The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding experience may be dead, but the dream of merging phone and PC lives on. Ubuntu Touch, the form factor-spanning mobile operating system intended to power the Edge, finally has a release date: October 17, alongside Ubuntu Linux 13.10.
The news comes courtesy of a Ubuntu Phone team mailing list message by Canonical technical architect Loïc Minier, as well as a blog post by QA community coordinator Nicholas Skaggs.
"We are exactly one month away from the release of [Ubuntu 13.10] Saucy Salamander," Skaggs wrote on the 17th. "As part of that release, Ubuntu is committed to delivering an image of Ubuntu-Touch, ready to install on supported devices."
"Only four and a half weeks to go, and phone 1.0 will be a reality!" Minier excitedly exclaimed.
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