Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and Tizen have been unveiled at MWC as Android challengers -- but the mobile industry is backing the wrong horses. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard ...

One of Linux’s biggest players is heading to mobile. The new Ubuntu has a gesture heavy interface and will be entering the market amid a number of mature operating systems. We have reservations about ...

The Ubuntu Touch operating system is being ported to more than 20 types of smartphones and tablets. The developer preview of the Linux-based OS was released for the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 ...

The developers who have been working to bring the Ubuntu Linux operating system to smartphones and tablets have released the first builds that don’t have to load Android before they can boot into ...

As a concept, the convergence of operating systems for different types of devices into a single code base seems like a good idea — providing it can be achieved without compromising the user experience ...

Ubuntu recently took to Kickstarter to try and fund their first smartphone, the Ubuntu Edge. Unfortunately, they did not raise the funds they needed for the project. Despite this setback, they are ...

OnePlus 3 has succeeded in generating so much hype worldwide that folks at UBPorts have decided to port Canonical Ubuntu Touch OS onto the smartphone. This however won’t be an official Ubuntu built, ...

Seven weeks after it was announced, Canonical has released images and open source code for the Developer Preview of the Ubuntu Touch OS, currently destined for Nexus smartphones and tablets. The ...

The last 12 months have been a pretty wild ride for the Ubuntu Touch operating system for smartphones. Canonical first announced the OS back in January, and following the release of a developer ...

A countdown teaser has been posted to the Ubuntu homepage that's currently set to expire on January 2nd. The banner bears a "So close, you can almost touch it" tagline, implying an announcement based ...

The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding experience may be dead, but the dream of merging phone and PC lives on. Ubuntu Touch, the form factor-spanning mobile operating system intended to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. That lead paragraph was probably enough to hook many of you, so if ...