Canonical

Future versions of Ubuntu may include a technology that allows users to control the operating system without input device and instead show with their motions what they want the machine to do. Canonical is conducting corresponding experiments to achieve this aim.

Rather, with the aid of hardware sensors such as cameras, Ubuntu could "see" and respond to users' whole-body movements, recognizing when they are and aren't there and reacting accordingly.

According to Wednesday announcement, Canonical plans to gladden its customers with new version of the Ubuntu OS for tablet computers. This is a company’s move to extend its presence in the mobile space.  

Canonical is considering new features to add to Ubuntu platform in a move to make the Linux distributive look more competitive and matching to the industry leaders. The company is working on architectural changes to put Ubuntu into in-car systems, tablets, set-top-boxes, and what director of business development Chris Kenyon called "the digital home or something you carry around". But smartphones are not in the list of priorities.

"We're not thinking about the phone base," Keynon said.