Derwent sends along a Computerworld piece which begins: "The Ubuntu Mobile general expenses system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for world wide web devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt ontogeny humidity as an flipside to GNOME. During a rendition at this year's linux.conf.au conference, Canonical's David Mandala said Ubuntu Mobile has changed a lot over the past year... 'I worked on ARM devices for many years so a full Linux dispersal on ARM is exciting,' Mandala said, adding one of the biggest challenges is reminding developers to write applications for 800 by 600 screen resolutions found in smaller devices. 'The mark for GNOME [apps] is 800 by 600, but not all apps are. For this reason Ubuntu Mobile uses the GNOME Mobile (Hildon framework) instead of a full GNOME desktop, but since Nokia open sourced Qt under the LGPL it may value this as an alternative.'"

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