Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm

Following yesterday's news of Canonical launching Ubuntu Pro For Devices, the latest mobile/embedded news in the Ubuntu space this week is Canonical partnering with Qualcomm...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Qualcomm-2024-Partners

[Eirikr1848]

So will UBPorts UBTouch eventually fall back under the Ubuntu proper umbrella for mobile and embedded devices?

[uid313]

Maybe Raspberry Foundation should partner up with Canonical too?

[SpyroRyder]

So will UBPorts UBTouch eventually fall back under the Ubuntu proper umbrella for mobile and embedded devices?

Officially and supported by Canonical? Probably not unless they somehow decided that they can make another mobile push. Which at this point wouldnt make that much sense considering they tried that and it went badly ebough that they threw all of it out and pivoted to mostly business customers. Plus, unity 8 was pretty cool but since being ditched its been largely surpased by Gnome and KDEs mobile efforts in terms of usability on actual devices

[varikonniemi]

Imagine if the next snapdragon would come with ubuntu launch day support?

[StefanBruens]

When two proprietary nightmares meet ...

Both Qualcomm and Canonical are well known for doing everything behind closed doors, opening things up only as far as absolutely required. The Qualcomm bootloader is a closed binary blob, Qualcomm Linux kernel changes are only available in Android repositories and hardly ever upstreamed. Canonical is quite happy to support this scheme, if it gives them any advantage.

[Blademasterz]

Qualcomm and Canonical, a good pair

[klokik]

Imagine if the next snapdragon would come with ubuntu launch day support?

Oh come on, they already demoed snapdragon based smartbooks, like what, fifteen years ago? Where are these now?
Qualcomm does not want you to have a well-supported laptop that you will use for years. They want to sell you, and your business new chips each two years, because previous ones are now out of support window and will have unpatched vulnerabilities. And the closer their software stack is, the better for them. Given that that neither of their direct competitors have technological advantage (except maybe Apple, thus Snapdragon X might be a bit better than existing qcom offerings) things are unlikely to change in the nearest term.

[Vistaus]

Officially and supported by Canonical? Probably not unless they somehow decided that they can make another mobile push. Which at this point wouldnt make that much sense considering they tried that and it went badly ebough that they threw all of it out and pivoted to mostly business customers. Plus, unity 8 was pretty cool but since being ditched its been largely surpased by Gnome and KDEs mobile efforts in terms of usability on actual devices

Lolwut? Mobile Linux user here. GNOME and KDE are nowhere near Ubuntu Touch on mobile. KDE is doing better than GNOME, but both of them are still nowhere near the usability and performance of the current Ubuntu Touch (and I'm not even including apps, of which UT has more as well, if we count proper mobile apps).

[V1tol]

Wake me up when Canonical starts doing something useful to Linux community. We didn't forget how they robbed us of Unity on desktop.