A little over three years ago, developer Rudra Saraswat he presented to the public Free Web. At first it had to be an alternative to free Chrome OS and with the Firefox browser as the engine. Months later, things became more interesting, more promising, adding support for Waydroid, that is, running Android applications, but now we are going to say goodbye to 2023 and there are signs to think that the project, if it has not died, is about to be .
There is no statement saying so. In fact there is no statement. But if we go to ubuntu-web.org, the website where it was hosted and which continues to appear on social networks, the only thing we will see will be a 401 error from GitLab. Simply, the page is no longer available, and it cannot be downloaded from the link either (this) that is still in the discourse from Ubuntu. What happened? I have some theory.
Ubuntu Web can no longer be downloaded; UbuntuEd barely took off
Saraswat did and continues to do a lot. He is an official member of Ubuntu (Ubuntu member), and is ahead of the official Ubuntu Unity flavor. My theory, personal and non-transferable, is that he wanted to be part of the Canonical team, and he presented us with 3 remixes: Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Web and ubuntued. The first of the three already made him enter through the front door, and the other two... Well, they have been abandoned.
If we take a walk through their social networks, such as that of, we see that they are not closed, but for almost two years only retweets of projects that are given more importance have been published. For example, BlendOS, an immutable distro that allows you to launch applications from any Linux-based operating system (or that is the intention), including Android. Therefore, it may be BlendOS be the evolved idea of Ubuntu Web. Or that it is taking over the prominence that this one had.
What of ubuntued It was a little different. The intention was for Ubuntu to once again have an official flavor for education, and at the same time they considered resurrecting Edubuntu. Edubuntu has already re-entered the family, so UbuntuEd would be redundant.
Without any type of statement, we can only speculate, but the fact that Ubuntu Web no longer has a website can only make us think that it has stopped walking. It sounded good, but sometimes things just can't be.