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Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets have started a solid movement in the Ubuntu world, announcements progressively paired with new and new features, abilities and tools.

It seems that Ubuntu Touch is to probably gain a full-spectrum approach, incorporating new original currently-in-progress components, including UnityNext, Mir and (probably) Click packages.

Essentially, the Click packages have been designed (presently, in a concept stage) in mind with being a packaging format/type for Ubuntu mobile applications.

Phones, tablets, desktops are among the interfaces supported by Ubuntu via the recently-announced upcoming converged experience.

Logging into Ubuntu, the user is immediately faced with content, opening the Dash, various lenses and categories reveal images, video-clips, text documents, folders, etc, overall content clearly exposed in the Dash.

Yet, with the converged experience and Ubuntu's future cross-form-factor capabilities, the content (and sharing content) becomes crucial as a link (as shared or not) between phones and desktops, tablets and TVs, etc.

Hours ago, the first day of the online UDS reached its completion, gathering numerous Ubuntu developers into a friendly series of discussions about the overall Ubuntu project.

Day after day, week after week, month after month, Ubuntu receives new features, new releases, new bold focuses, effort aimed at expressing Ubuntu as a powerful, versatile and solid operating system.

Recently, the developers announced an in-progress yet exciting stage of UnityNext running on Mir, interesting achievement presenting itself as a solid milestone towards a no-compromise upcoming UniyNext-Mir pair.

Moreover, the link between Unity 8 (the upcoming version of Unity) and Mir is solid enough to be demoed in a video-clip, solid state exposing the modern bundle on a 2880x1800 screen resolution (using Intel HD 4400 graphics).

Weeks ago, an Ubuntu-passionate user spotted a massively-sized billboard with the modern Dell-Ubuntu tandem in Kiev.

Essentially, in Kiev, Ukraine, there are presently big-sized banners advertising Dell machines running Ubuntu, showcases that triggered a significant amount of positive feedback across the internets.

Months and months ago, Canonical announced the Smart Scopes project,--as part of the online Dash initiative--, designed in mind with significantly extending the Dash's search capabilities.

Essentially, the developers are to probably implement in Ubuntu 13.10 a vast, handy and diverse bundle of default scopes, including Wikipedia, IMDb, Clementine, Audacious, Yahoo! Finance, etc, making them available at a press of a button directly via Dash home.

Speed, stability and an overall fluid OS are descriptions expressed by a significant number of users related to Ubuntu 13.04, release taking Ubuntu to a more optimized and powerful experience.

Starting on Tuesday, the 14th of May 2013, the second online UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) is taking place for three days, official online event that gathers numerous and numerous Ubuntu developers into a serious discussion about upcoming changes, plans and development goals for Saucy Salamander.

Months ago, the LibreOffice developers started a solid work on completely changing the old LibreOffice dialogs from the currently-used classic fixed widgets (size) to a new .UI format.

Essentially, the old dialog structure renders improperly the LibreOffice dialogs, (like for example) rendering very long buttons and fields for short text pieces due to multiple factors.

20 million users use Ubuntu, persons from across the world enjoying a powerful, versatile, modern and reliable operating system.

Among its numerous qualities, community involvement plays a relevant role on developing Ubuntu as a whole, Ubuntu-passionate users contributing code, translations, ideas, should-bes, etc.

Traditionally, the terminal features a spartan interface with powerful command capabilities, allowing users to manage operating systems via a direct text-based experience.

Final Term is a definitely interesting terminal emulator that takes the terminal metaphor to a superior, modern and innovative ground.

Essentially, Final Term adds into a terminal multiple and diverse functionalities, enriching the command-line utility with fancy additions, while rooted in both good-looks and usefulness.