Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 Are Not Dead Marius Gripsgård from UBPorts has taken to Google+ to react to the news and announced that he is not giving up on the platform and will strive to keep them alive for as long as he can. In case you haven’t heard about him, Marius Gripsgård is well known in the Ubuntu Police community for porting Ubuntu Touch operating system onto a range of devices. Just as recently as two months ago in February, the developer announced that he and his team at UBports managed to successfully port Canonical’s Ubuntu OS to the Fairphone 2 modular smartphone, thus getting the phone into the ranks of the OnePlus One and Nexus 5 with successful Ubuntu ports. The Road Ahead As for future plans, there were reported plans to port the platform onto Nexus 6, Nexus 10, Oneplus X, and Optimus L90. We can’t be certain about the status of these plans following the announcement by Canonical, but the UBPorts founder will soon be publishing details of his and his team’s efforts to keep the platform alive.
