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I'm with you. I'd like a fully free software stack across my personal devices, and I also thought that Ubuntu had the best chance of achieving this. I think the
by rlpb 10y ago
I'm with you. I'd like a fully free software stack across my personal devices, and I also thought that Ubuntu had the best chance of achieving this. I think the issue is in a business model that would work for Canonical.
OTOH, most of the hard work is done. My Ubuntu Phone mostly works. The stack is complete. I'd love to see interested people taking that code and keeping it going. I'd spend spare time on contributing if this were to happen.
(I'm a Canonical employee and Ubuntu developer, but not on the convergence/desktop/phone side, and my opinions here are my own and not that of my employer)
- nthcolumn 10y agoA number of canonical employees here I note - OP included. So what's the mood like 'a zillion lines of code and four years later' internally? Does juju look like any better bet? Go on - we won't tell... ;)
- slitaz 10y agoIt looks like you also have a charisma at telling dad jokes.
- nthcolumn 10y agopersonally always preferred fvwm to unity...
- angry-hacker 10y agoAnd Wayland.. Wasn't it all because of phones and tablets?
- stinkytaco 10y agoWayland solves a number of other problems than phones and laptops. It modernizes code left over from the dumb terminal world. It also should be pointed out that the dream is not dead. Another project (hopefully Gnome) can pick this up, so the effort isn't lost.
- pyre 10y agoWhich dream is not dead? Wayland? It's definitely not dead, as Wayland has both GNOME and Red Hat behind it. Ubuntu decided to roll their own (Mir) instead of also going with Wayland.
- angry-hacker 10y agoI think we both mixed up Wayland with Mir. Most likely Ubuntu goes wit Wayland now instead of Mir.
- angry-hacker 10y agoBut how can I get a phone that can actually run the code first?