Whatever happened to Ubuntu for TV's

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#1 March 25, 2013

I remember hearing about Ubuntu for TV's quite some time ago. Whatever happened with that?

#2 March 25, 2013

That won't come out till sometime in 2014. When Unity will be complete across all platforms.

#3 March 25, 2013

Did they ever get any hardware vendors on board?

#4 March 25, 2013

They would be unlikely to announce that until they were actually ready to launch a product.

#5 March 26, 2013

For more info on Ubuntu TV, have a look at the wiki page

#6 March 26, 2013

Remember that Ubuntu TV was based on Unity-2D which was suddenly cancelled by Canonical at 12.10 (in lieu of using LLVMpipe rendering of Unity-3D). I guess that leaves Ubuntu TV in a dilemma and requiring significant rework.

#7 March 27, 2013

Ubuntu TV seems to be the latest Duke Nukem Forever. I wouldn't count on any products being released.