The Desktop Strikes Back

The Desktop Strikes Back

Article from Issue 155/2013

By the time you read this, the world will already know whether Ubuntu has succeeded in raising US$ 32 million in a crowdfunding effort to build a new Ubuntu-based smartphone. The project has been the talk of open source circles since it started. As of now, it looks like they will be around US$ 22 million short, but that’s the glass-half-empty assessment. The other side is: They have already managed to raise nearly US$ 10 million dollars to create a new smartphone – no small feat for a little fish swimming with the sharks in the sea of mobility.

Dear Linux Pro Reader,

By the time you read this, the world will already know whether Ubuntu has succeeded in raising US$ 32 million in a crowd-funding effort to build a new Ubuntu-based smartphone. The project has been the talk of open source circles since it started. As of now, it looks like they will be around US$ 22 million short, but that's the glass-half-empty assessment. The other side is: They have already managed to raise nearly US$ 10 million dollars to create a new smartphone – no small feat for a little fish swimming with the sharks in the sea of mobility.

If they build it, the Edge will come with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage – about twice the power and capacity of the latest Samsung Galaxy system. According to reports, it will be what experts in the industry call a "super-smartphone," meaning that you can take it anywhere and also plug into a monitor to use it as a complete computer system. And, the Edge will run the real Ubuntu – not some mobile knock-off system. Your applications will run on the little screen or the big screen, scaling automatically thanks to Ubuntu's innovations in display technology.

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