{"id":67664,"date":"2013-01-02T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=67664"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T10:12:30","slug":"ubuntu-touch-support-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/67664-ubuntu-touch-support-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu touch support coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>A countdown clock on the <a title=\"Ubuntu\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359820-Ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a> homepage is hinting to the addition of a touch-based interface to the <a title=\"Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360310-Linux\">Linux<\/a> distro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo close, you can almost touch it,\u201d along with the ticking timer means that something regarding a touch-centric OS or feature will be announced at 8pm on 2 January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Slashdot last year, <a title=\"Mark Shuttleworth\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/318499-Mark-Shuttleworth\">Mark Shuttleworth<\/a> made it clear that a cross-device OS was planned, with full mobile and tablet support set for Ubuntu 14.04 sometime in 2014.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/ubuntu-countdown-teaser-hints-at-touch-support-01262734\/\" target=\"_blank\">SlashGear\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"5 popular Linux distros\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/55103-5-popular-linux-distros.html\"><strong>5 popular Linux distros<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Linus Torvalds gives Nvidia the finger\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52833-linus-torvalds-gives-nvidia-the-finger.html\"><strong>Linus Torvalds gives Nvidia the finger<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Raspberry Pi volume restriction lifted\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/55027-raspberry-pi-volume-restriction-lifted.html\"><strong>Raspberry Pi volume restriction lifted<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu teaser hints at a touch-based OS announcement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":32068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1799,7979,967,17564],"class_list":["post-67664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-linux","tag-quicknews","tag-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67678,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67664\/revisions\/67678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}