Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphone OS

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 04:53:27AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> After having just found and read the news report at
> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-30/google-could-be-split-up-as-search-monopoly-challenged/104473276
> 
> which includes reference to monopolies involving google and android and
> apple and its cellphone stuff and corrupt things with apple and google and
> safari, I am wondering as to what degree, Linux, as Ubuntu or otherwise, is
> available as an OS for cellphones, and, whether it can be installed on
> cellphones that have another OS as the default OS.

Canonical tried this with Ubuntu Phone for several years up to 2017 or
so, and then it wasn't working commercially so they ended up laying off
a bunch of staff.  I wouldn't hold your breath for them to put effort
into it again.

That said, I understand there are still people keeping that code alive,
so you could have a look at https://ubports.com/ and see if it does
anything for you.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]