Posts
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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.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2025): libadwaita 1.7 and news from Sxmo
This past week in #LinuxMobile:
- Purism share Librem 5 Crimson progress,
- libadwaita 1.7 brings new widget and makes creating convergent GNOME apps possible without having a device at hand,
- Sxmo introduce an intuitive getting-started guide with gesture videos,
- Sailfish OS community ports now available for 10 different devices (and a NewPipe port),
- Lomiri on Mir 2.20 getting closer,
- postmarketOS adds the COSMIC desktop environment to edge repositories.
Plus: numerous app updates, kernel developments, and community contributions across the ecosystem! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title
Two weeks full of exciting progress in the mobile Linux ecosystem!
- The FLX1 phone gets display-out capability with full GNOME shell support, promising a superior desktop experience when connected to external displays,
- more examples of Camera support on the OnePlus 6(T),
- Ubuntu Touch celebrates its OTA-8 Focal release with much-needed WPA3 support,
- Sailfish OS 5.0 Tampella officially launches alongside the Jolla C2 MWC debut (+ more Community News),
- postmarketOS share the progress they've made in February,
- the Mecha Comet goes +1 (and thus better, but later),
- and way, way more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2025): Cameras and Project Updates
Mobian gives an update on present and future changes, an interesting Ubuntu Touch Q&A, another collection of Sailfish Community News, some Flathub news and more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2025): Reviews and Improvements
FOSDEM reports in blog and podcast format by postmarketOS, a new OS, a FLX1 review by a known YouTuber, Lima improvements, some last minute camera hacks, and way more! Enjoy!