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Ubuntu 10.10 with MultiTouch Support.

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Canonical
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... is pleased to announce the release of uTouch 1.0, Ubuntu’s multi-touch and gesture stack.

With Ubuntu 10.10 (the Maverick Meerkat), users and developers will have an end-to-end touch-screen framework — from the kernel all the way through to applications. Our multi-touch team has worked closely with the Linux kernel and X.org communities to improve drivers, add support for missing features, and participate in the touch advances being made in open source world. To complete the stack, we’ve created an open source gesture recognition engine and defined a gesture API that provides a means for applications to obtain and use gesture events from the uTouch gesture engine.

Our multi-touch work began in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, when we worked to get additional touch hardware supported in the Linux kernel, particularly the Dell XT2, HP tx2 tablets and the Lenovo T410s laptops. With that in place, and active development in X well under way, we reviewed our options for gesture recognition in Linux. The Maverick cycle has seen us produce several prototypes for gesture recognition software and the Ubuntu archives now include the results of that effort.

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Touch will be part of the Ubuntu Netbook, Desktop and Light products from 10.10 and beyond.
Source.

cheers ...
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I am patiently awaiting the full release.....
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They just want to sell us touch systems I am looking forwards to give this a spin myself.

cheers ...
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Unity and uTouch

A peek video as how mutli touch works ...

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=446

cheers ...
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A peek video as how mutli touch works ...

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=446

cheers ...
Now that is more like what Windows should be for touch. I'd rather use this over Chrome OS. The Chrome OS presentation demo nearly put me to sleep because it looks so boring and unexciting to use. Free or not, I doubt I'll load it up on any of my machines.
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