Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphone OS

[Bret Busby]

On 30/10/24 07:15, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
Thank you for that.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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