Ubuntu Web: new project would unite Ubuntu and Firefox to stand up to Chrome OS

Free Web

For the last few months we have been talking about new flavors that could become part of the Ubuntu family. After the arrival of Ubuntu Budgie, the next one that was considered to be an official flavor was Ubuntu Cinnamon, which seems to have encouraged other projects and soon we could also have official flavors of UbuntuDDE (deepin), Ubuntu Unity y Ubuntu Education, which would be something like the discontinued Edubuntu. The developers who are in charge of the last two projects also prepare a third option, a Free Web that would be very different from the rest.

All the flavors of Ubuntu, the official ones and those that are not like Linux Mint, are complete operating systems, which means that we can do everything that Linux / Ubuntu allows us, among which is to install all its packages and desktop applications . Ubuntu Web would not be like that and it would look more like Chrome OS, Google's desktop operating system, but with very important differences. To begin with, it would be based on Ubuntu, to continue it would use the Firefox browser to work (and not Chrome) and it would also be open source.

Ubuntu Web would come in an ISO image

But there is something that they published yesterday that caught my attention, as we can read in the short thread that they published in their official Twitter account:

Hello everyone,
Thanks for the great answer. The original idea was to make a minimal Ubuntu-based ISO with a focus on web applications and Firefox, and provide simple tools to make it easy to create / package / install web applications. Looking at the comments here, I think some were expecting me to do it as a boot-to-gecko. Although I might in the future, that will have to wait as I manage @ubuntu_unity as well and we have a timely release in August. So it could happen at a later stage, but not right away.

Free Web will arrive in an ISO image. And why do I find interesting information? Well, because Chrome / Chromium OS and many "rare" operating systems come in an IMG image, which means that it does not get along as well in virtual machines or in installations via USB. Initially and if my impressions are not wrong, the Ubuntu Web developers are working to facilitate all this, which would mean that we could install this operating system on practically any computer and make it work in GNOME Boxes or VirtualBox, among others.

On the other hand, in the previous thread they also provide another interesting piece of information: Ubuntu Web will work with web applications and facilitate their installation, which will allow us to install Spotify, Twitter, YouTube and any page that can be converted into PWA. In addition, by not using a full operating system, this would work on computers with limited resources, which, together with the fact that it will be open source, will make the web version of Ubuntu an alternative to Chrome OS. We will see how everything goes and good luck to its developers.


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  1.   gerar said

    I find this union between firefox and ubuntu very interesting