Posts
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs
FuriOS update 13.0.9 adds Pipewire camera support (and other things), GNOME Clocks gains boottime alarms that work while suspended, Nemo Mobile demonstrates device locking on video, Sailfish OS Community News and a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, and way, way more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB
This past week:
- USB boot capability demonstrated for multiple Linux phones,
- a loaded postmarketOS monthly update,
- Furilabs FLX1 gains PipeWire camera support ... and way, way more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens
Highlights of the past week:
- mobile-config-firefox gets user-agent spoofing in version 4.6.0 to enhance site compatibility,
- Ubuntu Touch makes progress on eSIM and VoLTE support + Snap integration in 24.04,
- Another collection of Sailfish OS Community News,
- Hardware: Liberux Nexx PCBs arrive and OnePlus 6 gets unexpected JTAG access
- Phosh 0.46.0 released with lockscreen wallpapers and a lot more!
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MCF18: Dodging a bullet
Since the previous post in this series, mobile-config-firefox has seen not one, but two releases:
- Oliver Smith: "mobile-config-firefox 4.5.0 is out…"
- Oliver Smith: "less than 10 days after the last release --- happy to announce that mobile-config-firefox 4.6.0 is out:…"
In part, this due to me not noticing prior to the first release that the breakage I had observed with Firefox Nightly would come and hit with the Firefox 137 release.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers
This past week in #LinuxMobile:
- FuriOS now runs Ubuntu Touch apps,
- Phosh 0.46 release candidates tagged (final release expected March 31st),
- Megapixels 2.0 progress,
- postmarketOS announces 2025 priorities: reliability, audio, cameras,
... and more, including a mobile-config-firefox release!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies
Another week, another roundup: GNOME goes 48, more on the Mecha Comet improvements/delay, some Firefox things, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, SailfishOS Community News, UT and SFOS coming to the FuriLabs FLX1, an update on postmarketOS finances and more!
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MCF17: Getting back into userChrome
Before I started contributing to mobile-config-firefox, I always believed that, aside from bigger, code-named UI redesigns, Firefox's UI code would not change much at all.
These days I know better. Due to these changes, mobile-config-firefox does currently not work all that well with (current) Firefox 136, and I am reviving this little series, to keep me motivated, to hopefully attract contributors and to document the process.