Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 released with support for over two dozen devices (including the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro)
Ubuntu Touch is a mobile Linux distribution designed to run on smartphones and tablets. And this week a new version is starting to roll out for more than two dozen supported devices.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and includes the latest Ubuntu security updates, as well as a number of mobile-specific updates and bug fixes. It’s also the first release based on Ubuntu 20.04 that’s available for Pine64 devices including the PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, PineTab, and PineTab 2.
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Ubuntu Touch is alive and well with release of version 20.04 OTA-3, now available on PinePhone
Ubuntu Touch is still kicking, and the development team behind the project released the latest version of the alternative smartphone operating system today.
Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-3 released today for compatible smartphones (list at the end of the article). The phone-focused version of Ubuntu and brings a number of stability improvements as well as support for new keyboard layouts, tweaks to the settings UI, improvements for Waydroid (which allows some Android apps to run on Ubuntu Touch), and more.
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Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-3 release adds support for PinePhone and PineTab devices
UBPorts has just released Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-3 based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with the latest security updates and beta support for PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, PineTab, and PineTab 2, adding to the smartphones already supported by Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-2.
As a reminder, Ubuntu Touch was initially handled by Canonical for desktop/mobile convergence, but it was dropped when the company decided to refocus its efforts on cloud and IoT, and the UBPorts community took over and eventually outed the first stable Ubuntu Touch release in June 2017. The developers kept on improving the OS since then with new releases from time to time, but note that it should still be considered experimental only for most devices, and will not be suitable as a daily driver for the majority of people.
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Release
Ubuntu Touch is the privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system by UBports. Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch 20.04 (aka Focal) OTA-3! Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-3 will become available for the following supported Ubuntu Touch devices over the next week