Why distro's don't launch their Ubuntuphone-similar OS's versions?

Nicushor · 09-01-2015, 10:04 AM

Pronto,

I think that Ubuntu phone version is a maaajor breakthrough (while Android sucks very hard for me), why doesn't Fedora (for ex.) launch their version for the same Meizu or other generic phone platform?

Ihatewindows522 · 09-01-2015, 03:05 PM

Simply a lack of innovation on the part of (considering your example of Fedora) Red Hat. In this respect, Red Hat is much like Microsoft in that they have a great position now, why risk money?

IMHO, that's the problem with public companies.

sgosnell · 09-01-2015, 03:25 PM

That's a lot of work for very little return. The number of Ubuntu phone users is likely to be very small. I don't see why any other distro would bother with Ubuntu.

Nicushor · 09-02-2015, 06:33 AM

I wonder how complex it might be, does anyone have a suggestion what would be the general idea of "mobilizing" RHEL or Fedora. I imagine that you simply have to draw a mobile UI over the Fedora and then step by step delete the futile... add support to the phone, sms, mms protocols...