Canonical and Qualcomm have announced a collaboration to bring Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core to Qualcomm devices, with the latter joining Canonical's silicon partner program.
    • Altomes@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      That’s my hope too, that doing it for Ubuntu means other distros can ride the coat tails, fingers crossed for Fedora

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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      7 months ago

      I wish they did this a decade ago, back when they tried to crowdfund the Ububtu phone - and subsequently scrapped all plans just because they didn’t meet the target. There was already a big dev scene in the community with people porting Ubuntu to Android phones - they could’ve easily partnered up with them, like how OnePlus partnered up with CyanogenMod a year later. I mean, Canonical did raise $12mil through the campaign, which showed there was not only plenty of interest, but also plenty of people willing to actually fund it.

      The problem now is Google and Apple have taken such a deep foothold on the market, it may be a bit too late. After the disappointment of the scrapped Ububtu Phone and subsequent loss of trust in Canonical over the years, I can’t help but be sceptical about this whole thing. I’ll celebrate if and when we have an actual, usable, flagship device in our hands, and not something gimped like the Librem 5 or the Pinephone.

      • MXX53@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        I think Linux phones would be super cool. And I dream one day it will become a properly usable reality. But what I really want is a properly supported, powerful ARM based laptop. Something approaching apple M series performance with the same kind of battery life. If Ubuntu can nail that, or another distro like asahi Linux, I will be happy with that and using graphene OS.

      • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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        7 months ago

        Yeah QC can actually make good chips so a Linux phone based on a NEW midrange or high end chip might actually have a chance. I’d switch if it could run F-droid apps.

  • Poe@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m interested. As long as it has an unlockable bootloader and I can install my own OS

    • Raimu@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      We’re talking about Qualcomm here, the company that made a deal with Microsoft to make Windows on ARM exclusive to Qualcomm SoC.

    • aluminium@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      No x86 is pretty much the only Platfrom I’m aware of where you can build a generic Kernel that will work with pretty much any hardware configuration out of the box.

  • WbrJr@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    That kind of means that Qualcomm will open source some of their stuff, so the kernel can communicated with the CPU?