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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (01/2026): Happy New Year!
Phosh 0.52.0 released with two-finger swipe brightness control on lockscreen, Phosh e.V. publishes 2025 annual report, Jolla Phone surpasses 6,800 pre-orders, Nemo Mobile progresses toward openSUSE and OBS with Qt6 migration and device lock improvements, Kaidan 0.14.0 brings advanced media sharing, GNOME Maps 50.alpha redesigns sidebar and switches to Transitous for all public transit routing, several Year in Review posts, some review posts and more. Enjoy!
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2025: Year in Review
It's 2026... but what do we make of 2025 now? Here's my haphazard, rushed attempt to try to sum 2025 up.
Instead of going through month by month, I figured it would be better to go topic by topic.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (52/2025): postmarketOS v25.12 and Other Last Minute Goodies!
This past week: postmarketOS v25.12 released with Alpine 3.23, APK v3, GNOME 49, Plasma Mobile 6.5.3, Phosh 0.51, postmarketOS edge reworks USB stack (with MTP support), FuriLabs FLX1s in stock and shipping, MNT Reform Touch prototype debuts at 39c3, autofocus working on Jolla C2 with Unisoc chipset (with close-to-mainline), and Reflection local-first note-taking app hits Flathub Beta. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (51/2025): The Other Half reloaded
This past week: VoidPhone is a FuriPhone aimed at businesses (with MDM and such), postmarketOS publishes transparency report on contributor compensation from donations and now ships systemd built from unpatched upstream source code thanks to merged musl libc support, v25.12 testing phase begins, Nemo Mobile boots on openSUSE, Jolla's "The Other Half" extensible covers could add hardware capabilities like physical keyboards or extra battery, and Lomiri being shipped in yet another distro. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (50/2025): No December Lull
This past week: Divine D Rev 1.1 gains attention and other new devices, someone resurrects a Nokia N900 with supercapacitor "battery" and USB-C port, Jolla announces "The Other Half" extensible backcovers return at 10,000 pre-orders, mobile-config-firefox 5.0.0 launches with new about:mobile page, postmarketOS hardware CI and pre-release 25.12 call for testing, and more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (49/2025): Modal boats
This past week: Jolla Phone pre-orders open for €499 with MediaTek 5G, 12GB RAM, replaceable battery, and physical privacy switch—hitting the 2,000-unit goal in under a week, (some) audio finally works on Fairphone 5 with postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1 and 20.04 OTA-11 expand VoLTE to Fairphone 4 and remaining Volla Phone 22 variants, Divine D reveals Rev 1.1 hardware architecture, Phosh contributors meeting dates confirmed for May 2026, and Alpine Linux 3.23.0 arrives. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (48/2025): Rockchip-y Wallpapers
This past week: RK3588's phone news: Liberux NEXX secures new funding after failed crowdfunding, dawndrums wraps up a major Divine D development phase; Wayland Protocols 1.46 brings experimental text input improvements, Flathub explores sustainable app maintenance that respects developers rather than exploiting them, postmarketOS seeks wallpaper votes for v25.12, Ubuntu Touch Q&A 179 delivers, a Phosh meetup happening Thursday in Bonn, some FOSDEM foreshadowing, and more. Enjoy!