This is where it starts to get exciting, folks. The future starts now.
Ubuntu is an operating system for the server, the cloud, the desktop, and the mobile device. One single OS. That makes it different from Apple's OSes (Mac OS X on the desktop, iOS on the mobile) and Microsoft's current OSes (Windows 8 on the desktop, Windows RT on the mobile, and Windows Server 2012 on the server and in the cloud).
Screenshot of Unity7 running on Mir (click to embiggen).
At least that's the plan. It's not yet the reality because there isn't really a shipping Ubuntu for mobile. Sure, there's lots of preview releases, but only a shipping version is a shipping version.
So what needs to be done before we have full convergence to a single OS?
Well, one of the things Canonical has been working on is a replacement for the venerable X11 display server traditionally used in most GNU/Linux environments. They're developing something they've called Mir, from the Russian мир meaning “world” or “peace” (but not “world peace”) and the name of the Soviet space station , in keeping with a general space-exploration theme in and around Ubuntu, for reasons. It's also a German language pronoun (first person singular dative case), as in “show me,” because .. cntd
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