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The Tablet Season Brings A New Ubuntu Powered Tablet

The year 2010 had been all buzz with tablets and a similar trend is expected during the year 2011 too. We have already seen a lot of Android powered tablets. But how does a tablet powered by Ubuntu sound? A Chinese manufacturer TENQ has launched a tablet called P07. The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant.

Open Source Drivers Take Kinect To A New World Of Possibilities

The video below shows a real life working model of a picture browsing application running in Ubuntu, controlled via Microsoft’s Kinect. It enables a multi-touch like control without touching the surface – something with which we are already familar from Sci-Fi movies.