Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 Are Not Dead, UBports Community Will Keep Them Alive

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

UBports’ Marius Gripsgård is well known in the Ubuntu Phone community for porting Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system to a bunch of devices that we wouldn’t even dream to request from Canonical.

In early February, the developer announced that he and his team at UBports managed to successfully port Canonical’s Ubuntu OS to the Fairphone 2 modular smartphone, joining the OnePlus One and Nexus 5 ports. Fairphone 2 Ubuntu Phone devices were showcased at MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2017 in Barcelona.

He also planned on porting Ubuntu Touch to the Nexus 6, Nexus 10, Oneplus X, and Optimus L90 devices in the months to follow, but yesterday’s announcement published by Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth on <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-to-stop-developing-unity-8-ubuntu-18-04-lts-ships-with-g… (read more)

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