• There is a brain dump by Marius, where he started with Raspbian.
• There are official Ubuntu Core images
• There are some unofficial Ubuntu server images
• There is also Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for Raspberry Pi

What would be the best to start with?

As far as I see Snappy Ubuntu Core has a very similar approach to Ubuntu Touch with a read-only filesystem and there is an official download for the Raspberry Pi. I wonder how this could be interesting for us? Could'nt it even be a good base for Ubuntu Touch at all, assuming we'd want to switch from click to snap packages, if that would be necessary then.

Are you guys interested in another meet-up in Munich? Maybe this time as a real coding workshop, working on Apps, Unity8, Halium ports or whatever?

@twinkybot the blog post is online: https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/the-ubports-munich-meet-up-on-march-17th-18th-108
The interview (in German) as already been published on 29th of March: https://ikhaya.ubuntuusers.de/2018/03/29/interview-mit-jan-sprinz-von-ubports/

Thanks to @twinkybot and Valtech GmbH for being a great host! I am working on the interview and blog post. Hopefully I can finish them this weekend...

@aury88 Lets bring Ubuntu Touch to the PiPhone!

I would love to see a video like that one for the phone!

Sounds like a good step torwards world dominance
A self made phone might be interesting for education purpose, too.

@adams Ubuntu Touch is a bit more than just Ubuntu + Unity8. Until now Ubuntu Touch has only be build for Android phones, so the partition layout is different (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1296/partition-layout). The root file system is read-only, there is app confinement, we access the hardware via libhybris (to be compatible with Android drivers) and so on (there are 400 UBports repos on github https://github.com/ubports).

In my opinion, as a first step it would already be nice to have raspy images with Ubuntu+Unity8 running for testing. Next step would probably be what Rodney says.

With this change switching between apps is much snappier. I couldn't find any regressions.

Just for the record: Offline Maping is possible with Pure Maps by installing OMS Scout Server.

@mymike and others: Creating a clickable template is as simple as providing a git repository with an app that showcases the use case. If someone would like to provide some (it looks like you guys already have something running), simply reply on the feature request: https://gitlab.com/clickable/clickable/issues/122

@adams Ubuntu Touch is a bit more than just Ubuntu + Unity8. Until now Ubuntu Touch has only be build for Android phones, so the partition layout is different (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1296/partition-layout). The root file system is read-only, there is app confinement, we access the hardware via libhybris (to be compatible with Android drivers) and so on (there are 400 UBports repos on github https://github.com/ubports).

In my opinion, as a first step it would already be nice to have raspy images with Ubuntu+Unity8 running for testing. Next step would probably be what Rodney says.

@mymike About the dependency problems see https://github.com/ubports/crossbuilder/issues/4. There are some hints that might help you with some of the dependencies and you might ask there for help with solving the rest of them.

@aury88 Lets bring Ubuntu Touch to the PiPhone!

I don't know him. But please just contact him, if he might be interested!

Thanks @alan_g for your feedback. Very appreciated.

@3arn0wl said in Construct a real phone:

Purism's Librem 5 developer's SBC

Could you explain this more or give us a link?

@flohack additionally to the root partition, running the kernel? So we would have two partitions, an ubuntu root / and a /mnt/data? What are system.img and ubuntu.img for? Where does the read-only UT rootfs live (one /?) and where the writable home?