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They might as well remove it altogether... Btw, when it's Canonical going to announce that they will stop developing Ubuntu Phone? The writing has been in the
by rpgmaker 11y ago
They might as well remove it altogether...
Btw, when it's Canonical going to announce that they will stop developing Ubuntu Phone? The writing has been in the wall for months and with Mozilla's recent announcement I believe it's just a matter of time. I think the vast majority of the mobile OS market has just moved on and is pretty ok with the two most popular OS options.
I kind of feel sorry for Ubuntu[1] and Linux[2] in general, they never had a firm foot in the desktop (market share-wise) and then this tectonic shift happens where everything goes mobile, a market where they aren't even a player, and to add insult to injury people stop caring enough about the desktop to even consider changing their OS to Linux in the first place.
1. I say this as a long time Linux user.
2. I know android is a modified version of Linux but here I use it as it has been traditionally understood in the desktop space.
- popey 11y agoI've seen a few comments over the last few days speculating about us halting development on Ubuntu phone. Nothing could be further from the truth. The software development continues apace, and more devices and more ports to existing devices on the way next year.
- mhall119 11y agoWhy would having fewer competitors make someone want to drop out of the race?
- quadrangle 11y agoAndroid isn't a modified Linux, it just uses the very same Linux kernel as any other OS that uses Linux. Android is otherwise this userspace thing where other Linux-based systems have X11 and such with Qt and gtk and other things. Although not perfect, this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux" Anyway, Ubuntu phone may not make it (seems unlikely), but it has more of a shot given the death of Firefox OS, not less. Ubuntu phone now has less competition in the alternative-mobile space.
- eropple 11y ago> this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux" I don't really agree. For desktop users, the DE matters a lot more than who made `cp`. For server users, the distro matters more because of the particular weirdness of each.
- nonotmeplease 11y agoGNOME is part of the GNU project, as well as emacs, gtk, etc.
- eropple 11y agoI am well aware of that. I don't use GNOME or GTK (indeed, on my Linux desktop libglib isn't even installed).
- cosarara97 11y agoWhat are you running, Alpine?
- eropple 11y agoI'm running Debian with KDE. The GNU tools are installed but by weight they're nowhere near the majority of the code on the system, to say nothing of the components I actually use. So calling that machine "GNU/Linux" instead of "KDE/X.org/Linux", given the relative importance of the individual components, would be stupid. Fortunately, we have the nearly universally understood "Linux" instead, and weird specializations like Android can be called something else.
- DataWorker 11y agoDisagree that people are 'pretty ok' with the two options. Ubuntu phone was a glimmer of hope for me, a very faint glimmer, but it was something. I remember people saying the compact disc was dead. History makes fools of many.
- ake1 11y agothe compact disk is not dead?
- mixmastamyk 11y agoI use 100gb blurays for backup.