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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (45/2025): Maemo Leste Daedalus and Sxmo 1.18
This past week: C-PHY camera support enables main cameras on OnePlus 6/6T with mainline Linux, openSUSE mobile images add full disk encryption for PinePhone, postmarketOS boots on BlackBerry KEY2 and SQFMI Beepy, Sxmo 1.18.0 released, a new Maemo Leste release based on Devuan Daedalus, and the FOSS on Mobile devroom returns to FOSDEM 2026. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (44/2025): Night Lights
This past week: Fairphone 3 camera enablement on postmarketOS, a new mainline driver enabling Night Light on 29 Qualcomm SoCs, Phosh closes its 1000th bug, FuriLabs release FuriOS 14.0.0 (based on forky), a new release of SailfishOS 5.0 (and SailfishOS for the Volla Tablet), and lots more software news. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2025): Plasma 6.5 and more
This past week: KDE release Plasma 6.5, DeltaChat adds calling, camera support for all three cameras on the Fairphone 4 with postmarketOS, PureOS 11 becomes (alledgedly) daily driveable on the Librem 5, and Fairphone contributed more code to Linux 6.17 than Microsoft! Plus some reading material, a few videos to watch and more. Enjoy!
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GNU/Linux on Tolino Tab 8
Editors note: The following is a guest post by Benjamin, who wrote in because he found an old blog post of mine aboout tablets that mentioned the Tolino Tab 8 - an Intel Bay Trail-powered device I ultimately gave up on. He did not, and here's what he did.…
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (42/2025): Mobian Trixie
This past week: Mobian Trixie got released, a nice UBports Q&A and some Sailfish OS Community News. Also, it's now a lot more clear what the FSF librephone initiative is about (thankfully it is not another AOSP distribution), a PureOS Crimson progress report and more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2025): More than just Librephone
The Free Software Foundation announced a Librephone project (which remains guesswork, as their's no public recording), a project to build a smartphone based on RaspBerry Pi Compute Modules, postmarketOS report September accomplishments, and way, way more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (40/2025): Ubuntu Touch 24.04 1.0, Phosh 0.50.0 and more numbers
Ubuntu Touch 24.04 lands and seriously modernizes Ubuntu Touch (and supports the Fairphone 5), Phosh sees some more polish and niceties with 0.50, another quarterly Update on LinuxPhoneApps.org, new things in the 6.17 kernel, and more! Enjoy!