In what I think a very smart move to push Ubuntu Touch to more hand sets, Canonical will Sponsor the First XDA Developer Conference.

XDA is filled with great developers which I experience first hand with my Samsung-forsaken Galaxy Wonder i8150 that officially only have Gingerbread but now breathes ICS and even JB.

So building and developing a good relation with them is a sound investment strategy from Canonical.

Jono Bacon said : “From 8-11 August in Miami, Florida will be xda:devcon, the very first XDA developer conference. We are sponsoring the event and will be exhibiting there. We are delighted to be supporting such an awesome event. I will also be speaking at the event and delivering a new presentation called Building a Convergent Future With Ubuntu that will cover the vision and goals of Ubuntu on devices.”

You may want to check the Ubuntu Touch thread here.

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China has a new beast to boast, meet The Tianhe-2 aka the Milky Way 2, it is  the fastest computer on Earth with processing speed of 30.65 petaflops, reportedly has a storage of 12.4 petabytes and memory of 1.4 PB. 

This monster drinks and devours 24 megawatts to run properly.

Now the interesting part is, Tianhe-2 runs on Kylin Linux that is based on FreeBSD that was released back in 2007 while the newest version of Kylin use Ubuntu as base and is called UbuntuKylin since 2013. It just a matter of time that Kylin will be upgraded to UbuntuKylin, in my opinion.

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