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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by rlpb on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:47PM (#14045476)
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)

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by nthcolumn on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:04PM (#14046064)
A 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... ;)
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by angry-hacker on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:47PM (#14046381)
And Wayland.. Wasn't it all because of phones and tablets?
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by stinkytaco on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:25PM (#14046615)
Wayland 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.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pyre on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:44PM (#14047509)
Which 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.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by angry-hacker on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:04AM (#14048305)
I think we both mixed up Wayland with Mir.

Most likely Ubuntu goes wit Wayland now instead of Mir.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by slitaz on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:11PM (#14046115)
It looks like you also have a charisma at telling dad jokes.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by nthcolumn on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:57PM (#14046465)
personally always preferred fvwm to unity...
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by angry-hacker on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:47PM (#14046386)
But how can I get a phone that can actually run the code first?
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