed interface provided by HIPICUBE Linux-based OS.As you can expect, to keep price down, the HIPITouch is not a high end table, so it probably uses an A...

Probably you haven't heard of SurfaceInk before, as I didn't till I read the news about them presenting a few interesting tablet prototypes, including a 12 inch capacitive slate powered by Ubuntu OS, with no modifications from the standard distribution. They only showcased the frame, as the prototype wasn't actually running, but it was very slim and sturdy build, featuring also a stylus, something you don't see much in today's tablets, but something SurfaceInk believes is mandatory for students ...

We haven't talked a lot about MeeGo here at AllTouchTablet.com (actually we've just mentioned it randomly in some news reports), mainly because it's an OS dedicated to smartphones, meant to launch sometime this autumn. Things are about to change, as MeeGo for Tablets Edition is about to hit the web.We came upon a short three minutes video demo of the MeeGo Linux Tablet Edition, which looks rather impressive. That's because it was programmed from scratch to take advantage of the touch capabil...

Even if the first netbooks started off with a version of Linux in just a few years from launch more than 95% of the netbook OS market is dominated by Microsoft, with Windows XP and 7. In the tablets arena things are quite different, as the iPad OS (iOS) dominates cleary, followed by Android and Windows 7. Apparently Canonical, the company that has brought us Ubuntu is working on a special touch optimized version of their OS for tablets.The software development phase is unclear right now, but...

If you look at the tablet pc news this year and then take a peak in stores you'll see that many of the models presented are not available yet. This has to do with the fact that the first generation of a product is always hard to get right. And because the stakes are high, as always, manufacturers want to ensure they get on market a product that won't break in the first days of use.What strikes me is that some manufacturers are taking higher risks, putting things like dual screens into their ...