This week Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled that the
company is currently working on a new versions of its Ubuntu operating
system for smartphones, tablets and televisions
However the launch of the new operating system is still a few years
from being released and is expected to arrive sometime before the next
LTS in April 2014. The reason for the lengthy development is to make
sure that the new interface platform will be coherent across all devices
and will share the same core making it easier to develop apps across
platforms.
Each version for its individual platform will have its own
personality and appropriate interface and interaction model explains
Shuttleworth. Applications will also be able to recognise the type of
hardware that they are running on bail to switch to their appropriate
user interface. With the same Binary being able to present a user
interface for a tablet, a phone or a desktop PC.
Canonical Mark Shuttleworth explains:
“Everyday computer users are starting to do their computing
across a broader array of devices and form factors,” – “bring Ubuntu to
all the personal computing form factors, on phones, tablets, and
smart-screens.” - ”An application for Ubuntu in the future will have
multiple personalities. When it is running on a desktop computer, it
will have a different personality from when it is running on a tablet,”
No specific roadmap has been released as yet but more information
will be released over the coming months on the development stages that
will take place over the coming years. As always when more information
becomes available we’ll keep you updated.
