Sunday, November 16, 2008

Ubuntu to develop a version for mobile devices

Mobile Phone chip designer Arm is collaboration with Ubuntu to develop a version of this Linux based OS for the portable devices like Netbooks.
This would be a new field for ARM which generally develop products for smartphones and mobile devices. They aim to make available the Ubuntu for this platform by the first half of next year.
ARM said that they are aiming to showcase first of the new generation devices running this new platform by the time of the Computex show in June. Rob Coombs, director of mobile marketing at Arm said in a statement: “It’s significant in that it is taking Arm onto larger screen formats.”

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