@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?

Do you already have tested Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi? I remember using Ubuntu Mate on a Raspberry Pi 2, which was not very performant, but fairly usable. I wonder how it would be with Unity8 and if there would be a big difference in performance between Raspy 2 and 3.

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

• 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?