UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Ubuntu 16.04 Base

[phoronix]

Phoronix: UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Ubuntu 16.04 Base

For those still having the desire to run Ubuntu on mobile devices, the UBports community today shipped their Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 release that migrates their base system from Ubuntu 15.04 to 16.04...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=UBports-Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-4

[padraic7a]

Well done to the Ubports crew and community! Moving to 16.04 is a great achievement.

I would recommend anyone interested in the future of Linux on phones to get involved. It's a very welcoming, and well run community and there's a role for everyone be it porting, developing apps or the system software, bug testing, writing documentation etc.

Here's to the great work ahead!

[DrYak]

Would dream of some significant monetary help being poured into andbox to help the "but my missing app" problem that full blown GNU/Linux phone suites have.
AndBox would really be helpful for UBPort, Jolla Sailfish (currently stuck to compatible with older 4.4 Kikat through myriad's alien-dalvik), etc.

[thebear]

Just tried this on my Nexus 4 (mako) device. It's a cool project, but far from useable as a main device (downloaded the webbrowser next as suggested but even that was a dissapointing experience).

I really do hope they succeed in the long run though as I'd love to run ubuntu on my main phone.

[thebear]

Just tried this out on my Nexus 4 (mako). It's a cool project but not usable as a main device. Hope they succeed in the long term though.