Ubuntu Touch

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Ubuntu Touch
Ubuntu logo
The Ubuntu Touch launcher, showing all applications
DeveloperUBports,
Ubuntu community,
previously Canonical Ltd.
OS familyUbuntu, Linux
Source modelOpen-source
Latest release20.04 OTA-5[1]Edit this on Wikidata / 30 July 2024; 3 months ago (30 July 2024)
Latest preview20.04 Release Candidate / 24 December 2022 (2022-12-24)[2]
Repository
Marketing targetSmartphones, tablets, mobile devices
Available inMultilingual
Update methodClick Update Manager, Image Based Updates
Package managerClick packages
PlatformsARM
Kernel typeLinux kernel
Default
user interface		Lomiri
LicenseMainly the GPL and various other open source licenses
Official websitehttps://ubuntu-touch.io

Ubuntu Touch is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system, developed by the UBports community.[4][5][6] Its user interface is written in Qt, and is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. However, the original goal of convergence was intended to bring Ubuntu Touch to laptops, desktops, IOT devices and TVs for a complete unified user experience.

The project was started by Canonical Ltd. but on 5 April 2017 its CEO Mark Shuttleworth announced that Canonical would terminate support due to lack of market interest.[7][8] It was then adopted by UBports as a community project.[9] The UBports project was seeded by Marius Gripsgård in 2015 and the source code was transferred to the UBports Foundation where it since resides.[10] UBports' mission is to support the collaborative development of Ubuntu Touch and to promote its widespread use.[11]

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  5. ^ Gripsgård, Marius. "I'm not giving up!". Google Plus. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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  7. ^ Sneddon, Joey (5 April 2017). "Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity". OMG Ubuntu. Archived from the original on 18 October 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  8. ^ Shuttleworth, Mark. "Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence". Canonical. Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  9. ^ Tiwari, Aditya (6 April 2017). "Unity 8 And Ubuntu Touch Aren't Going Away Completely, UBports Team Will Keep Them Alive". Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  10. ^ Gripsgård, Marius; Sprinz, Johannah (2017). "Ubuntu Touch is alive! Meet the UBports Community". Ubucon Europe 2017. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.31377.92004. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  11. ^ Sprinz, Johannah (29 January 2022). "Leveraging Human Computation for Quality Assurance in Open Source Communities". LMU Munich, Department of Computer Science. doi:10.5282/UBM/EPUB.91046. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.