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, ...

The latest postmarketOS 25.12 release now uses Alpine Linux 3.23 as its foundation, and switches to version 3 of the Alpine ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a world dominated by iOS and junk-food-inspired Android operating systems, Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, feel there's room for a mobile version of its user-friendly Linux distribution. However, ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. OK, people. It’s time to get your mobile geek on. The Ubuntu Edge is a crazy new project for smartphone fanatics. Wouldn’t it be great to ...

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 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 ...

I think the point is that Ubuntu is becoming an operating system and community that is beyond the usual 'Linux distro' niche. If you asked a regular person whether a new computer needs an 'operating ...

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 ...