‘Ubuntu Touch Port-a-Thon’: 25 devices and counting - dipalmadight1942

Just two days after Canonical's found of Ubuntu Linux for tablets, the company free the developer's preview see it had promised for both tablets and phones.

With images and installation instructions for the Link 7 and Nexus 10 tablets every bit well as smartphones including the Link 4 and Galaxy Nexus, the preview release was designed to show "how well the visual sensation of a design family crossways several form factors works," as Ubuntu developer Daniel Holbach explained in a blog post finish Friday.

Untold the mode Canonical lately solicited the community's avail in designing and creating a set of basic open source apps that will come preloaded along Ubuntu Phone devices, so it is now interrogative those with admittance to any of these four Nexus devices to assistanc test the Ubuntu Touch trailer images on them.

For all others, it has launched what it calls the Ubuntu Touch Port-a-thon.

'If you wear't mind tinkering'

Aiming to help get Ubuntu Touch many more devices, Canonical sporty launched its refreshing Ubuntu Touch Porting pass over and simultaneously kicked off its Port-a-thon, direct which it hopes developers will get the software up and running along the devices of their prime.

"If you don't mind some tinkering, maybe some kernel edifice, some configuration interfering, and flashing your device repeatedly, you might just be the person we're looking for," Holbach wrote.

Included in the porting pass around are instructions about how Ubuntu Touch works internally, how images are put put together, how to test them, and much.

Whole kit and caboodle in shape up

If the results so far are any meter reading, it won't embody long before Ubuntu Touch runs on the full gamut of computer hardware.

In point of fact, participants in the project own already indicated that a full 25 additional devices are now being worked upon, beyond the original four.

Included among them are the Motorola XOOM, the Sony Xperia, the Huawei Go up G300, the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Note II, the Asus Transformer Pad TF300T, the Dell Streak 7, and a salmagundi of HTC devices.

Visitors to Mobile River World Congress in Barcelona this hebdomad, meanwhile, can bound off the hard work and let the professionals cause it for them: Staff at Canonical's booth (81D30 in App Satellite Hall 8.1) are on helping hand to flash visitors' computer hardware with the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview.