Tablet Crunch

There's been plenty of buzz building up around tablets running Linux.  The buzz was first centered around what was being called simply the Ubuntu tablet.  And then came the Mer Linux and KDE tablet that's being called Plasma Active. Trimble Yuma Ubuntu Tablet:  Price = $3695 Well now we have a new Ubuntu tablet called the Trimble Yuma.  The ...

*** UPDATE 2.7.12 *** I apologize for the confusion.  The Plasma Active and, what's being referred to here as the "Ubuntu Tablet", are two different tablets - two different Linux builds.  The Ubuntu tablet is of course going to run Ubuntu and the Plasma Active will run Mer Linux and KDE.  Thank you to those who ...

Dude... I think Ubuntu just killed the traditional drop down menu with HUD, Canonical's new menu thingy.  HUD (which is the acronym for Head's Up Display) is a radical new approach to menus and drop down menu searching and browsing. Basically, instead of clicking or browsing through a bunch of menus to find what you need, HUD allows ...

Canonical (maker of Linux Ubuntu OS) CEO Jane Silber has gone on record to say that the next frontier are tablets, TV's, and possibly even phones.  One player that's been missing from the tablet game thus far is Linux.  But that all may be changing as the new CEO is getting ready to release some ...