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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!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (32/2026): Sensor Bonanza
A postmarketOS July update, Fairphone 6 "sensor bonanza", Jolla Phone batch deliveries continue with people sharing first impressions of Sailfish OS 5.2, non-adaptive apps are now hidden in Phosh by default on pmOS edge, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (31/2026): Reported Progress
Highlights of the past week: Progress reports on PureOS and the Mecha Comet, Phosh Development News plus a nice project by Phosh.mobi e.V, a video on the Jolla Phone 2, some nice hardware enablement news, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (30/2026): 24.04-1.4 and -2.0
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4 are both out, Jolla Phone batch #1 is shipping with Sailfish OS 5.2 notes published, huge Fairphone 6 postmarketOS advancements, Pixel 9a porting progress, PINE64 released the full PinePhone 3D files, and Plasma Mobile has a working Orca screen reader and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping
GNOME OS has been demoed running on a Fairphone 5 at GUADEC 2026, Phosh's immutable BengalOS booted on a Pixel 3a, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (26-28/2026): Rough Continuation
Quick and dirty three-week catch-up: the Jolla Phone finally landed in backers' hands at the Day1 event in Helsinki, FuriOS 14.0.3 shipped face authentication and Vulkan with swipe typing on the way, Phosh 0.56.0 is out, postmarketOS gets Plasma 6.7 and bigger boot partitions, and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (25/2026): Alpen Avocado and a flip phone by Commodore
postmarketOS v26.06 "Alpen Avocado" is out, and Commodore is back with a flip phone running Sailfish OS — at a price. Linux 7.1 released; Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Beta adds Nothing Phone (1) and notch support; KDE Plasma 6.7 ships, with Plasma Mobile improvements; postmarketOS duranium images gain a Waydroid sysext and Bazaar for Flatpak installs, and more!