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Today, the 16th of May 2013, the second online UDS reached its completion, proving itself as successful with interesting sessions, numerous developers, numerous teams and an overall massive amount of openly-presented informations.

Ubuntu SDK, Core Apps, Unity 8 on Mir, Ubuntu Server, community roundtables, desktop polish are among the topics thoroughly addressed by the developers, online event accessible via Google+ to interested users from across the world with zero requirements (like for example, account requirements).

Mir and Unity 8 are software currently targeted for development, strengthening and refining, software that is to be the base for Ubuntu's exciting converged experience.

While at the online Ubuntu Developer Summit, the developers behind Ubuntu Touch, Mir and Unity 8 have been gathered into a video-session with the purpose of listing a set of probable availabilities of the mentioned Ubuntu components related to Saucy Salamander.

Ubuntu 13.04 ships by default Firefox, powerful web-browser that incorporates numerous features and non-default add-ons.

In the same time, via Ubuntu Software Center, the user is able to install Chromium, an open-source fast web-browser featuring numerous functionalities and non-default add-ons.

Across the latest months, the developers have worked on creating the Smart Scopes project, exciting project aimed at significantly extending the Dash's search capabilities.

Essentially, Ubuntu 13.10 will incorporate by default numerous scopes (data sources),--both local and online--, allowing the user to hassle-free search through both local and online data sources, such as Clementine, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Finance, Gourmet, deviantART, IMDb, etc.

Months ago, Canonical organized the first Ubuntu App Showdown contest, gathering interested third-party developers into an app-creation contest.

Basically, third-party developers created a significant number of applications (more than 140 usable apps), apps landed in Ubuntu Software Center (certain apps) and/or available via PPAs.

Changing themes, modifying the brightness, adjusting sound parameters are actions available via System Settings, application installed by default in Ubuntu (the desktop).

Yet, Ubuntu's converged vision is rapidly advancing with new features gained each and each week, converged vision that is to center a more modem, polished and fresh interface.

As a consequence, the developers have already started to work on a System Settings application for Ubuntu Touch, app that is to be used on phones, tablets, etc.

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.

Transparency and community involvement are qualities of Ubuntu, operating system that shares its development (blueprints, goals, could-bes, probabilities, etc) in the open, allowing interested users to fully grasp what, where, when and how of Ubuntu.

March 2013 saw the first incarnation of the online Ubuntu Developer Summit, Google+ Hangout-based event gathering numerous and numerous developers and participants into a captivating full-of-informations online experience.