Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!

jjconstr · 4 Apr 2020, 07:31

Hello, I'm Jerry. Don't have technical knowledge, just trying to use technology. Most of all leave the interference of the big companies. I have been using Ubuntu 18.04 for a few months and now will use touch when my Nexus 5 arrives. It feels so good to be free.

Lakotaubp · 4 Apr 2020, 04:08

@jjconstr Hello and welcome. Use the link in the post above your one for some useful information.

Opolork · 4 Apr 2020, 08:41

@jjconstr Greetings, Jerry.

jjconstr · 7 Apr 2020, 06:23

@Opolork
Belatedly, Great community!

incyi · 7 Apr 2020, 13:01

Hello World !

I'm "incyi", emb. software developer for around 8 years now. Mainly write in C for cortex-m microcontrollers.

Looking forward to work on some open-source projects. I just pre-ordered the PinePhone UBports edition.

Opolork · 7 Apr 2020, 13:11

@incyi said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:

incyi

Greetings, incyi.

Lakotaubp · 7 Apr 2020, 13:21

@incyi Hello, you may find this link useful https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

capa77 · 10 Apr 2020, 09:52

Hello all together,
I'm on Linux since the end of '90's. I'm not a programmer or software coder. I'm building websites and manage some web and mailserver's. Sometimes I make graphics if I need them for apps or websites or Linux TV receivers.
I'm using iOS since 2008 as my mobile OS. I never used android devices for personally/daily usage but I've a testing devices with lineage. I was always looking for Linux Projects on Smartphones and followed the development.
Now I cant wait no more and decided to get a device. After all BH versions of pinephone was gone, last week was a good one with new UBports version and I orders one of them.
To get some "practice" I got an old Nexus5. Last Day's I'm trying to get familiar withe the file system structure and looking for the theming possibilities. By the way I tested some Anbox and Libertine options

So, thx for your work. Have a nice time

Lakotaubp · 10 Apr 2020, 10:34

@capa77 Hello and welcome please have a look at the link in the post above yours for some useful info.

Opolork · 10 Apr 2020, 12:25

@capa77 Greetings!

A Former User · 16 Apr 2020, 16:51

@NeoTheThird
Longtime Debian desktop user & in pursuit of convergence and eliminating monopolies of ‘choice’ by supporting efforts that challenge these institutions. I am not a developer, but a dreamer, perhaps a seer and just excited to be part of a community that has brought such a technology to market.

mackristof · 16 Apr 2020, 17:15

HelloWorld,
my first distribution was Slackware on the middle of '90's. I'm a Java/Kotlin software programmer. this year I try to learn Rust, and when i saw it is possible to create native app with rust or Golang, I bought a nexus5 to install ubports \o/

I am interested in exploitation of OSM data/ geolocation app, dev tools, and many more things.

my first helloWorld app will be an assistant (a contextual touchBar ) of my laptop.

MacKristof.

Lakotaubp · 16 Apr 2020, 17:43

@mackristof and @broodingwatcher Welcome to UBports and enjoy. Have a look here https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

Opolork · 17 Apr 2020, 08:00

Greetings to @broodingwatcher & @mackristof.

A Former User · 18 Apr 2020, 13:48

@Opolork thank you! I ordered my UBports PinePhone the other afternoon, now the excruciating wait for it to ship is upon me. I’ve been using iOS for a while, but have always wished for an open source option. I use a NanoPC T4 for my personal computer and am looking for OS choices to use on its ARM64 Proc.
It would be amazing if I could run ubtouch on each of my devices!

libremax · 18 Apr 2020, 14:21

@mackristof Same for me, Slackware 2.0 precisely and its 18 disquettes. A lot of patience and knowledge was needed at this time to install GNU/linux.

hankschwie · 20 Apr 2020, 13:32

Hi!

I'm Heinrich aka hank, and have been around for some weeks now.

I'm an "interested layman", without any computer science training whatsoever (well, except for a Highschool Class way back in 1982 ;-)).
Using Ubuntu since about 2005 (warty!), I switched over to Ubuntu completely since Windows Vista was introduced.
I have been active in the german ubuntuusers.de forum since 2005, and act as wiki moderator since 2009.
Last year I got my hands on a used Fairphone2, (already had one running the open source fairphone version) and tried Ubuntu Touch. Since then I'm hooked to it, bought a new bq HD m10 just for UT, and did an almost complete overhaul of the https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch section over at ubuntuusers.de over the last weeks - (might be interesting for people who speak, or at least read, German).

Thanks for the help I was able to get from you so far! Hope I can give something back.

Lakotaubp · 20 Apr 2020, 13:59

@hankschwie Hello guess as you've been her a while this may not be that useful but still https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

Opolork · 20 Apr 2020, 14:34

Greetings, @hankschwie.

mackristof · 22 Apr 2020, 06:05

@libremax so true. a long road from slack 2.0 to ubports on your phone