Ubuntu Users Will be Touching, Tapping, and Sliding With Impending Update
Multitouch is landing in Ubuntu’s upcoming 10.10 release, with a particular eye on Unity, the netbook-optimized flavor of the popular Linux distribution. The new features are expected to eventually support a variety of touch devices, including Apple’s Magic Trackpad. Canonical, Ubuntu’s corporate parent, has already developed a software framework called uTouch, aimed at simplifying the…