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Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Per-Contact Ringtones, Built-In Theme Switching   Ubuntu   2024-01-30
Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Brings PinePhone Images, Initial Snap Support   Ubuntu   2023-12-29
Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal Expands Support For Additional Smartphones   Ubuntu   2023-08-01
Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Smartphones   Ubuntu   2023-03-27
UBports' Ubuntu Touch 20.04-Based Build Offered In New Beta/RC Channel   Ubuntu   2022-12-26
Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Released - Still Powered By Ubuntu 16.04   Ubuntu   2022-11-25
Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 Released - Still Based On Ubuntu 16.04, Adds Support For FM Radios   Ubuntu   2022-06-29
Mir 2.7 Released With MirOil For Helping To Migrate Lomiri / Unity 8   Ubuntu   2022-02-24
Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 Released - Still Based On Ubuntu 16.04   Ubuntu   2021-09-22
Ubuntu Touch Planning Path For VoLTE/4G Support   Ubuntu   2021-07-23
Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 Released - Still Using Ubuntu 16.04, 20.04 Migration Ongoing   Ubuntu   2021-07-14
Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released - Still Working Toward Ubuntu 20.04 Transition   Ubuntu   2021-05-13
Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Released As The Second Largest Release Ever   Ubuntu   2021-03-16
Ubuntu Core + Mir Is Powering Smart Exercise Mirrors   Ubuntu   2021-02-04
UBports Aiming For An Exciting 2021 With Ubuntu Touch   Ubuntu   2021-01-25
Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity   Ubuntu   2020-12-29
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-15 Released With New Device Support   Ubuntu   2020-12-16
KDE Plasma Mobile Drops Halium Support In Favor Of Open Devices   KDE   2020-12-14
UBports Improving Its Installer For Deploying Ubuntu Touch On Smartphones   Ubuntu   2020-10-14
Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 Released With More Phones Supported, UI Improvements   Ubuntu   2020-09-21
Ubuntu Touch Working On Better PinePhone, PineTab Support   Ubuntu   2020-08-21
Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri   Ubuntu   2020-05-13
Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri   Ubuntu   2020-02-28
Unity 8 + Mir Is Being Packaged Up For Debian   Debian   2020-02-06
Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January   Phoronix   2020-02-01
UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2020-01-31
Unity 8 Desktop On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Take A Year Before Being Usable   Ubuntu   2020-01-14
Jolla Making Plans For Sailfish OS In 2020   Operating Systems   2019-12-31
Ten Years Past GNOME's 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare   GNOME   2019-12-14
Ubuntu's Mir Display Stack Accomplished A Lot In 2019 For Being Discounted Two Years Ago   Ubuntu   2019-12-14
UBports' Ubuntu Touch Porting Now Easier To Newer Devices   Ubuntu   2019-11-25
UBports Begins Offering Ubuntu Touch 64-Bit ARM Images   Arm   2019-11-06
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Released   Ubuntu   2019-10-23
PinePhone Remains On Track For Shipping In The Months Ahead   Hardware   2019-09-05
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Released With Device Fixes, Support For Draft Messages   Ubuntu   2019-08-22
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Is Now Available For Testing   Ubuntu   2019-08-10
UBports Is Working On Ubuntu Touch OTA-10   Ubuntu   2019-07-31
Ubuntu Touch Nearing Updated Unity 8 + Mir, But Not Yet Full Wayland   Ubuntu   2019-06-08
Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Released With Better Stability, OTA-10 To Bring Mir 1.1 + Unity 8   Ubuntu   2019-05-08
Don't Hold Your Breath On UBports' Ubuntu Touch For Purism's Librem 5 Smartphone   Ubuntu   2019-05-07
UBports Ubuntu Touch Continues Pursuing Mir/Unity8, Broad Device Support   Ubuntu   2019-03-26
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released With Browser Improvements   Ubuntu   2019-03-06
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Won't Move To Mir 1.1 + Unity 8 Due To Qualcomm Binary Blob Issues   Ubuntu   2019-02-26
Mir Made Good Progress Over The Holidays With Porting To Debian & Alpine, ARM Mali   Ubuntu   2019-01-11
It's Still A Slow Process For Ubuntu Touch Moving To Mir 1.x / Wayland   Ubuntu   2019-01-09
Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Rolls Out With Keyboard Improvements, Browser Fixes   Ubuntu   2019-01-08
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Is Being Prepared With On-Screen Keyboard Themes   Ubuntu   2019-01-02
Open-Source / Linux Letdowns For 2018   Free Software   2018-12-31
Ubuntu Had A Very Busy 2018 But Not Everything Turned Out As Planned   Ubuntu   2018-12-30
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Officially Released   Ubuntu   2018-12-07
Mir 1.1 Is Releasing Soon With Experimental X11 Support & NVIDIA Binary Blob Handling   Ubuntu   2018-11-30
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Is On The Way With Browser Improvements, Oneplus One Fixes   Ubuntu   2018-11-26
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Planned For Release In November   Ubuntu   2018-10-27
Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Is Being Prepped With New Browser, Qt Auto Scaling   Ubuntu   2018-10-12
Ubuntu's Bring-Up Of NVIDIA's Driver With Mir Continues   Ubuntu   2018-10-12
Mir Is Back To Running On Phones, Thanks To UBports   Ubuntu   2018-09-08
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Ubuntu 16.04 Base   Ubuntu   2018-08-26
UBports' Ubuntu Touch Unlikely To Move To Ubuntu 18.04 Anytime Soon   Ubuntu   2018-08-02
Mir 0.32 Released With Much-Improved Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2018-06-29
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 RC Released, Upgrades To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2018-06-19
Mir Is Running On Arch Linux; Mir Also Progressing With EGLStreams Support   Ubuntu   2018-05-26
UBports To Work On Unity 8 / Mir / Wayland After OTA-4   Ubuntu   2018-05-24
Purism Shows Off Latest GNOME Mobile Shell Mockups For The Librem 5   GNOME   2018-05-10
Mir Working On X11 Support Via XWayland   Ubuntu   2018-05-01
UBPorts Ubuntu Touch To Be Supported By The Purism Librem 5   Ubuntu   2018-04-24
UBports Continues Work On Moving From Ubuntu 15.04 Base To 16.04   Ubuntu   2018-03-18
Mir Devs Are Still Working On An Example Mir Desktop Session For Ubuntu 18.04   Ubuntu   2018-03-14
UBPorts Is Working On Unity 8 For Debian   Ubuntu   2018-03-04
Raven Ridge, Vulkan & Another Valve Linux Developer Excited Folks This Month   Phoronix   2018-02-28
The Community Has Brought The Unity 8 Desktop To Ubuntu 18.04   Ubuntu   2018-02-22
UBPorts' Ubuntu Touch Ported To The Moto G 2014   Ubuntu   2018-02-22
UBports Continues Working On Unity 8, Developer ISO Coming   Ubuntu   2018-02-18
UBports Is Making Progress With Unity 8 On The Desktop   Ubuntu   2018-01-06
Ubuntu's Reformulated Desktop Was The Talk Of 2017   Ubuntu   2017-12-30
Wayland Made More Inroads In 2017   Wayland   2017-12-29
UBports Releases Updated Ubuntu Touch (OTA-3)   Ubuntu   2017-12-21
Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland   Ubuntu   2017-12-17
Wayland Had An Impressive 2017 With KDE Support Maturing, Mir Switching Focus   Wayland   2017-12-13
Mir Lands In The Fedora Repository   Fedora   2017-11-28
Unity 7 Hoping To Become An Official Flavor For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2017-11-24
Canonical Is Hiring Graphics Stack Developers To Work On Mir   Ubuntu   2017-11-15
Mir 0.28.1 Arrives With Fixes, Fedora Support   Ubuntu   2017-11-01
Mir 1.0 Appears Close, But No Wayland Client Support Yet Nor Vulkan   Ubuntu   2017-08-12
UBports Ships Its Stable OTA-1, Convergence Progress   Ubuntu   2017-06-14
UBports Has A Lot Of Work This Summer For Letting Ubuntu Touch Live On   Ubuntu   2017-06-01
UBports Continues Plotting To Keep Ubuntu Touch Alive   Ubuntu   2017-05-18
Unity 8 Abandonment, Windows 10 vs. Linux Tests Dominated April   Phoronix   2017-04-30
Could A New Linux Base For Tablets/Smartphones Succeed In 2017?   Operating Systems   2017-04-16
More Details On UBports' Plans For Unity, Mir & Anbox   Ubuntu   2017-04-15
Mir Developer: Anyone Interested In Native Wayland Clients In Mir?   Ubuntu   2017-04-11
UBports' Fork Of Unity 8 Plans To Eventually Get On Wayland   Desktop   2017-04-09
Mark Shuttleworth Makes More Comments On Ubuntu GNOME, Mir, Convergence   Ubuntu   2017-04-08
Some In The Ubuntu Community Want To Fork, Maintain Unity 8   Ubuntu   2017-04-06
Initial Planning For Ubuntu 16.10 Today At UOS   Ubuntu   2016-05-03