Tablet Running native linux....? ow yes!

[proxx]

Been waiting a long time for these events to become reality, rumours about a KDE tables and whatnot been roaming the webs for years.
So basically ubuntu is coming to phones and tablets, running native!
Finally something useful to carry around, ..its ubuntu too bad, at least its linux and I can run my own stuff on it, write a bash script instead of coding some stupid app to do primitive tasks.
It would also finally open up for running security tools etc.

From linuxgizmos:

Canonical’s Ubuntu Project confirmed it would release the first stable build of the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS on Oct. 17, as part of the release of Ubuntu 13.10. Ubuntu Touch will not only be available for Nexus smartphones, including the GSM Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4, but also for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets.
 
Back in February, an early developer version of Ubuntu Touch was released, and in April Canonical released Ubuntu 13.04 along with a Developer Preview SDK for creating apps that run on the desktop as well as Ubuntu Touch-based smartphones and tablets. Now, as promised, the stable version will be released in mid-October. In a blog post, Ubuntu Phone QA community coordinator Nicholas Skaggs confirmed that a stable Ubuntu Touch image will be released for Android-based Nexus devices on Oct. 17 in conjunction with Ubuntu 13.10 (“Saucy Salamander”). Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch will be fully converged in April 2014 with the release of Ubuntu 14.04, so a single build will run on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
In addition to supporting phones like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and LG Nexus 4, the build will also run on the Asus Nexus 7 and Samsung Nexus 10 tablets. It’s unclear whether a full Ubuntu for Tablets UI will be available, or if the tablets will initially run the phone version. A second blog post from Canonical technical architect Loïc Minier refers to the October release as “phone 1.0.” (Meanwhile, rumor has it that a next-generation Nexus 10 will be built by Asus instead of Samsung.)

http://linuxgizmos.com/ubuntu-touch-stable-nexus-release-coming-soon/

[vezzy]

This is pretty old news, actually. But it is definitely good. I don't think I own any smartphone or tablet that is compatible, though.

This is why I liked the Nokia N900. It runs on Maemo (Debian-based) and remains the only pure Linux phone to date, AFAIK.