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2019-11-26

Ubuntu Touch: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated

Ubuntu Touch: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated

Remember the times when Canonical was working on a Qt-based desktop and mobile phone? Remember Unity, the default Ubuntu desktop that was about to be rewritten in Qt under the name as Unity8 shortly before Canonical killed the project and switched to GNOME? And Remember Ubuntu Touch, the Linux-based operating systems for tablets and smartphones based on Ubuntu with a QML-based user interface? Turns out that the Ubuntu-based mobile operating system is living on and thriving in an independent community under the auspices of the UBports project. Quite possibly, being driven by a community of passionate volunteers may be turning out as one of its strongest points. Time to try it out!

for full article https://medium.com/@probonopd/ubuntu-touch-reports-of-its-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated-8517f8984b77