Real Linux for your smartphone: Ubuntu Touch release 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4

8 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by readyblue
(ubports.com)

8 Comments

readyblue

8 hours ago

Ubuntu Touch is the privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system by UBports. Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0, a feature update based on Ubuntu 24.04.

Supported devices: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1; F(x)tec Pro1X; Fairphone 4; Fairphone 5; JingPad A1; Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen WiFi / LTE; OnePlus Nord N10 5G; OnePlus Nord N100; Rabbit R1; Sony Xperia X; Volla Phone; Volla Phone X; Volla Phone 22; Volla Phone X23; Volla Phone Quintus; Volla Phone Plinius; Xiaomi Poco X3 / X3 NFC; Xiaomi Redmi 9 and 9 Prime; Xiaomi Redmi Note 9; Zinwa Q25 (new in this release);

atmanactive

6 hours ago

Congrats on the new release. What makes a device supported or not?

readyblue

6 hours ago

Ubuntu Touch is community supported. so developers has to be found to port the device (assuming they had to own the device as well)

Canonical abandoned project years ago, yet they claim it to be their "most favorite child"

atmanactive

5 hours ago

In other words: if there is a person that owns that device and is willing to develop/port/maintain Ubuntu Touch for the device. Knowing that, which of the current devices has most developers dedicated to it?

readyblue

5 hours ago

Volla company have team of people working on support. they even sold their devices with Ubuntu Touch pre-installed. (And it is a German company and Germans wants quality, so they cannot afford to sell crap). so all Volla phones is and will be supported probably the best.

some core developers also have Fairphone 5 (some even a Fairphone 4 somewhere) so that will be supported well too.

mrsssnake

5 hours ago

"Real" here is very stretched, it is more on the Android than Fedora side, if we measure being "real" Linux as being close to popular desktop distro stack.

It is based on Hallium. And no Flatpak or swappable graphical environments here.

Still cool project.

readyblue

5 hours ago

it is more on Ubuntu side. Fedora is different branch (rpm package system), while Ubuntu is deb package style. Here Ubuntu Touch is using 'click' packages which is basically deb packages. so still more Ubuntu side than Fedora.

in regards of Android: yes it is using ADB as means to flash (like Lineage OS), but in order to change that, you will have to design such system from scratch and that is not easy for community based project like Ubuntu Touch is.