Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-09 Thread Kamouni Mohamed
Really disappinted too and very angry to this deciwion, i bought meizu pro 5 and paid 150$ for clearance fees because i loved the idea of convergence!! Le 8 avr. 2017 03:48, "Wayne Taylor" a écrit : > agree completely on revenue model. > as I said 'we need a new canonical'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-07 Thread miguel pires
I really don't think crowd funding is going to work. Unfortunately to me, one off a lot of pp that have participated in the crowd funding for Edge, and have a E4.5, believing in the company (Canonical), i feel that this was a sort of betrayal. Betrayal in the phone/convergence, in the Ubuntu with

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 7 April 2017 at 05:26, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > > Will work on ubuntu phone continue? > >> >> >>> In a word: No. >>> >> >> Could it perhaps be rebooted as a community effort, and shared vision? >> >> > > > Yes, any Free Software product can be turned into a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-06 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> Will work on ubuntu phone continue? > > >> In a word: No. >> > > Could it perhaps be rebooted as a community effort, and shared vision? > > Yes, any Free Software product can be turned into a community effort. But if the problem is a lack of a revenue model, then I think adding a revenue

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-06 Thread Tony Scott
Melvin - the answer to your question https://plus.google.com/u/0/110699558853693437587/posts/7RHujp9u7oW -- Tony Scott https://tonyscott.org.uk On 6 April 2017 at 22:27, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > On 6 April 2017 at 21:49, Roberto Resoli

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 6 April 2017 at 21:49, Roberto Resoli wrote: > Il 06/04/2017 21:31, Melvin Carvalho ha scritto: > > On 5 April 2017 at 19:28, miguel pires > wrote: > > > >> https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for- > >>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-06 Thread Tony Scott
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110699558853693437587/posts/7RHujp9u7oW -- Tony Scott https://tonyscott.org.uk On 6 April 2017 at 20:49, Roberto Resoli wrote: > Il 06/04/2017 21:31, Melvin Carvalho ha scritto: >> On 5 April 2017 at 19:28, miguel pires

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-06 Thread Roberto Resoli
Il 06/04/2017 21:31, Melvin Carvalho ha scritto: > On 5 April 2017 at 19:28, miguel pires wrote: > >> https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for- >> cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/ >> >> *This is from the post from Mark Shuttleworth*

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 5 April 2017 at 19:28, miguel pires wrote: > https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for- > cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/ > > *This is from the post from Mark Shuttleworth* > > > "I’m writing to let you know that we will end our

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Andrew Penkrat
I really liked the idea of convergence. Ubuntu Phone also served me as a good fallback alternative for Sailfish OS. Now there's no choice for mobile and no convergent Linux at all which makes me sad. Some info for those interested in switching to Sailfish now: - Small list of officially

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread NeoTheThird
Me too. It looks good and behaves exactly the way i need it to. Sad to see it go. I never got why so many people hated it. On 05.04.2017 21:16, ajalkane wrote: Actually, I have to add that not withstanding Ubuntu Phone, I am personally affected because I actually like Unity. On Wed, Apr 5,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread ajalkane
Actually, I have to add that not withstanding Ubuntu Phone, I am personally affected because I actually like Unity. On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:15 PM, ajalkane wrote: > I'm sad because I always was huge fan of Ubuntu Phone's dedication to open > source. I'm not surprised

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread ajalkane
I'm sad because I always was huge fan of Ubuntu Phone's dedication to open source. I'm not surprised because they were (in my opinion unnecessarily) doing too much and going too much against the grain considering where rest of Linux ecosystem was headed, and it was clear that this kind of approach

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Vincas Dargis
2017.04.05 20:56, Jamie Gunn rašė: Sad news, so where do we go now? Could it be https://plasma-mobile.org/ ? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help :

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Eran Benjamin
When he says ditching unity, does he also mean the unity desktop? I actually like the unity desktop, there are many distros with good gnome desktops, I use ubuntu as desktop mainly because unity has matured nicely. Now, if only someone found a way to install sailfish on those reasonably

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Paul Tait
Can't say I am surprised. I think we all knew this was coming, we were just in denial. With the end of support for the phones and no new devices planned it was inevitable. I think we were hoping that phones would be able to continue in some form because of Unity8 but this puts pay to that too.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Martin Windisch
SailfishOS? - at least for Nexus 4+5 and soon for Xperia devices … (starting with the X) > Absender:Jamie Gunn<highlandboar...@gmail.com> > An:Mathijs Veen<mathijsv...@gmail.com> > Cc:Ubuntu Touch<ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net> > Betreff:[Ubuntu-phone] Official

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Jamie Gunn
Sad news, so where do we go now? On 5 Apr 2017 18:41, "Mathijs Veen" wrote: utterly gutted On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:28 PM, miguel pires wrote: > https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Yasmany Cubela Medina
This looks like a late aprils fools i really dont get a thing of that post On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:49 PM Nicolas Delvaux wrote: > This is especially confusing since just today there was another blog > post explaining what is being worked on for Ubuntu 18.04

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Nicolas Delvaux
This is especially confusing since just today there was another blog post explaining what is being worked on for Ubuntu 18.04 regarding X apps in a Unity 8/Mir world. http://gould.cx/ted/blog/2017/04/05/X11-apps-on-Ubuntu-Personal/ So even Canonical employees were not informed of this? Mark's

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread Mathijs Veen
utterly gutted On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:28 PM, miguel pires wrote: > https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for- > cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/ > > *This is from the post from Mark Shuttleworth* > > > "I’m writing to let you know

[Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-05 Thread miguel pires
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/ *This is from the post from Mark Shuttleworth* "I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu