S01E02: New Accessories and UBports with Dalton Durst

In the second episode of the PineTalk Ezra and Peter talk about to Dalton Durst, Development Manager at UBports, about Ubuntu Touch in general and on the PinePhone more specifically. They also discuss the announcment of the ‘End of Community Editions’ and answer awesome community questions.

What have we been up to lately?

• Ezra:
  • Elatronion: YouTube, Odysee
  • Usergames (YouTube)
• Peter:
  • LINMOBapps: https://linmobapps.frama.io
  • Peter’s blog: https://linmob.net

Topics

Interview with Dalton Durst (Development manager at UBports)

• Dalton Durst is the Development Manager of the UBports project, which picked up Ubuntu Touch when Canonical decided to discontinue it.
• Context: Canonicals announcement to discontinue Unity 8 development (and thus Ubuntu for Devices/Ubuntu Touch)
• PinePhone Prototypes and related hardware:
  • Project Anakin
  • Project Don’t be evil
  • Airmouse
• How to help:
  • Translations: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/
  • Contribution Section: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/contribute/index.html
• How can people get in touch:
  • @UTonPine Telegram
  • See also “Get help” section on the PinePhone device page

PINE64 Community News

• PINE64: The End of Community Editions
• LinuxSmartphones: PinePhone Modem Firmware news

New Products (if any)

• PINEPHONE FLEX BREAK-OUT BOARD
• PINEPHONE microSD EXTENDER

Your feedback and questions

Due to time contraints, we could only tackle a few of your questions - please keep them coming. We might answer your question in the next episode!

• Orli on the future of Linux Phones
• Odineee: On the impact of NVidia’s purchase of ARM on PINE64 and about future Risc-V products

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