Posts
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (38/2026): Two Releases and a Conference
Maemo Leste's 2026 "Excalibur" released, GNOME 51 including Libadwaita 1.10, too; with KDE Akademy currently happening. Sailfish OS 5.2 is nearly ready, good news with regard to the Pixel 9a, and more!
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MCF20: Flatpak support, sorta, kinda
It's weird, despite being a father now, I still manage to find time for mobile-config-firefox (m-c-f); fixing annoyances and sometimes even issues other people have.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (37/2026): September Lull
German emergency alerts working on Phosh, work on a significant Gecko engine for the Sailfish OS browser, etnaviv progress, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (36/2026): Pixel 3 calling
A bunch of hardware enablement news, progress on the Commodore Callback and dawndrums Divine D, the schedule of the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (35/2026): Funded Flatpaks
Camera support progress on the Shift6mq and Pixel 9a, The Sovereign Tech Agency announcing a major investment in Flatpak. The Jolla Phone has passed 15,000 preorders with 2,500 units already delivered, and gets an OS update with Sailfish OS 5.2.0.17. Also: independent volume control for media, notifications and calls landing in postmarketOS Phosh... and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (34/2026): Amazing Progress
A huge week for Fairphone 6 mainline kernel hardware enablement: first the main camera, then all three cameras, then audio — and VoLTE emergency calling has been tested end-to-end. Also: Phosh 0.57.0 is out, Sailfish OS gets a 5.2 Jolla Phone update, Tuba 0.11.0 ships UnifiedPush support, and someone is running Minecraft at a stable 25fps on a OnePlus 8T with postmarketOS.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (33/2026): NFC in Plasma
NFC integration is landing in Plasma Mobile, and Bazaar has been accepted into GNOME Circle, an official Signal Desktop ARM64 beta (.deb + AppImage only). On the hardware side, Dawndrums has received the Divine D MainPCB Rev. 1.1 and is sharing early DawnOS test results, mainlining progress on other (used) devices and more!