Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, the Ubuntu developers did not promote Ubuntu Touch images for a while, due to some regressions Unity8 regressions.
Now, Ubuntu Touch image #174 has been released, being stable enough. Among others, it comes with updated indicators, a few upstart-app-launch fixes, and dialer-app enhancements (most likely, support for call holding has been added).
The developers hope that all the critical bugs will be fixed soon and so, Ubuntu Touch images will be promoted daily.
For those who don’t know, Canonical has been working a lot at Ubuntu Touch, the mobile version of Ubuntu. While the initial plan was to make it available for all the Google Nexus smartphones and tablets, the developers have dropped the support for Galaxy Nexus, Google Nexus 7 2012 and Google Nexus 10, Ubuntu Touch being officially available only for the Google Nexus 4 smartphone and the Google Nexus 7 2013 tablet.
Despite the fact that the first stable version of Ubuntu Touch was based on Ubuntu 13.10, the development has switched to Ubuntu 14.04 and the latest Ubuntu Touch images are quite stable.
Mark’s Shuttleworth big dream is to reach full desktop-mobile convergence somewhere between the releases of Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 (between October 2014 and April 2015). Also worth mentioning: most likely the first smartphone with Ubuntu Touch pre-installed will be released in 2015 and will not be manufactured by Meizu, despite what was rumored.