LINux on MOBile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (10/2026): Slow Spring

2026-03-08T23:28:32+00:00

This past week: Jolla at Mobile World Congress, GTK 4.22 released with improved SVG support and reduced motion option, some Phosh and Ubuntu Touch news and more. Enjoy!</p> </span>

Commentary in italics.</em></p>

Worth Reading</h3>

Liliputing: The new Jolla Phone with Sailfish OS is on track to start shipping in the first half of 2026</a></li>
WIRED: The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone</a></li> </ul> </li>
foss2go.com: Motorola and GrapheneOS partnership announced</a></li> </ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Sailfish OS & Proton Mail – New native bridge app available! (Continuum Gaming E511)</a></li>
Sucharek: How to install postmarketOS on Poco F3 (Linux on a Smartphone)</a></li>
Actualia tech: "Fedora on smartphones, the Pocketblue community project!"</a></li>
SAMTIME: I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 - YouTube</a></li> </ul> </li>
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185</a></li>
RTP Tech Tips: Age Verification Required In Linux 2027</a></li> </ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

UndeadLeech: "Catacomb's latest 1.3.0 release fixes an interesting issue: Apparently on the PinePhone (Pro) when disabling `eg25-manager</code>, libinput generates a bunch of XF86WakeUp</code> press/release events, ultimately ending up with the key permanently pressed. Since Catacomb supports multi-key bindings, it wouldn't trigger bindings anymore, since it only looked at the ones with XF86WakeUp</code> active.https://github.com/catacombing/catacomb/releases/tag/v1.3.0#linuxmobile #catacomb #pinephone"</a></li>`
`UndeadLeech:` `"It seems like many things have improved in #servo since I've last checked it out. Performance isn't perfect, but it does still manage to reach 60-70 FPS while screen recording on a Fairphone 5 (~90 without).Plenty of work left to do before I can ship it as an alternative engine, but I think this time it might make it upstream rather than sitting in a branch for another year.#linuxmobile #catacomb"</a></li>`
`allpurposemat: "My Fairphone 5 running #postmarketOS re-gained audio support today, with bonus working mic as well!!Seems like the ALSA configs use a device identifier that only matches if you don't use U-Boot, as it sets a different name, and thus ALSA doesn't find it. Temp solved via sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/conf.d/qcm6490/{Fairphone\ 5.conf,fairphone-Fairphone5-.conf}</code>Many thanks to @bshah and @aelin for looking into it and spending time helping."</a></li>`
`erebion: Monthly XMPP Newsletter from the @xmpp Foundationhttps://xmpp.org/2026/03/the-xmpp-newsletter-february-2026/Things that happened in February (awesome things)#XMPP #Messenger #DIDay #didit #LinuxOnMobile</a></li>`
`gnulinux: "Alte Technik, neue Freude Oder wie es mir gelungen ist, einem alten Linux-Smartphone neues Leben einzuhauchen. #PinePhone #linuxmobile #catacomb #Alarm #Arch_Linux_ARM #Linux https://gnulinux.ch/alte-technik-neue-freude"</a></li>`
`system76: "“In the case of Colorado’s and California’s bills, effectiveness is lost. In the case of New York’s bill, liberty is lost.”Carl Richell, System76 Founder and CEO, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification.Read his full statement: https://s76.co/m-S8102A"</a></li>`
`modal: "If you missed yesterday's Reflection Developer Labs session but are curious how it went, you're in luck!The recording is available here now: https://bbb3.gnome.org/playback/presentation/2.3/cd84e4cf96be207333ac00baae24fd0630fa28ac-1772549208221"</a></li>`
`robn: "Including community managers and technical writers is a MASSIVE step in the right direction.It may be hard as a programmer to get stable funding for open source work, but its even harder for not-programmer roles, and those are every bit as important for long term sustainability of our work.Pass this on to the community managers and technical writers in your life :)re https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116165875657309832"</a></li>`
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: NLnet grant: Dual SIM for Mobile Linux</a></li> </ul> Events</h4> modal: "Spring is approaching, and so is the next #BoilingTheOcean 🌿When? Saturday, March 28Where? Cultivation Space (Berlin)It will be a single-day hacking event, focused on all the usual topics: mobile, local-first, platform, UX, and more. There will also be lightning talk slots in the evening.More details and link to signup pad to follow!#berlin #gnome #linuxmobile #postmarketOS #localfirst #gtk"</a> I won't be able to make it, sadly.</em></li> ev: "Gentle reminder: If you intend to attend the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 in May, please apply! See https://ev.phosh.mobi/pcm/pcm-2026/ for details.We're also happy about donations to reach our funding goal for the event.#pcm2026 #phosh #LinuxMobile"</a></li> LAS: "Our CfP is open, one of the things we've been focused on is gaming? Are you a #game dev? Always dreamed of writing a game on #Linux? Submit a talk around your experience around gaming in #Linux? Let us know what we need to address gaming on Linux. https://linuxappsummit.org/cfp"</a></li> katzenmann: Because @cccac is a bit far away from me but I still want to do some Linux Mobile hacking, and others may want to do the same, I started the Linux Mobile Hacking Evening in the @c3d2 in Dresden.The first one will be in 2 weeks on the 17th.https://c3d2.de/news/linux-phone-hacking-0326.html#linuxmobile #postmarketOS</a></li> </ul> More Software News</h3> Gnome Ecosystem</h4> This Week in GNOME: #239 Accessibility Contributions</a></li> Matthew Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs</a></li> Martín Abente Lahaye: [Call for Applicants] Flatseal at Igalia’s Coding Experience 2026</a></li> Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-03-06</a></li> Phoronix: GTK 4.22 Released With Improved SVG Support, Reduced Motion Option</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes</a></li> </ul> Phosh</h4> Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News February 2026</a></li> Phosh (gotosocial): Looking forward to work with #modemmanager upstream on improving dual SIM support in our #LinuxMobile stack: https://nlnet.nl...</a></li> phosh: This will also help #LinuxMobile. There are rumors that this might get integrated into #stevia 🎹 (as you might have heard at our last community get together): https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587 </a>. See also</a>.</em></li> phosh: "Tip: if your phone doesn't have a notification LED, it is broken or not yet supported by the kernel you can use the camera flash 📸 :Video on #peertube: https://peertube.debian.social/w/h6sSCuAZDfSQHuBJfaceCG Video on #youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6IbIR2jw6-4 #LinuxMobile #phosh #feedbackd"</a></li> opensourceopenmind: @joe9nf Yeah, but for nontechy folk who need a good OotB experience right now, even that's a great step up the #freedomladder, especially as the #phosh UI on it looks almost the same as on mainline projects using it. So when/if they decide to step up the ladder to a mainline project like #postmarketOS, #PureOS or #Mobian, the migration will be easier compared to migrating from iOS/Android because of same UI/DE, flatpaks, waydroid, etc. Personally, I'm using postmarketOS on a #Librem5 and almost everything important works, but I'm not sure I'd recommend to someone who is not already comfortable with #desktopLinux and a #FOSS-only ecosystem.</a></li> </ul> Plasma Ecosystem</h4> Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Polish and Stability</a></li> Carl Schwan et al.: This Month in KDE Apps</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 25.12.3</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6.2, Bugfix Release for March</a></li> KDE e.V. News: Rocky Linux becomes KDE's newest Patron</a></li> tsdgeos: KDE Gear 26.04 branches created</a></li> akselmo: What even are Breeze, QtQuick, QtWidget, Union..?</a></li> </ul> Sailfish OS</h4> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 5th March 2026 - MWC Barcelona 2026</a></li> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Greetings from MWC Barcelona 26</a></li> MarkDW: have just fired up my new sailfish os phone and.... it's pretty cool :)First impressions:#jolla #sailfishos #ungoogled https://devenirgris.com/2026/03/07/chapter-10-picking-up-the-ungoogled-thread-again-with-sailfish-os/</a></li> leanderlindahl: @wavesblog our hope lies with European phone OS #SailfishOS, #postMarketOS and their peers combined with legislation requiring digital IDs and banking to have defined APIs so that we can build our own ecosystem. Relying on foreign data harvesters with an opaque agenda won't cut it.https://sailfishos.org/#DigitalSovereignty</a></li> frankps: A fantastic Immich client has been released in its first version for SailfishOS today! https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/immich-a-native-immich-application-for-sailfish-os/28066/2#SailfishOS #Immich #Privacy #OpenSource #LinuxMobile #Photography</a></li> kokorins: Working on my Mobile Speeder app. The Sailfish OS version is available on Harbor and OpenRepos. Planning to release an Android version soon, but I need at least 12 reviewers. If you’re interested, please send me a direct message. #sailfishos #android #speedreader</a></li> </ul> Ubuntu Touch</h4> Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185 Call For Questions.</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Install isn't compatible with non-Debian systems</a></li> Tekchip: I've seen next to no talk around this thing. It looks good on paper. Ubuntu Touch officially supported. https://braxtech.net/brax3 Anybody get one from the early run? How is it? #android #privacy #ubports #ubuntutouch</a></li> ancientsounds: @retrimental @Lioh Yes and no. #ubports #ubuntutouch is not the same as desktop #ubuntu: it's an immutable OS and the apps are tailored for small screen devices. You can</em> run arbitrary Linux programs, but only in the Libertine container, which is a bit of a fiddle but does work especially in full-screen mode. Beaming to a full-size screen has some lag though; a wired connection is better but only some devices support that. It's great to experiment with but not yet full convergence, and I wouldn't ditch the desktop/laptop yet!</a></li> </ul> Apps</h4> Mathias Bonn: Mahjongg: Second Year in Review</a></li> pi_crew: "Took the work of @nielsdg on #Gnome mail client #Geary GTK4 port, essential for usage on #LinuxMobile, and created a rebased pull request 🚀 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/merge_requests/892"</a></li> a23: "Today Planify reached 5,000 stars on GitHub ⭐When I started this project, I simply wanted to build a beautiful and powerful task manager for Linux. Seeing thousands of people interested in it, using it, and contributing ideas is incredibly motivating.Open source is amazing because it shows what can happen when people from all over the world support and improve a project together.Thank you to everyone who uses Planify, reports issues, contributes ideas, and supports the project."</a></li> jmlich: "I’ve been working on a new feature for #Amazfish. A new pull request adds support for uploading workouts to @FitTrackee, a FOSS alternative to Strava. The integration is simple for now — just basic uploads, no advanced features yet.I’m looking forward to your feedback!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwylMDM8J5g"</a></li> Carl Schwan et al.: This Month in KDE Apps</a></li> </ul> Distributions</h4> Modal: The first Reflection Developer Labs session is tomorrow</em> 🌈 If you have a GTK app idea (or existing app) that would benefit from local-first sync, this is for you! Join us at 15:00 UTC here: https://meet.gnome.org/rooms/evd-kyl-x5a-m9i/joinSign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/4uGYejbVSxO8LUPQRQZW-w?both#ReflectionDeveloperLabs #gnome #gtk #p2panda #localfirst</a></li> </ul> Kernel</h4> phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add wiko-chuppito devictree</a></li> phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom: Add Milos LPI pinctrl</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A "Severe Performance Regression"</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way</a></li> </ul> Stack</h4> Phoronix: New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft's .NET MAUI</a></li> Phoronix: Wine 11.4 Released With More Improvements</a></li> Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension</a></li> Phoronix: Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes</a></li> Phoronix: Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows</a></li> </ul> Matrix</h4> Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-03-06</a></li> Matrix.org: Senior Developer Relationship Engineer</a></li> </ul> Thanks</h3> Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p> Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3> If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>



Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks
2026-03-01T22:30:13+00:00
This past week: Modal Collective publishes vision for "Sovereign Mobile Stack", postmarketOS February 2026 update introduces generic kernel packages (and other things), Phosh shows off Chinese Pinyin and Japanese Anthy input methods becoming part of the Stevia keyboard, Phosh.mobi e.V. celebrates first anniversary, 10000 Jolla Phones sold, and Catacomb UI updates. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

Modal Collective: Towards a Sovereign Mobile Stack</a>. Great!</em></li>
schmiddionmobile: Happy Birthday, Pipeline!</a></li>
Liliputing: Fedora Pocketblue Remix is an atomic Linux distro for mobile devices (phones and tablets)</a></li>
postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E510: Sailfish OS – How to use the GUI & LAST CHANCE  for pre-order the J2!</a></li>
Actualia tech: "Fedora on smartphones, the Pocketblue community project!"</a></li>
CodeInc: Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 & OTA-12 Updates — What’s New and Why You Should Upgrade</a></li>
Florian´s Chaos Club: "Finally, an update on the Jolla Phone 2 - the European Apple and Android killer?"</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

felicitas.pojtinger.com: "People need banking and payment apps to work on Linux mobile for it to work. Obviously to only real "fix" for this is a regulatory one that declares SafetyNet a monopolistic control mechanism, which it is."</a></li>
ev: "Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳.Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and the #LinuxMobile ecosystem, working towards user friendly #DigitalFreedom and #DigitalIndependence (nowadays often called #DigitalSovereignity) for the devices we carry in our pockets very day 📱.Our next booth will be at #CLT2026 in Chemnitz, meet us there."</a></li>
furilabs: "Big news — the Convergence Hub (FLH1) is on its way to us for final testing and QA!Once we give it the green light, shipping begins immediately from our warehouse. We've been looking forward to this one - true convergence for your FLX1 and FLX1S.Stay tuned for the final approval update.Get yours: https://furilabs.com/shop/FLH1/#FuriLabs #FuriOS #LinuxPhone #Convergence #FLH1 #PrivacyFirst"</a></li>
edri: "1/ Some of our German-speaking readers will know this… Today, like every first Sunday of the month, we celebrate Digital Independence Day! 🎉 EDRi supports this monthly celebration in the liberation of digital lives from #BigTech. We look forward to sharing practical tips & support people and communities who build apps & tools that respect people, #democracy, and the planet.Read more about #DiDay from EDRi member @CCC ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/didit-edri-members-spark-movement-for-alternatives-to-big-tech/"</a></li>
jmlich: "Recently, I decided to spend the money you donated to buy a Bangle.js ⌚️.Since then, I’ve improved feature support in #Amazfish — it now synchronizes steps, activities, and alarms.I have to say that #BangleJS is an awesome, hackable smartwatch. It’s something I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to write some code and learn something new."</a></li>
pavel: "Autofocus with #libcamera is fun. You are attempting to tune AF to do something, and while doing that you realize that a) AE does not really work, and b) there's memory leak of GPU memory or something, so if you keep playing with focus for too long, system is hosed in a way application restart does not cure. #librem5 "</a></li>
r/MobileLinux: Latest stable Linux kernel + Arch Linux + KDE</a></li>
r/MobileLinux: Fedora and Arch on POCO F3</a></li>
backtoanalog: This is my review of the FLX1 phone from @FuriLabs. I've been using this phone for about 3 years as a daily driver. I am very happy with it! My banking app works, which is great, Android apps work very well in general. Plenty of settings and updates are monthly. There are glitches: flickering of the screen that I can't stop unless I remove the battery, that happens when I press power button twice; and artifacts being left back when uninstalling Android apps.#FLX1 #FuriLabs #LinuxMobile</a></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #238 Navigating Months</a></li>
Matthias Clasen: An update on SVG in GTK</a></li>
pojntfx: #puregotk has moved to #Codeberg! I've just opened the first PR to it: https://codeberg.org/puregotk/puregotk/pulls/42Gosh it is nice to have a usable signal/noise ratio on a forge again ...</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News February 2026</a></li>
phosh: We just landed initial support for Chinese (via #pinyin) and Japanese (via #anthy / romaji) in #Phosh's on screen keyboard #stevia using #uim 🥳As our current maintainers don't speak / write these languages we appreciate testing feedback and people joining development so we can improve things further in this important area.#LinuxMobile</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): Didn't make it to #FOSDEM? @devrtz@fosstodon.org 's talk about #Phosh's recent developments is available online: https://vide...</a></li>
ev: "Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳.Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and the #LinuxMobile ecosystem, working towards user friendly #DigitalFreedom and #DigitalIndependence (nowadays often called #DigitalSovereignity) for the devices we carry in our pockets very day 📱.Our next booth will be at #CLT2026 in Chemnitz, meet us there."</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6.1, Bugfix Release for February</a></li>
Volker Krause: OSM Hack Weekend February 2026</a></li>
Akselmo: Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union</a></li>
Qt blog: New in Qt 6.11: QRangeModel updates and QRangeModelAdapter</a></li>
tintotint: KDE Connect of the Future</a></li>
#plasmamobile: I've never appreciated web apps more than when I have been tinkering with #plasmamobile on my OnePlus 6T, since most linux apps assume they are running on a desktop.</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps Rounded Style UI Enhancement For QtWidgets-Based Apps</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Calling for Spain and JollaES - quick meetup in Barcelona?</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 12th March 2026</a></li>
jolla: "10,000 pre-orders. Goal reached. We set a goal together. You made it happen.What started as a community wish is now a production reality. The Jolla Phone is happening, shaped by the people who will use it.Thank you. This is what community-driven development looks like. ❤️Next stop: MWC Barcelona. Come find us.#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #European #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered"</a></li>
frankps: Whisperfish for SailfishOS (native signal client) has been updated and one of the developers gives us a glimpse what might come in the next update - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/whisperfish-the-unofficial-sailfishos-signal-client/3337/1595?u=frankpsA big thank You to @rubdos! #Whisperfish #SailfishOS</a></li>
frankps: The finale batch of Jolla C2 devices has landed in Tampere and is ready to be shipped to customers: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/update-on-jolla-c2-q4-25-production-batch/25420/35?u=frankpsIf you want a #SailfishOS phone there is only a few preorders left for the upcoming community phone, J2: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder#LinuxMobile @jolla</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Is this the new normal? Or was I put into some bucket of "special" users? #youtubealternatives #youtube I can't watch videos on YouTube. Tried four different ones. (I hardly ever visit YouTube unless I have to, but there were some videos about #SailfishOS I wanted to check out after several people mentioned that) #peertube</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Two days left to pre-order one of the remaining #Jolla J2 phones. 574 units left.😐#SailfishOS</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Three days to go, only 620 pre-orders left until we reach the 10,000 order mark. That would send a strong signal for independent software on phones. Get moving and place your orders!#sailfishos #jolla #did #dut #digitalindipendenceday</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports Forums OS: Microphone privacy concern</a></li>
UBports Forums OS: unstable keyboard</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Love that my Google Pixel 3a is still alive and running #UbuntuTouch long after Google gave up on it.</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Outdoor-Smartphone Volla Phone Plinius https://linuxnews.de/outdoor-smartphone-volla-phone-plinius/ #volla #smartphone #vollaos #ubuntutouch #linuxnews</a></li>
</ul>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a>

postmarketOS: We have updated our AI policy to explicitly forbid generative AI. This and more in our latest monthly blog post "postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels" https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/#linuxmobile #postmarketos</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: msm-modem package temporarily removed</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: linux-postmarketos-qcom-laptop: backport DMA range fix for >32GB snapdragon x devices</a></li>
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: FuriLabs FuriPhone FLX1 (furilabs-krypton)</a></li>
foss2go.com: Fedora Pocketblue: Immutable Fedora for Mobile Devices</a></li>
</ul>
Other UIs</h4>

UndeadLeech: Just released a new version of Catacomb & Epitaph. Catacomb's main changes are the automatic calculation of a device's scale and the ability to define deadzones for devices with rounded corners and camera cutouts. Epitaph now allows full configuration of its modules based on device orientation, which should also help with devices that have cutouts. #linuxmobile #catacomb</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Recall</a></li>
UndeadLeech: Groundbreaking changes in the latest release of Aevum (Catacomb's alarm app): There's now a stopwatch. #linuxmobile #catacomb</a></li>
UndeadLeech: "Just added compass support to Charon, which was surprisingly easy thanks to iio-sensor-proxy. #linuxmobile #catacomb"</a></li>
pastelsolitude: Oh, yeah, btw the bnuuy mobile Linux game source code is now on Codeberg  🎉.I have no idea what I'm doing.Also binaries exceed Codeberg's size limit so I will most likely have to find a different place for hosting releases. (I'm open for recommendations)https://codeberg.org/pastelsolitude/mobilelinuxgametest#mobilelinux #linux #godot #codeberg</a></li>
hugoposnic: Coulr is now working well on #linuxmobile (before latest version,  it had a fixed non-resizable window). Post written with Tuba in #postmarketos on my all new OP6t (and first linux phone) 😀️https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.huluti.Coulr</a></li>
dillo: "Just fixed a big blocker for FLTK >= 1.4.Blurry fonts were caused by a half pixel misalignment bug in FLTK which broke the font hinting leading to poor readability. Should be fixed in next FLTK 1.4.5 release.I was not expecting to having to follow this whole font rendering pipeline rabbit hole. I'm surprised how little information there is on the Web about this topic, maybe I write more details later."</a></li>
hugoposnic: Any idea how an app can be marked as "Desktop only" and be in the "Mobile" section of bazaar? Colorway is not the only app impacted#mobilelinux #flathub</a></li>
Oleksii: Today is my first time when I've managed easily connect to the Wifi via qr code.https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.qrca is a great app.#linuxmobile</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] media: qcom: camss: csiphy-3ph: Use odd bits for configuring C-PHY lanes</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v2 5/6] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6115: Add missing MDSS core reset</a></li>
cnxsoft: "Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 H.264 and H.265 video decoders gain mainline Linux supportVDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders are found in Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 SoCs and variants like the RK3588S and RK3576J. So far, we had to rely on the Rockchip BSP to support hardware video decoding, but Collabora has just announced upstream/mainline Linux support for H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) video decoding for RK3588 and RK3576 SoCs. Highlights of H.265/H.264 video decoder impl…https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/27/rockchip-rk3588-rk3576-h-264-and-h-265-video-decoders-mainline-linux/"</a></li>
</ul>
Non-Linux</h4>

genode: "Today, we released #Genode 26.02, which most prominently replaces XML with the custom-designed HID configuration format. Also, we completed the first half of our project's migration from GitHub to Codeberg, updated DDE-Linux-based protocol stacks to version kernel 6.18, and further cultivated the genode-world repository as designated place for ported third-party software. Further, we added new input-processing capabilities and continued our improvements of the Goa SDK.https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/26.02"</a></li>
</ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: Mesa Developers Trying To Reach A Consensus On AI Policy</a></li>
Phoronix: NXP Posts New Linux Accelerator Driver For Their Neutron NPU</a></li>
Phoronix: Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support</a></li>
Phoronix: GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support</a></li>
Phoronix: Servo Browser Engine Starts 2026 With Many Notable Improvements</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-27</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2026): Touch Your Wrist
2026-02-22T19:59:02+00:00
This past week: AsteroidOS 2.0 release blog post released, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 released, Mecha Comet surpasses $1 million on Kickstarter, Jolla Phone 2026 reaches 9000+ pre-orders, and more! Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

yuka.dev: Reviving a Nexus 9 with mainline Linux</a></li>
AsteroidOS: AsteroidOS 2.0 Released</a>

Neil Brown: Updating my TicWatch to AsteroidOS 2.0</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
Linuxiac: Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
xda-developers: You can now download a Fedora Atomic OS for your Android device</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E509: Jolla Phone – Specs, TOH & Timeline Update</a></li>
Tomás: One decade with a Linux phone - Jolla Sailfish</a></li>
Manuel Eberle: Sony Xperia 10 III VS Jolla C2 - Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73</a></li>
Manuel Eberle: Xperia 10 iii vs Jolla C2 vs Fairphone 4 (Port)-- Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73</a></li>
moWerk: AsteroidOS 2.0 - New features tour</a></li>
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 184</a>. With background music.</em></li>
Mecha: Ask me anything about the Mecha Comet - 20 February</a></li>
DistroTester: Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices</a></li>
Tobias Bernard, Andreas Dzialocha: Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop with Modal, Reflection and p2panda</a></li>
Martijn Braam: FOSS Pi-based Broadcast camera (pt. 2)</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

eibriel: Linux Handheld reached 1 million in backing on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer/description#Linux #LinuxHandheld #MechaComet #LinuxMobile #OpenHardware</a>. Impressive!</em></li>
UndeadLeech: Finally managed to get the modem working on my Fairphone 5. It's officially a phone now. #linuxmobile #fairphone #alarm #catacomb</a>. If you're wondering "but didn't that work anyway?" - yes, it did, but not on Arch Linux ARM.</em></li>
ppisa: @Pavel Machek has rebased his #libcamera AutoFocus experimental branch above mainline v0.7.0 tag during @okias organized 6th #MobileLinux Hackday yesterday (thanks to #SUSE for hosting), and I have built it on my #oneplus6 #Qualcomm #sdm845 phone running my build of 6.19.0-rc4-next-20260106-sdm845-gdc7b19cffd9e kernel and #mobian. Then I have tested it with Pavel’s mcam and, probably the first time ever, with Gnome/Phosh snapshot application with a complete pipewire-libcamera stack. The simple SW AF prototype has been enabled by the addition of - Af: line into /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/simple/uncalibrated.yam. …</a></li>
julianwi: make WhatsApp voice calls functional by implementing AudioRecord class</a> - WhatsApp calls should now be possible through Android Translation Layer. Should be possible to test this soon through the ATL Flatpak repo</a></li>
</ul>
Events</h4>

modal: "The #ReflectionDeveloperLabs sessions are starting soon! It's a series of online events for GTK app developers to learn more about local-first, and give us feedback on what they need to add local-first sync to their apps 🪴🔃First session: March 3, 15:00 CET, onlineWe'll give an introduction to the stack and present the WIP new p2panda node/client APIs and GObject bindings to get early feedback.You can sign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/4uGYejbVSxO8LUPQRQZW-w#localfirst #p2panda #gnome #gtk"</a></li>
LAS: "We’re excited to announce that Linux App Summit 2026 will take place May 16–17 in Berlin, Germany. Join developers, designers, and open source contributors for two days focused on Linux apps.https://linuxappsummit.org/local/#Linux #opensource #Apps #KDE #GNOME #LinuxAppSummit #LAS2026"</a></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #237 Article Rendering</a></li>
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-02-19</a></li>
Jonathan Blandford: Crosswords 0.3.17: Circle Bound</a></li>
Adrian Vovk: GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026</a>. x86 flatpaks on ARM with FEX is particularly interesting!</em></li>
Federico Mena-Quintero: Librsvg got its first AI slop pull request</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh Releases: Phosh 0.53.0</a></li>
foss2go.com: Phosh 0.53.0: improved auto-brightness and app thumbnails</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!</a></li>
KDE Announcements: Plasma 6.6</a></li>
KDE e.V. News: KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles</a></li>
shibe-bit: Guide: Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps More Improvements While Plasma 6.6.1 Fixes Begin Accumulating</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, February 19th 2026 - Hackday</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Jolla Phone update - lights on, technical bits and the schedule</a></li>
#sailfishOS: 9,000 pre-orders. Time to celebrate. 🎉This is not just a number. It is 9,000 people who chose privacy, independence, and a different kind of phone. People who decided that their data is theirs. People who believe something better is possible.Secure your Jolla Phone at the special batch price before February ends. If you have been considering it, this is the moment.Let's make it together. ❤️https://jolla.com/phone#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #European #PrivacyFirst #Linux #CommunityPowered</a></li>
#sailfishOS: W00t, The #Jolla Phone will actually ship with The Other Half!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-lights-on-technical-bits-and-the-schedule/27821#TheOtherHalf #SailfishOS #LinuxOnMobile</a></li>
#sailfishOS: @Antti98 Thanks. So there are some hacky proof of concept eSim solutions, and hope for official support one day.I'd seen the frequency list before (was probably in a press release), would need to cross check with Japan info.The Jello website says #SailfishOS is "now enhanced for AI-driven applications" - hopefully minor and not distracting!</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports News: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 release</a>

Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 Fixes Boot Issues for Sony Xperia X, Improves VoLTE Support - 9to5Linux</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
UBports Forums OS: Call for testing: calendar-app</a></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 184 call for questions</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: MR !237 (Adjust logic for detecting tablet sizing) makes keyboard look too big for Volla Phone Quintus</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Implement .qmltypes</code> for Qt 6 (Follow-up from "Build QML modules with qt_add_qml_module")</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: build test failures with gdk-pixbuf + glycin</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: [ubports/focal] Jenkinsfile: use arch-specific nodes for building images</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: [ubports/24.04-1.x] Jenkinsfile: use arch-specific nodes for building images</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Redesign workpspace implementation</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Implement separate default height for tall phones</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: src/LomiriToolkit: Fix ListItem's touch event handling</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Split off lomiri-keyboard-qml from lomiri-keyboard</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: plugins/WindowManager: Match Xwayland surfaces to their placeholders</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Increase timeout values to fix flaky tests</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: ignore Only/NotShowIn in desktop files</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Update ru plugin</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Personal/lduboeuf/update upstream</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: nmofono/wwan: enable mobile data with NetworkManager</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: src: platforms: Fix synchronization bug with Mir2 crashing Mir (run on</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: #Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 Roll Out With VoLTE and Xperia X Fixes https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-2-and-20-04-ota-12-released/#UbuntuTouch</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Day two on the #UBports #UbuntuTouch phone. The pro is that I spend less time scrolling, the con is that I spent more time doing trivial stuff. So that's in balance. My first impression: not ready for prime time yet. I can use it but it takes a lot of effort. All the basic stuff a phone should do can be done but all the things a regular smartphone can do, not so much.#Linux #SmartPhone</a></li>
</ul>
Distributions</h4>

Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: Draft: Remove phosh-session from plasma-mobile images, fix #56</a></li>
Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: Now with recommends enabled, plasma-mobile images include Phosh as well</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: msm-modem package temporarily removed</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Happy to announce that @ayakael is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!He is getting postmarketOS comfortable on eink and cyberdeck devices, improving rockchip support, maintaining Alpine Linux packages and learning how to mainline linux patches. Regarding eink devices, he made a bunch of improvements to the e-ink powered pine64-pinenote and moved it from the testing category to community.📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/team/#antoine-martin-ayakael</a></li>
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Nexphone (nex-nexphone)</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

kolunmi: Made a new screenshot carousel widget from scratch for Bazaar! I wanted the act of scrolling screenshots to be as fluid and responsive as possible. This was very fun to work on.Bazaar: https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaarSupport Me: https://ko-fi.com/kolunmi</a></li>
newbyte: "#Megapixels 2.1.0 was just merged into #postmarketOS Edge, including a fix to make it work out-of-the-box again on the original #PinePhone! Performance is not as good as it used as it relies on software rendering but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main alternative Snapshot—which unfortunately runs at what seems to be less than 1 FPS on it."</a></li>
chfkch: "Ok, so i didn't have much time the past year to work on BitRitter, but recently at least i got the initial code working for translations.I will try to set it up in the next weeks, so we can use the Weblate instance from @Codeberg .Another thing i was working on in the rare free time was editing entries and saving them to the vault. I got bitten by framework specific stuff, so that will not be solved soon.#BitRitter #RustLang #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Weblate #CodeBerg"</a></li>
cassidy: I finally did a little UI rewrite for Dippi 👀#GNOME #Adwaita #libadwaita #Linux #LinuxMobile #OpenSource</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add wiko-chuppito devictree</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/5] Battery temperature ADC plumbing on Qualcomm platforms</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6125: Add PRNG node</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Bitmask logic fix and firmware-name support for AW88261 amplifier driver</a></li>
Phoronix: AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0</a></li>
Phoronix: eCryptfs Sees Renewed Patch Activity With Linux 7.0</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions</a></li>
Phoronix: USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0</a></li>
Phoronix: Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics</a></li>
</ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-20</a></li>
Matrix.org: Analysis of reported issues in vodozemac</a>
amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/nj-regulation-e-bikes/)</li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion
2026-02-15T22:36:07+00:00
This past week: Phosh 0.53.0 released, postmarketOS publishes FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap, feedbackd moved to freedesktop.org infrastructure, Navit 0.5.7 offline navigation app released after 5 years, Linux 7.0 adds Qualcomm Milos (used in Fairphone 6) and Jolla Phone 2026 surpasses 8,700 pre-orders, and more. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

postmarketOS Blog: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
Phosh.mobi e.V.: Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026</a></li>
Martijn Braam: Building a FOSS live streaming camera</a></li>
CNX Software: Linux 6.19 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E508: SFOS – AAS Installer Patcher</a></li>
NDK: Experience Ubuntu Touch on Google Pixel 3a</a></li>
amarullz: "Front Assembly, Display Glue - piBrick PocketCM5"</a>. Interesting project!</em></li>
Elly: Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite booting mainline Linux</a></li>
Smokin' Silicon: This $120 Phone DOESN'T run Android or iOS... 🤔</a>. Remastered variant of last weeks PinePhone Braveheart video.</em></li>
Techspheres: Setting up Sailfish OS in Sony XA 2 - Jolla sailfish OS - Awesome experience</a></li>
Phosh.mobi: Launch splash in Phosh's overview</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

DrewNaylor: "Finally started using the milestones for Retiled since I feel like it's getting to the point where I can plan out changes better than just having a to-do list issue. Need to start closing and fixing older issues, too.#Retiled"</a></li>
phosh: #feedbackd (together with the device themes and #rust bindings) moved to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/feedbackd/ . Many thanks to the fdo maintainers for having us!#phosh #LinuxMobile</a></li>
Purism community: Kernel 6.12 available for testing</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Which phone and OS should I pick?</a></li>
</ul>
Hardware (enablement)</h4>

aelin: "After days debugging the stupidest mistake ever, we finally have penguins on sm7450 (fillmore) :akko_smile2:"</a></li>
dubstar_04: Another interesting opensource phone project: https://github.com/V3lectronics/SPIRIT Its very cool to see these projects progress.  #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile</a></li>
dubstar_04: This is a super ambitious project to create open phone hardware: https://github.com/DansDesigns/OSM-Phone I would love to see this a success and support @mobian and @postmarketOS#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile</a></li>
</ul>
Events</h4>

mobilni_linux_cs_sk: "#6 #MobileLinux Hackday je zde!v pátek 20. 2. 2026 od 10:00 do večera vSUSE Linux, s.r.o.Křižíkova 148/34Praha 8 - KarlínDoprava:- tram/metro KřižíkovaTémata:- od jádra (posílání patchů, b4, atd.)- až po user-space (balíčkování, Flatpak, drobné opravy aplikací aby pěkně běželi na telefonech)- Mobian- pohnout s OnePlus 6 / 6T, Xiaomi Poco F1 #sdm845- experimentování s #FairPhone 5Prosím potvrďte účast i když dorazíte později nebo budete muset odejít brzy.Budem se těšit!Telefon: +420608263376 (také Signal)"</a></li>
gnome: "#GUADEC2026 CfP is open! 🎉🎉We are seeking talks on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:- Application development- Privacy and security- Community and team building- Design of user and developer experience- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop- Newcomers initiatives- Project planning and governanceWe will be accepting both remote and in-person presentation submissions.#GNOME #GUADEC"</a></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #236 New Library</a></li>
Asman Malika: Career Opportunities: What This Internship Is Teaching Me About the Future</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME OS To Use systemd-confext, RustConn Provides Modern GTK4 Connection Manager</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh releases: Phosh 0.53.0</a></li>
Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026</a></li>
phosh: "phosh 0.53.0 is out 🚀📱:There's plenty of 🐛 fixes, improvements and refinements of existing features this time.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.53.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile"</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.23.0</a></li>
Planet KDE: QCoro 0.13.0 Release Announcement</a></li>
Planet KDE: While you support others, who supports you?</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6 Sees Last Minute Fixes, Plasma 6.7 Aims For Painless Samba Shares</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 26th February 2026</a></li>
#sailfishOS: 8700. Just two weeks left to 10k. ...possibly less.⌚ #SailfishOS #Jolla</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Released v0.2 of my Twinkle Reader for #SailfishOS! Speed reading + built-in summarization.Now on OpenRepos: https://openrepos.net/content/kokorins/twinkle-reader#OpenRepos #Jolla #LinuxMobile</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 24.04-1.2</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: examples/README.md: Markdownify file, fix some typos and capitalizations and...</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Port: buteo-syncfw-qml to Qt6</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Port to CMake and Qt 6</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: It seems that #WayDroid 1.6.0+ forwards notifications to #Linux desktops. That's great and I'll test it: is it possible to exploit this not only for desktop os, but also for #UbuntuTouch? https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/waydroid-1-6-0-forward-notifications-to-desktop/</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Playing with #UbuntuTouch: while having a native #Linux terminal is great, I noticed several relevant lacks. Apart many users with #GPS issues, a native mail client is missing: #Dekko2, the “most suggested” one, appears to be discontinued, while both it and the main OS (!!) do not support #OAuth2. So the best option is to stick with #webapps, or to use #Waydroid, an internal #Android emulator, with limits (such as the impossibility to share #notifications with the main os). What am I missing?</a></li>
</ul>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS Blog: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Boot failures on Android bootimg and EFI-only devices</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: linux-postmarketos-qcom-sc7280: upgrade to 6.19.0</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

adampigg: Added genre support so Supersonik, my @kde Kirigami #mobilelinux #subsonic client #sailfishos https://github.com/piggz/supersonik/</a></li>
newbyte: Opened a merge request to get the Megapixels camera app working again via software rendering on devices that don't support the graphics APIs GTK 4 requires nowadays like the original PinePhone and Exynos 4xxx devices. Performance isn't amazing but it's definitely better than I would've expected. https://gitlab.com/megapixels-org/Megapixels/-/merge_requests/62</a></li>
jkoan: After about 5 years we finally did it, the next version of #navit is released now! https://github.com/navit-gps/navit/releases/tag/v0.5.7 It brings loads of bug fixes and also some new features :)For everyone reading who doesn't know what Navit is, it's a fully offline #openstreetmap based #navigation software for many different systems. With #geoclue it also works well on #mobilelinux. But we also have an app for #android. The docs can be found here: https://navit.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.7/ </a></li>
Mat: "I finally got Linux support for the #Rockwork #Pebble client ready for merge, and now I find out #AlpineLinux is (justifiably) phasing out Qt5 packaging, so I can't actually use it. 🫠…"</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

CNX Software: Linux 6.19 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: qcom: milos-fairphone-fp6: Add Hall Effect sensor</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: milos: Sort pinctrl subnodes by pins</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Add CAMSS node</a></li>
kernellogger: "Some highlights from the SoC devicetree updates (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/6589b3d76db2d6adbf8f2084c303fb24252a0dc6) and SoC driver updates (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/bdbddf72a2ab1cfea699959795d70df3931eefe7) merged for #Linux 7.0 and submitted by @arnd :""[…] handful of new SoCs this time[…]* SpacemiT Key Stone K3 is an 8-core risc-v chip […]:* The Realtek Kent family of SoCs contains three chip models […]* The Qualcomm Milos family includes the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 (SM7635) mobile phone SoC […] used in the #Fairphone Gen 6* Qualcomm Kaanapali is a new SoC […]* NXP i.MX8QP and i.MX952 are both feature reduced versions of we already support […][…] a number of to firmware drivers, in particular the TEE subsystem[…]* sysfs support for tee firmware informationMost of the other changes are for random drivers/soc code. Among a number of cleanups and newly added hardware support, including:* Mediatek MT8196 DVFS power management and mailbox support […]""#LinuxKernel #Kernel"</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Wires Up Arm's 64-byte Single-Copy Atomic Instructions LS64/LS64V</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Lands 8D-8D-8D Octal DTR Support In SPI NAND For Better Performance</a></li>
Phoronix: Sheaves Ready To Play A Bigger Role In Linux 7.0</a></li>
</ul>
Stack</h4>

LWN: The future for Tyr</a></li>
Phoronix: Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes</a></li>
Phoronix: X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-13</a></li>
Matrix.org: Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (06/2026): Fairbruary Mainline Calling
2026-02-08T23:33:27+00:00
This past week: Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73 Tampella early access released (approaching Sailfish OS 5.1 branch with BeaconDB for faster location fixes planned for March), Jolla C2 out of stock, Nemo Mobile reaches major milestone booting Lipstick on openSUSE, postmarketOS adds Bhushan Shah as Trusted Contributor and shows progress on Fairphone 5 call audio, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 call for testing. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

LibreNews: I'm A Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux.</a></li>
FuriLabs: FOSDEM 2026 Recap</a></li>
Neil Brown: Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM</a>. Yes, FOSDEM can be overwhelming.</em></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E507: Sailfish OS – Naval Battle Torpedo & the new EA update + AAS Bluetooth</a></li>
UBports: Ubuntu Tuch Q&A 183</a>. Good one!</em></li>
Anino Ni Kugi: I made my huge phone usable with one hand | Fairphone 4 Ubuntu Touch</a></li>
orailnoor: "I Installed Native Linux on my Phone — KDE Plasma Mobile (Android Apps, Docker, VS Code)"</a></li>
AD Tech: The Future of Open Source Smartphones 2026: Ubuntu Touch vs /e/OS vs postmarketOS Battle</a>. Slop warning</a> - sorry for letting this slip (… or slop?) through!</em></li>
Smokin' Silicon: I bought a Phone that DOESN'T run Android or iOS... 🤔</a>. PinePhone Braveheart in 2026? What?</em></li>
Jozef Mlich: Start of nemomobile lipstick on open suse</a></li>
Jozef Mlich: Run nemo in virtual machine</a></li>
DHOCNET Workbench: Failed to Get Shell Login | Messy Setup Script Implementation on PostmarketOS v25.12</a></li>
</ul>
FOSDEM 2026</h4>

FOSDEM 2026 - NewPipe - Porting an Android app to Sailfish OS</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Phosh: What's new and where are we going?</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop with Modal, Reflection and p2panda</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - libcamera software ISP status update</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - No Line Like Mainline: Update On The Fully Mainline Software Stack For Rockchip SoCs</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Add Support for New Boards to Mainline Linux, U-Boot and Yocto</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Wayland input method wrap up</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

stsdc: It was fun porting motor driver to support latest #sm7150 kernel for Xiaomi Mi 9T#Phosh #postmarketos</a>. So cool!</em></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker. But now, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working!Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you!#fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketOS</a></li>
cas: "Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation. We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.…"</a></li>
fizzo: @as400 @khalid @postmarketOS Pixel 3a has reliable phone calls on pmOS. I'm using it as daily driver with my main SIM on it. I carry a second commercial phone for the functionality that is not yet supported.</a></li>
pabloyoyoista: "Even though things still need a lot of work, we keep making progress on the hardware-CI (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/21/hw-ci-mvp/) for #postmarketOS During #FOSDEM I managed to reproduce @mupuf setup, and connect @cas original OP6 for testing! And today @fizzo got a OP6T connected too: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/jobs/1507082 !Exciting times ahead :D"</a></li>
r/MobileLinux: Plasma Mobile 6 VPN quick setting</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Wait - when did Ubuntu Touch get VoLTE support???</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: I'm now using my Pebble with my Linux phone</a></li>
</ul>
Events</h4>

modal: "#BoilingTheOcean 9 is next weekend (Feb 13-15)! This time our main topic is identity in peer-to-peer systems. How can we prevent impersonation? What about large groups? What are defenses against physical attacks?On Friday night we'll have a talk and discussion on these questions at @offline. Over the weekend we're at Cultivation Space to work through some of these questions (and hack on our other usual topics like mobile, GNOME UX, and more!)Sign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/G2dIYp3-Tl2bVC7Ii1HaCA"</a>. I won't be able to make it, but don't let that discourage you!</em></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #235 Integrating Fonts</a></li>
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-02-06</a></li>
Matthias Clasen: GTK hackfest, 2026 edition</a></li>
Lucas Baudin: Being a Mentor for Outreachy</a></li>
Christian Hergert: Mid-life transitions</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME's Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default</a></li>
Phoronix: VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing</a></li>
Phoronix: GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh (gotosocial): Nice, hopefully some of these improvements make it back into calls/chatty/contacts https://fosstodon.org/@alaraajavamma/1159...</a></li>
#phosh: So turns out the #gpi dmae driver/component works as intended but there will be timeouts if the I2C device doesn't respond.I fixed the regulator configurations around my touchscreen and now it gets detected and even works in #phosh </a></li>
#phosh: If you're at #FOSDEM you have a couple of hours left to grab some stickers, play with phones, chat with us or grab one of two very exclusive #Phosh T-Shirts (sizes M & L)!#Phosh #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #ShotOnLibrem5</a></li>
#phosh: Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phosh-GTK4-Progress #Phosh #Linux #Fosdem</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: beefed-up Window List widget</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 25.12.2</a></li>
Volker Krause: FOSDEM 2026</a></li>
jbb: Generating GTFS Feeds</a></li>
anditosan: FOSDEM 2026</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, February 5th 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 debrief</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: [Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.73 - Early Access - Announcements</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Jolla C2 out-of-stock - Announcements</a></li>
frankps: Yet another Sailfish Community Newsletter has just been released.Most exciting for me is that @jolla is very close to publish a Sailfish OS 5.0 update release, and that they approaching branching of the Sailfish OS 5.1. The 5.1 update is planned to be released somewhere around March. It will contain support for BeaconDB, which should help Location services to get a fix faster. Not much else is announced about this release yet...https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-february-5th-2026-fosdem-2026-debrief/27554#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity</a></li>
adampigg: Some pics from the #fosdem @jolla #sailfishos stand and meetup. Visible a @pine64 PPP and keyboard, a @volla tablet, and the J2 models</a></li>
vattuvarg: Jut as I thought the pace of the pre-orders has picked up. 21 days left to get your mittens on a #SailfishOS phone by #jolla.   At 8400 already and that means the opportunities are running out. ...slightly quicker day by day, it seems. At 10K pre-orders two things will happen: 1️⃣ A lucky person gets the very last enthusiast-priced J2 phone. 2️⃣ All J2 phones get pogo-pin-connectors (TOH) for further experiments. 🔘</a></li>
aegg: Yet another reason why I love my #SailfishOS phone.I forgot my phone this morning, ohh well I can survive a day without.Except for the fact I need SMS 2fa to log into all work services.So.. it's a linux phone I have ssh access to it!I manage to vpn home, ssh into my phone and extract all sms messages.All of this took me 2-3 minutes.#linux #linuxphones</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

Ubuntu Touch Forums: Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2</a></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums: Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-12</a></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 183 call for questions</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Dismissing Drawer by clicking outside while a fullscreen app is in the foreground, brings up the app behind</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Caller ID is wrong</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: [24.04.2.x]: Some sensors are no longer working</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 20.04 OTA-12</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 24.04-1.2</a></li>
</ul>
Nemo Mobile</h4>

Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: Nemomobile is moving towards openSUSE! 🚀 We have a working QCOW image that boots into Lipstick and launches Glacier apps. It's basically just a "Hello World" for now — telephony and messaging won’t work yet, but it’s already fun as a music player.I believe it’s ready again as a development platform and will move forward quickly!Check it out yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VVKxKiP6WM Kudos to Michał Szczepaniak and Sergey Chupligin 🙌</a></li>
</ul>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS (Mastodon): We are excited to announce that @bshah is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!He has recently returned to KDE Plasma Mobile upstream development as well, which he has been doing for several years beforehand. Furthermore he is helping with improving certain mainline devices, such as the Fairphone 5 where he recently collaborated with @z3ntu to get call audio from the speaker working for the first time!📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/team/#bhushan-shah-bshah📽️  FP5 live-action video:https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS/116007536246724076#plasmamobile #linuxmobile #postmarketos</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): For hackathon movie night, we followed the theme of movies with UI names in them again. Previously: "For the Plasma" (2014) and "The Gnome-Mobile" (1967).This time:"COSMIC Journey" (1936 !!!)Reviews coming in below!</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker. But now, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working!Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you!#fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketOS</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): #postmarketOS hackathon 2026 is off to a flying start.</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): We had a great FOSDEM yet again, thanks everybody for stopping by! It was fun hearing appreciation of our project by existing users, but also to explain our project to people that have never heard of us.We can't wait to be back next year!Our hackathon is starting now and we'll report about what happened there later this week.</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Day 2 of #FOSDEM2026 and we're back ready to show our project! If you still want a t-shirt come by quick as they're running out fast!</a></li>
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Radxa Dragon Q6A (radxa-dragon-q6a)</a></li>
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Gigaset GS4 (gigaset-gs4)</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Lotti</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Oboete</a></li>
Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Any Kiwix client?</a></li>
Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Too Good To Go: API client (Python)</a></li>
bjawebos: "🎉 Filmbook 0.2.1 is here! 🎞️I’m excited to share the latest update of Filmbook, your open-source app for tracking analog film usage.…"</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

Phoronix: KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes</a></li>
Phoronix: New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots</a></li>
Phoronix: Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: Add mt8516-syscfg</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8516: fix syscfg-pctl compatible</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Fix syscfg-pctl compatible for MT8516</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH] testing! arm64: dts: qcom: decrease WiFi antenna regulator minimum to 3.0V</a></li>
Phoronix: ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel</a></li>
</ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For The Old R600g</a></li>
Phoronix: GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-06</a></li>
Matrix.org: FOSDEM 2026 Wrap Up</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (05/2026): Farewell, FOSDEM!
2026-02-02T11:29:18+00:00
This past week: A lot of FOSDEM 2026 content, Kaidan 0.15.0 adds experimental audio/video calls (Jingle, Linux-only for now, NLnet-funded); libcamera 0.7.0 released; and Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 registration opens. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

All-Purpose Mat: Linux? On my phone??</a>. Great write-up!</em></li>
Phoronix: Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E506: SOFS – The app for FOSDEM 26</a></li>
Anino Ni Kugi: I made my own NexPhone | Fairphone 5 (Ubuntu Touch Desktop Mode)</a></li>
DotConfig: Is this the year of the Linux... Phone? - Furiphone FLX1s Review/Experience</a></li>
CHANNEL RAMBLE: Is Ubuntu Touch Worth It In 2026? (Pixel 3a)</a></li>
orailnoor: I Built a Triple-Boot Phone: Linux, Windows & Android (Before NexPhone)</a></li>
Hal bro: Comparing Mi A1 on postmarketOS and Redmi Note 4X on Ubuntu Touch!</a></li>
The Linux Experience: This new modular Linux handheld looks very nice & other Linux Weekly News</a></li>
128bytes: Mecha Comet: A Modular Linux Handheld for Power Users</a></li>
</ul>
FOSDEM</h4>

FOSDEM 2026 - "State of FOSS on mobile"</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Mainline kernel for Fairphones - 2026 update</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - postmarketOS: Reliability in 2026</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Photos and Video Recording on Mobile Phones</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Running mainline Linux on the Unisoc-based Jolla C2</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Running GNOME OS on mobile phones</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - The Linux Phone App Ecosystem (2026)</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mainline: From Day-1 Patches to Product Reality</a></li>
</ul>
Make sure to also check the rest of FOSS on Mobile track and other talks linked in my FOSDEM post</a> during the week for more videos - over time, more recordings should show up.</em></p>
Worth Noting</h3>

valpackett: "Achievement unlocked: receive SMS on a #postmarketOS mainline Linux phone! (last year's nugget had a carrier locked modem, this one doesn't so it just works)Also the selfie camera works, thanks to a WIP driver by @z3ntu! (this moto has the same front camera as the Fairphone 3)"</a></li>
proycon: "I think I have a phone addiction. Am I constantly on my smartphonedoomscrolling news/socials? Not at all, I often leave the thing untouched for days and don't have traditional social media. Am I constantly chattering on various calls racking up the phone bill? Nope, 5 minutes calltime a month is probably already a gross overestimate. Glued to my phone in public transport? No, I look out the window. Then what is the problem? I keep buying second hand phones to try #postmarketos and #sxmo on !!"</a></li>
ybon: My "Linux on a #dumbphone " journey continues: minimal T9 like typing on the Nokia 8110 4G running @postmarketOS(WIP) Code of the fcitx5 addon: https://codeberg.org/ybon/fcitx5-t9 See you at FOSDEM?</a></li>
dos: The first step forward 👀#librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #lin/ux #shotonlibrem5</a></li>
Drew Nailor: I think the Minimum Mass Viability Metric (MMVM) for Linux on the desktop is games, while for Linux on phones it's phone calls and text messages. This doesn't mean either of them aren't viable for some groups if those needs aren't met (I used Linux on my desktop in 2014, for example), it just means that's what a mass audience would need for it to be viable in general.1/2#Linux #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux</a></li>
</ul>
Hardware</h4>

Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: What are peoples thoughts on the Mecha Comet?</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Pi Compute Module Powers Fully Open Smartphone</a></li>
@FuriLabs: Our NEW Convergence Hub is now available. https://furilabs.com/shop/convergence-hub/  #Convergence #furilabs #FLX1 #FLX1S #linuxonmobile #furiOS</a></li>
</ul>
FOSDEM in Rearview Mirror</h4>
Show content</summary>

LINux on MOBile: FOSDEM 2026 Recommendations</a></li>
FuriLabs: FOSDEM 2026</a></li>
mechasystems: #FOSDEM was absolutely AMAZING!We appreciate all of you for giving us your time at our impromptu booth and testing out the new Comet units; we have a ton of updates enroute!</a></li>
postmarketOS: "We had a great FOSDEM yet again, thanks everybody for stopping by! It was fun hearing appreciation of our project by existing users, but also to explain our project to people that have never heard of us.We can't wait to be back next year!Our hackathon is starting now and we'll report about what happened there later this week."</a></li>
piggz: "Some pics from the #fosdem @jolla #sailfishos stand and meetup. Visible a @pine64 PPP and keyboard, a @volla tablet, and the J2 models"</a></li>
postmarketOS: "We're ready at #FOSDEM2026! Come visit us at UD2 and we'll tell you about all the awesome things we do and what happened since last year.We're showing off Fairphone as a desktop setup, our brand-new hardware CI, our work-in-progress immutable edition and more!Also, we have some limited amount of t-shirts to sell, so come by before they run out!"</a></li>
rainemak: "Jolla is at FOSDEM! Welcome to meet the team, try the new Jolla Phone appearance model at your own hand 👋 and see the latest Sailfish OS community ports ❤️For limited time you can apply a discount code FOSDEM2026 at the Jolla Shop and you’ll get a free Jolla pipo.https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder#FOSDEM2026 @jolla"</a></li>
modal: @adz is talking about the Walkaway stack!#fosdem #p2panda #localfirst</a></li>
#MobileLinux: Skyler Grey of @CollaboraOffice presenting #CollaboraOfficeDesktop running on #MobileLinux at #FOSDEM #FOSSonMobile track</a></li>
pak0st: The 4k video playback on the #PineTab2 is really impressive!The @pine64 stall at #FOSDEM was great 💯💯</a></li>
devrtz: "If you're at #FOSDEM you have a couple of hours left to grab some stickers, play with phones, chat with us or grab one of two very exclusive #Phosh T-Shirts (sizes M & L)!#Phosh #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #ShotOnLibrem5"</a></li>
nlnet: "We had a great time at #FOSDEM, as always. It is such a treasure to gather with so many fantastic people from the #FOSS community. This is all thanks to the @fosdem volunteers who make this great happening possible. A very big thank you to everyone who contributed. It had such as positive impact that it brought an early spring to Brussels."</a></li>
libcamera: Learn about camera tuning possibilities and plans with the new GPU ISP tomorrow at @fosdem in UD 2.120 at 13:30 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BQJPUP-libcamera-tuning/</a></li>
#sailfishOS: What a great Sailfish OS meetup we had yesterday after a busy FOSDEM day #1! Thank you Sailfish Community!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/fosdem-2026-sailfish-os-meetup-and-bof/26813/27Please join to Sailfish OS BoF (Birds of Feather) starting 12:00 local time at H.3242 if you happen to be around.https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BJSXH9-sailfish-bof/#sailfishos #jolla #fosdem2026</a></li>
danctnix: Check out the PINE64 booth at #fosdem2026 on Sunday for these cool #PineTab2 demos!(video decoding demo is hevc/h265)#fosdem</a></li>
DanctNIX (Mastodon): the mentioned "suspicious pacman icon" demo can be found on pouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55991</a></li>
DanctNIX (Mastodon): Have you tapped on the suspicious pacman icon (or "a fun demo :D") on the #pinetab2 desktop at #fosdem2026 ?If you did not attend FOSDEM or never visited the stand, don't vote or vote "I want the results"#fosdem #pine64Yes :)No :(I want the results</a></li>
okias: Want a premium Linux shirt that actually looks good? 🐧📱Our well-designed shirt (penguin holding a phone) is 100% cotton with a stitched penguin logo.Available this weekend at the #FOSDEM #LinuxOnMobile stand.Location: Building U, entrance UD2 — grab your size before they’re gone!Model: @Standara3217 #FOSDEM2026 #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #sdm845 #Mobian #Phosh #Linux</a></li>
</ul>
Personal note:</em> This FOSDEM was, once again, a blast. I want to thank everyone for the nice interactions (especially Chris, Guillaume, Jesus, Norman, Ollie and Pablo), with special thanks to flypig for inviting me to the stand and helping with my talk and Timo from AsteroidOS for the nice 3D printed phone stands!</p>
If somehow possible, I'll try and return next year (without a talk though 😉)._</p>
</details>
More Software News</h3>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS (Mastodon): Day 2 of #FOSDEM2026 and we're back ready to show our project! If you still want a t-shirt come by quick as they're running out fast!</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Great news from @lynxis in OpenIMSD:"I've written a profile manager for the QCOM baseband which talks to the PDC service.The PDC is the persistent device configuration. It controls similar settings as the carrier configuration on Android, such as the APN, SMSC, the IMS functionality, the 5G functionality, ... But the PDC profiles have more control over the baseband than the Android carrier configuration does."Full blog post:https://www.openimsd.com/09-qcom-baseband-profile-manager.htmlSource code:https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/modem/openimsd/qcom-baseband-profile-manager#openimsd #linuxmobile</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): As we've posted in our monthly blog posts before we're working hard on hardware CI to automatically run a bunch of tests on various phones for changes in the software we ship.To accomplish this some of our team members have created PCB's to connect the phones to so we have full control over them, and after some iterations the first batch of the production units have just arrived!We'll start setting them up in the hackathon we're doing after #FOSDEM and we'll soon share the initial results!</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: device-sqfmi-beepy: update module building again</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: libcamera: add camshark-setup subpackage</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: Fairphone 5: add support for microphone</a></li>
Phoronix: GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building</a></li>
Update 14.0.1 - FuriPhone FLX1s Linux Phone</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Musicfetch</a></li>
#LinuxMobile: Could not be at #fosdem to show our very early Web based user agent running on @mobian unfortunately 😞 Check it at https://tangled.org/me.webbeef.org/browser.html/#mobilelinux #linuxmobile #web</a>. Using Servo, awesome!</em></li>
#LinuxMobile: Could not be at #fosdem to show our very early Web based user agent running on @mobian unfortunately 😞 Check it at https://tangled.org/me.webbeef.org/browser.html/#mobilelinux #linuxmobile #web</a></li>
alaraajavamma: "I looked how to make Calls, Chatty and Contacts better but soon find out that my brains are limited because I got nowhere, sorry. There are some things what I need daily what are missing. But I can do workarounds. This is not 1., 2. or even 3. time for this workaround 😆 . It started like that but after lot of mentoring it might someday be actual app. For now this is "do not look at it but it just works" contacts, calls, sms, mms app for FLX1 and FLX1s#Phosh #furilabs #linuxmobile #flx1s #flx1"</a></li>
mobilni_linux_cs_sk: Fruits of our hackday are here! CoMaps for Linux (including phones) is now on Flathub.Huge thanks to Radek (riadok)!https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/6792#CoMaps #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #FlatHub</a></li>
Kaidan.im: Kaidan 0.15.0: Audio/Video Calls and Integrated Search Field</a></li>
valpackett: It runs #Xonotic! well, runs. Walks? xD actually "playable" at 720p but for fullscreen i only get portrait resolutions in #phosh even if i'm in landscape (maybe just needed to relaunch but oh well)#postmarketOS #sdm632</a></li>
Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: ProcessOne (ejabberd) just released a new XMPP client - it works on mobile!</a></li>
</ul>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #234 Annotated Documents</a></li>
Planet GNOME: Asman Malika: Mid-Point Project Progress: What I’ve Learned So Far</a></li>
Planet GNOME: Lucas Baudin: Drawing and Writing on PDFs in Papers (and new blog)</a></li>
Phoronix: Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental</a></li>
Phoronix: GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Join the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port</a></li>
phoronix: "Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phosh-GTK4-Progress"</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): Nice, hopefully some of these improvements make it back into calls/chatty/contacts https://fosstodon.org/@alaraajavamma/1159...</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): We've just merged some code to automatically scale up the on screen keyboard in landscape on larger screens like tablets also...</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): One thing bothering us when playing videos with our little, mobile friendly video player #livi was that playing from video si...</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): Wow, #phosh with the large bottom bar, haven't seen that for some time. Nice! https://fosstodon.org/@martijnbraam/1159681885...</a></li>
#phosh: Installed #postmarketos again. This time the edge repo and the #Phosh GUI. Succeeded in connecting a Jabra device. Music audio works. Phone call audio not for me. A battery indicator now is shown.</a></li>
#phosh: Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Porthttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Phosh-GTK4-Progress #Phosh #Linux #Fosdem</a></li>
#phosh: Not all of us #phosh contributors can be at #FOSDEM26, so if you spot  somewhere, we'd be excited to see a photo. Have fun everyone!</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release</a></li>
Kaidan.im: Kaidan 0.15.0: Audio/Video Calls and Integrated Search Field</a></li>
Volker Krause: December/January in KDE Itinerary</a></li>
notmart: KWallet, SecretService, oo7: the story so far</a></li>
Qt blog: Call for Presentations – Qt World Summit 2026 in Berlin</a></li>
#plasmamobile: @kde  Konqi is pleased with their new Mecha comet!   ☄️Coming soon at #KDE stand at @fosdem 2026!#kde #plasmamobile #MechaComet</a></li>
Phoronix: Plasma 6.7 Restoring The Air Plasma Theme, Fixes KWin Issue With Intense Alt+Tab'ing</a></li>
</ul>
Maui Project</h4>

Nitrux: Another change is coming to Nitrux 6.0: we'll use our own login greeter, QMLGreet (very much a W.I.P, mind you).The reason is that customizing QtGreet proved to be a bad endeavour, and there are no QML greeters for greetd. See: https://github.com/orgs/Nitrux/discussions/216#Nitrux #QML #Updates</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

adampigg: Today i will mostly be travelling to brussels for my first fosdem :)</a></li>
#sailfishOS: J2 pre-orders passed 8200 of 10000.The pace will pick up at the end. Just a reminder. 🐟 #sailfishos #jolla</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Is there a #BitWarden client for #SailfishOS? Or does the android app work?Since i think #GTK apps do not work, i am asking for alternatives?</a></li>
#sailfishOS: @arcanechat Yeah, I would move to it if there was an app for #sailfishos</a>. As this is about DeltaChat: I suppose that DeltaTouch (for Ubuntu Touch) should be easier to port than the Electron app.</em></li>
#sailfishOS: There are so many good looking #SailfishOS apps, so I got a bit inspired.I have rewritten a few pages of Reis, my travel planner.I think I am finally using ListView correctly with search in the header of the main page. Some QoL like switching from/to in the planner.</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports - Development - Issues: Loss of OSK for the xmir-apps in 2.x</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Port to CMake and Qt 6</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: I’m wondering how many folk at #fosdem are looking at how we can create a strong mobile ecosystem that’s not based around US corporations (i.e. Apple or Google). 🤔Maybe something built around #ubuntutouch? https://www.ubuntu-touch.io</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: @flysqu @cfo Fair enough, each to their own. Main reasons I've used #UbuntuTouch for over 10 years are (1) it is a phone, with calls, camera, music etc that actually work - and well; (2) it has a good store of apps that work on handheld devices; (3) it's not Google or Apple. I have a handheld device with #PostmarketOS too, and it's nice and all that, but not yet actually a working phone. When it matches the capability of #UbuntuTouch as a daily driver I might switch, but it's not there yet. I appreciate all the work that the developers are putting in on both OSes.</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: [PATCH v2] remoteproc: qcom_wcnss: Fix handling the lack of PD regulators in v3</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] iio: light: Add support for Capella cm36686 and cm36672p sensors</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom: Add SM6350 LPI pinctrl</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux's b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper</a></li>
Phoronix: AI Code Review Prompts Initiative Making Progress For The Linux Kernel</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week</a></li>
</ul>
Releases</h4>

libcamera: libcamera v0.7.0</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: libcamera v0.7.0 released</a></li>
@linmob@linuxmobile.social: #libcamera 0.7 really improved my camera experience on the OnePlus 6 running #postmarketOS edge. Not only do the results loo...</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
AsteroidOS: Tags 2.0 · AsteroidOS/qml-asteroid · GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: Matrix on Cloudflare Workers</a></li>
Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.342 Published With Cooperative Matrix Conversion Extension</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


FOSDEM 2026 Recommendations
2026-01-30T11:50:00+00:00
FOSDEM 2026 is approaching, and here's a short post with recommendations for those interested in the topic of this blog.</p>
</span>
Before I mention stands and talks and therefore points in space and time, let me recommend nav.fosdem.org</a>, a neat web map to find the rooms more easily.</p>
The stands</h3>
This FOSDEM will feature three stands</a> with a focus on running Linux on Mobile:</p>

FuriLabs</li>
Linux on Mobile (find me there)</li>
postmarketOS</li>
</ul>
All in building UD, level 2 - where I have never been, but it's close to the food trucks, which is good, and not to far from the dev room.</p>
Aside from these,</p>

KDE (with this fun gadget</a>) and</li>
GNOME</li>
</ul>
are in K level 2 (group B), various instant messaging stands are in AW level 1, and the PINE64 Community will be present in building K level 1 on Sunday.</p>
Talks</h3>
Luckily, there'll be another "FOSS on Mobile" devroom in UB4.132 (yes, 4th floor), covering the whole saturday. There's one caveat though: This year, it also features various talk on FOSS AOSP projects, that have been traditionally in a different room - it's all FOSS on Mobile, so one room is okay :-)</p>
As I won't have the time to update a local copy of the schedule, just check it out on the FOSDEM.org page</a>.</p>
Other noteworthy talks include:</p>

FOSDEM 2026 - Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop with Modal, Reflection and p2panda</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - libcamera software ISP status update</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - No Line Like Mainline: Update On The Fully Mainline Software Stack For Rockchip SoCs</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Add Support for New Boards to Mainline Linux, U-Boot and Yocto</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - Wayland input method wrap up</a></li>
FOSDEM 2026 - One Flutter Embedder to Rule Them All</a></li>
</ul>
The list of recommendations on CNX-Software</a> may also be helpful.</p>
If you've found something else that should be in this post, let me know!</p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (04/2026): Hardware in the Loop
2026-01-25T23:25:17+00:00
This past week: postmarketOS launches hardware testing automation MVP (OnePlus 6T now tested in CI on real hardware via custom PCB and CI-tron) and posts January 2026 update covering systemd musl upstream progress and contributor highlights, Mecha Comet modular Linux handheld launches on Kickstarter, immutable Duranium boots on OnePlus 6, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a collection of Sailfish OS Community news and Jolla Phone referral program announced with 10,000 pre-order deadline extended to end of February. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

alaraajavamma for FuriLabs blog: “Honey, I’m home” - Part 8</a></li>
postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-01: monthly blog post reboot</a></li>
postmarketOS Blog: Hardware testing automation: a minimum viable product</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Hardware testing automation: a minimum viable product</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: This smartphone runs Android, Linux, and even Windows 11</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
Jan Wagemakers: Broken shift6mq phone - oops I did it again...</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E505: Thinking about preordering the Jolla Phone 2026? SFOS App Compatibility</a></li>
mkiol: Slideshow feature in Jupii 2.16 for Sailfish OS</a></li>
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 182</a>. Great one, make sure to watch this :-)</em></li>
thevoidkernel: How to Install Ubuntu Touch on Android Phone - Complete Tutorial 2026</a></li>
고르고르 건즈: "DIY UMPC - uConsole Cyberdeck cm4,cm5 실사용후기"</a></li>
Laura Malvoyante: Jolla 2026 Announced | Is This European Device Worth Upgrading From the C2?</a></li>
Software Relics: Linux Explained in 30 Seconds – The OS That Runs the World 🐧 #techshorts</a></li>
JuanBagnell: This Android Phone is ALSO a Linux AND Windows PC! NexPhone Hands On!</a></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

craftyguy: "Hey lookie here, it's the first boot of Duranium (immutable postmarketOS) on a OnePlus 6 / Android phone 😁#postmarketos"</a></li>
Jc00qe: first steps done. next would be to add the "add to dash" and "remove from dash" when holding an app. then to stop unpinned running app from showing.don't expect a release until everything is all done.</a></li>
okennedy: "While repairing my #librem5 screen a month or so ago, I took the opportunity to run some fine grit sandpaper over the GPS antenna contacts and very gently</strong> bend the contact pin out a touch.Since doing that, the GPS is now actually usable. I usually have a rough position by the time maps finishes loading, and a full lock only a minute or two later. Last major nit overcome!"</a></li>
Purism community: Most missed feature / most wanted improvement for Librem 5</a></li>
</ul>
Hardware Corner</h4>

Liliputing: Mecha Comet modular Linux handheld hits Kickstarter for $189 and up</a></li>
CNX-Software: Mecha Comet is an open-source hardware, modular Linux handheld computer (Crowdfunding)</a></li>
Luigi311: The Mecha Comet #mobilelinux kickstarter has gone live. Comes with either an IMX8M Plus up to 4GB Ram or a IMX95 up to 8GB Ram. Looks like a really nice linux first device running a downstream 6.12 kernel. It has a m.2 slot which can accept a modem for cell service but no ear piece so calls will be speaker mode only. Cameras are already working using the ISP. Hope they meet their timeline of this year as I can’t wait to get mine.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer#MechaComet</a></li>
Liliputing: NexPhone is a phone you can use as a desktop PC with Android, Linux, and Windows 11 support</a>. The NexPhone is not what I would call a Linux Phone - it's an Android phone, that can launch a Linux app (think Termux + GUI) and reboot into Windows 11 - if anything, it's a Windows 11 phone out of the box.</em></li>
</ul>
FOSDEM</h4>

@FuriLabs: We will be at FOSDEM 2026. Jan 31 and Feb 1.Just look for our black flags with the Furilabs and VoidPhone logo’s on them. We will have a heap of phones to test and buy in person. We will have at least 3 people at the booth to answer all your FLX1S questions. https://furilabs.com/fosdem-2026/#flx1s #furilabs #fosdem2026 #fosdem</a></li>
gnome: "Meet GNOME at FOSDEM 2026!Come and visit our booth, talk with contributors, get some swag! See you there in almost one week!You can find the booth in building K level 2."</a></li>
Codeberg: Codeberg and Forgejo will have a stand (K5) at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels. Come by and chat with Codeberg and Forgejo contributors.There'll also be Codeberg and Forgejo stickers. If your Codeberg or Forgejo hosted project has stickers and you're looking for a way to distribute them: Get in touch and we can organise it!#fosdem #fosdem2026 #codeberg #forgejo</a></li>
phosh: Going to #FOSDEM and interested in #Phosh? @devrtz will give a talk on Saturday 16:30 in the FOSS on Mobile devroom (UB4.132) and there'll be devices running Phosh in UD1 at the #linuxonmobile and @postmarketOS booths.#linuxmobile</a></li>
nlnet: "Each year we are excited to see how many NLnet grantees we can spot in the list of @fosdem speakers. This year is a new high with over 100 speakers!Another record will be broken at our hex sticker table. We'll be bringing over 300.000 stickers featuring more than 300 unique hex designs.We have 2 BoF meetups, 1 with @NGIZero and 1 NLnet get-together and we'll be bringing snacks.And Michiel Leenaars will give the opening keynote on Saturday.Let's meet at #FOSDEM!https://nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDEM26/index.html "</a></li>
genode: We're looking forward to @fosdem in a week!The microkernel devroom will be on Sunday starting 11:15 in K.4.201https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/microkernel/We also have a stand in building H level 1 (group A).https://fosdem.org/2026/stands/See you there!</a></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #233 Editing Events</a></li>
Ignacy Kuchciński: Digital Wellbeing Contract: Conclusion</a></li>
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-01-23</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME's AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

phosh: 🥳 Earlier today we landed the bits in #phosh to show the splash screens of running apps in the overview. This also hopefully looks a bit more polished than the initial version . Likely not much news on other platforms but this was bugging us for some time 😅:#LinuxMobile #gtk #linux #mobile</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): From the photo it looks like #phosh is under test there too, awesome and congrats to this big step in driving test automation...</a></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): FIrst screenshot we've seen from #Pocketblue with #Phosh on a real device: https://wetdry.world/@runefish/115905527751141646...</a></li>
#phosh: Everytime I play fullscreen a #phosh screencap video on android, I feel the need to have it for real...</a></li>
#phosh: @dubstar_04 @phosh Just tested #gnome-network-display which #phosh and it works. The TypeCee MMS-3000 I have for testing is sometimes not detected by the TV but when it is I can mirror things. I'm seeing a lot of 2026/01/22 11:55:37 [DEBUG] - pipewire: buffer already exported</code> from the portal and some corruption when that happens which I'm not seeing when using the portal for e.g. screen-sharing in BBB/Jitsi .</a></li>
#phosh: #MobileLinux folks, is there a way to use the #stevia on-screen keyboard from #Phosh on #GnomeMobile ?#postmarketos #mobian #linuxphones</a></li>
sequencode: 5G 🎉️ #droidian #linuxmobile #phosh #gnome</a></li>
agx: @peja #kooha flatpak works as well for me in #phosh both for recording the full screen as well as a part of the screen.</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: fixing all the things</a></li>
Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps</a></li>
KDE Mentorship: Season Of KDE 2026 Projects</a></li>
Nicolas Fella: Detecting Memory Leaks in KDE CI</a></li>
Qt Blog: Qt 6.5 Reaches End-of-Support in April 2026</a></li>
#plasmamobile: In Sunnyvale for ~12 hours, love the photos #megapixels takes at dusk #pinephone #manjaro #kde #plasmamobile</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week</a></li>
</ul>
Sxmo</h4>

@pocketvj@fosstodon.org: what real usable alternatives to #facebook do exist?i want to move our villagers away from fb as the official channel, but i need to give them a userfriendly #foss alternative. best even hosted in #finland #Suomi by real humans.now is the best moment to explain how we can support democracy and freedom of speech. #ActivityPub #Mastodon #pixelfed #digitalindependenceday #lapland</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, January 22nd 2026 - FOSDEM 2026</a></li>
frankps: Another milestone is 7.500 pre-orders of the upcoming phone from @jolla . Hm. I just recently got my C2 phone and it is so tempting to pre-order the new phone!#SailfishOS #LinuxMobile #Privacy</a></li>
adampigg: Yay, I helped convert an IPhone user to #SailfishOS with Amazfish :)</a></li>
jolla: "When long-time community member @cybette said the Jolla C2 felt a bit too big for her hands, we didn’t just take notes. We invited her over. She stopped by the office to try the new Jolla Phone appearance models in person.Her verdict:“8.5/10 for size, materials, and hand-feel. After handling the sample model for the better part of an hour, I’m apprehensive no more. It fits well in my small-ish hands.” She also notes it may go up to a 9/10 once the final weight and balance are locked in.Read the full, unfiltered forum post here:https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/my-first-impression-of-the-jolla-phone-appearance-models/27272/6#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered"</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Jolla Phone - Referral Program Jolla recently introduced a referral program and shares ideas on how the community can help newcomers get started with #SailfishOS or support them with questions such as Android app compatibility. There’s also the possibility to get a referral code if you’d like to promote the Jolla Phone — with it, you can earn yourself a #Jolla T-shirt.❗️Also, the 10'000 pre-order challenge has been extended until the end of February 2026 🥳Link: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-referral-program/</a></li>
#sailfishOS: I'm jumping up and down, and I can't wait to try this app out!A first version of a native #Immich app for #SailfishOS just got published over at OpenRepos: https://openrepos.net/content/cyberdream/sailmichSweeeeeet!</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Just released Jupii 2.16 – the ultimate UPnP/DLNA app for Sailfish OS and Linux desktop.Release highlight: - A new Slideshow feature - lets you combine a series of images into a low-framerate video that plays in real time.SFOS video demo (YT link, sorry): https://youtu.be/6Yya4BMha9wFull changelog: https://gitlab.com/mkiol/jupii/-/releases/v2.16.0Flathub link: https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.mkiol.Jupii#sailfishos #sfos #jupii</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 182 Call for Questions</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: buteo-syncml: sync packaging from salsa.debian.org</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Screen/Display switching still works in Virtual Touchpad mode</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: kf6-kcalendarcore: Vendor package from Debian unstable</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: qmenumodel: Upstream needs to be ported to Qt 6</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: buteo-sync-plugins: sync packaging from salsa.debian.org</a></li>
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Synchronize parts of Debian packaging with Debian downstream</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: @subhanqedirli @sequencode Does it have banking via a conventional web site? Perhaps not as fully-featured as a bank app, in my experience, but still usable for certain transactions.#UbuntuTouch  has an app called Webber that creates a half-decent webapp from any web page.</a></li>
Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: I was still wondering why navigation wasn’t working for me (PineTime + Amazfish on #UBports). In the end, it turned out to be AppArmor in Pure Maps (there is now an unconfined version of the app in the store). Navigation must be enabled in the #Amazfish settings, and the resources (navigation images) must be uploaded to the #PineTime.</a></li>
</ul>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-01: monthly blog post reboot</a></li>
postmarketOS Blog: Hardware testing automation: a minimum viable product</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: The postmarketos-mvcfg package has been removed</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): If you have quiet audio in postmarketOS edge or stable with systemd and GNOME or Phosh installs, read this blog post: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/17/v25.12-release-issue/</a></li>
postmarketOS pmbootstrap tags: 3.9.0</a></li>
Martijn Braam: BodgeOS pt.6</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

Luigi311: Looks like a really good #jellyfin music player is coming to #mobilelinux hopefully soon. Finamp is flutter based and looks like someone added in a CI for building an arm build recently and it looks great. Seems to require EGL > 1.5 and GLES > 3.0 though for hardware acceleration. This is a nice looking app and hopefully at some point i can run it accelerated on one of my devices i actually carry.</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Mousam</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Unify</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Cine</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Morse</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: NoMoreBackground</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Ricochlime</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Deliveries</a></li>
wannoye: #phanpy is cute PWA application that you can use for browsing fediverse on your #linuxphone using Web Apps app from #flathub.</a></li>
mark9064: PineTime Bluetooth utilities</a>. Thanks TelegraphRoad!</em></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: [PATCH RESEND v7 0/7] clk: bcm: kona: Add bus clock support, bus clocks for BCM21664/BCM281xx</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: milos-fairphone-fp6: Add Hall Effect sensor</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3] drm/msm/dpu: Add DSPP GC driver to provide GAMMA_LUT DRM property</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: (subset) [PATCH v2 0/5] Enable QoS configuration for SM6350</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix volume up and add RTC, PRNG, UART in xiaomi-ginkgo</a></li>
</ul>
Releases</h4>

Phoronix: VVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains</a></li>
Phoronix: DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements</a></li>
Phoronix: GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions</a></li>
Phoronix: GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel</a></li>
Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions</a></li>
Phoronix: Servo 0.0.4 Browser Engine Released & Finally Supporting Multiple Windows</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-01-23</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (03/2026): Release Plans and Foreshadowing
2026-01-18T17:26:39+00:00
This past week: PureOS Crimson December development report teases release updater, PineTab2 camera support progressing (front and rear cameras working), PinePhone Pro PDAF pixel artifacts being eliminated, PocketBlue booting on Poco F1, Mecha Comet Kickstarter launching soon, and LinuxPhoneApps.org publishes Q4 2025 progress report. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

alaraajavamma for FuriLabs blog: They said you can’t teach old phones new tricks until postmarketOS arrived - Part 7 - FuriPhone FLX1s Linux Phone</a></li>
alaraajavamma for FuriLabs blog: The New King Has Arrived – Please Welcome Pinephone Pro - Part 6</a></li>
techglimmer: The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along</a></li>
CAIS: FLX1s – Erfahrungsbericht und Vergleich zum FLX1</a></li>
Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: December 2025</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org Blog: 2nd Half Q4 2025 Progress and 2026 Foreshadowing</a>. This one may actually be worth reading ;-)</em></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

RTP Tech Tips: Pinetab 2: Flashing Arch Linux & WiFi Test</a></li>
Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E504: SFOS App "Dampffish" for Steam & Referal Program</a></li>
Anino Ni Kugi: Touchscreen and Virtual Touchpad Gestures | Lomiri Plus (Ubuntu Touch)</a></li>
David Hamner: Do Hardware Kill Switches Actually Work?</a>. Good explainer!</em></li>
Ksk Royal: How To Install LINUX With GUI On Android 16 (Natively)</a></li>
orailnoor: I Installed Ubuntu Touch on My Phone in 2026 — Should You?</a></li>
Smartphone Nostalgia: Nokia N9, a phone way ahead of its time 🔥😍</a></li>
Dominic Corriveau: Leaving ChromeOS for PostmarketOS on the Lenovo Duet 3 - Thoughts & Overview</a></li>
Nicco Loves Linux: We Need More of these Linux Laptops!</a>. … or tablets.</em></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

Mecha Comet on Kickstarter: We are almost there now, the Comet goes live on January 24!</a></li>
jmlich: "I was still wondering why navigation wasn’t working for me (PineTime + Amazfish on #UBports). In the end, it turned out to be AppArmor in Pure Maps (there is now an unconfined version of the app in the store). Navigation must be enabled in the #Amazfish settings, and the resources (navigation images) must be uploaded to the #PineTime."</a></li>
dos: cold purrs #shotonlibrem5 #catsofmastodon #snow #librem5</a></li>
peja: "Took the car for a longer drive today and figured it was the perfect chance to test navigation on my #linuxphone. Тhe road is really winding, so it's easy to see if the position tracking is accurate. I wasn’t expecting much since, when I’m stationary, all apps seem to drift by about 100 meters. To my surprise #PureMaps was just as precise as OsmAnd on Android, which I kept running side-by-side for comparison.So, on #pixel3a with #postmarketos GPS works perfectly when you’re on the move."</a></li>
Luigi311: #PinephonePro pdaf pixels be gone! Before: https://photos.luigi311.com/s/imx258 After: https://photos.luigi311.com/s/imx258-pdaf Should hopefully be getting less artifacts on the PPP rear camera sometime soon</a></li>
runefish: "Finally got #Pocketblue booting on my Poco F1! Still needs some work to fix audio and bluetooth, but it shouldn't be too difficult#linuxmobile #mobilelinux"</a></li>
mobilni_linux_cs_sk: "Makáme. out-of-picture @okiasKernel, kamery (libcamera, autofocus), balíčkování CoMaps, Linux na Samsung S4 Mini, NixOS Mobile demo atd.#Prague #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Flatpak #CoMaps #sdm845 #NixOS #NixOS_mobile"</a>. CoMaps packaging sounds great!</em></li>
danct12: Got back camera to work on the #PineTab2 EDIT: I think this should be considered as #LinuxMobile too.. right?</a>, Got an image from the #PineTab2 front camera! 📸 The pixel format is all wrong.. but at least it's a picture and you can make out the details in it!#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux</a></li>
FuriLabs: FAQs Are Released We just released new automated FAQ's & a Telegram bot. Please contrib to the PR's https://github.com/FuriLabs/faq/.https://furilabs.com/new-faqs/</a>. See also this app</a>. I like the idea.</em></li>
r/MobileLinux: Looking to port a device</a></li>
r/MobileLinux: Run Linux desktop on any recent Android phone or tablet</a></li>
</ul>
Events</h4>

fluconf: The form for proposing contributions for FluConf 2026 is now live. Read all about it in the accompanying blog post:https://fluconf.online/blog/now-accepting-proposals-for-fluconf-2026/#fluConf #fluConf2026</a></li>
fosdem: https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-01-11-travel-transportation-advisories/</a>. Railway strike.</em></li>
dcz: Thank you #FOSDEM Graphics track organizers for accepting my proposal! I'm excited to tell where I (re-)took this #Wayland project I started back in 2018!https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/Curse you FOSDEM organizers for accepting my proposal! Now I have to prepare it :P</a></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #232 Upcoming Deadlines</a></li>
Arun Raghavan: Accessibility Update: Enabling Mono Audio</a></li>
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-01-16</a></li>
Planet GNOME: Sriram Ramkrishna: GNOME OS Hackfest During FOSDEM week</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME 50 Will Make Sure You Don't Use Your Computer Past Your Bedtime</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh.mobi e.V: Our next online community get together is in less than 🔟 days: https://ev.phosh.mobi/gettogether/ . Join us!#LinuxMobile #Phosh</a>. Tuesday.</em></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.5.5, Bugfix Release for January</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release</a></li>
Volker Krause: Transitous Hack Weekend January 2025</a></li>
tsgeos: KDE Gear 26.04 release schedule</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Begins Landing Features For Plasma 6.7, Some Last Minute Plasma 6.6 Improvements</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Announcements on SailfishOS forums: Jolla Phone update - referral program</a></li>
frankps: "Hot, hot, hot!Jolla has just released the first photos of a dummy phone with the actual size and feel. Now we know how the Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone actually will look like!Head over the Sailfish Community forum for a look!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-design-appearance-models/27024@jolla #SailfishOS #LinuxMobile #NextGenJollaPhone"</a></li>
jolla: "⏰ Still 14 hours left to vote.Just like we defined the next gen Jolla Phone together with the community, we’re now doing the same with The Other Half.We’ll open up what’s technically possible, you vote on what we should build, and together we design something genuinely unique.Comments stay open after voting closes, but if you haven’t voted yet, now’s the moment. Every vote counts.👉 Vote now: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/the-other-half-returns-community-innovation-program/26011"</a></li>
frankps: @jolla has just announced a referral program for the upcoming Do It Together Linux phone. In that announcement they shared some figures related to the preorders they have received:- More than 50% are new customers, i.e. the community has grown significantly. Something we already can notice in the forum - Sailfish Forum visitor statistics were up 150% from November to DecemberTruly awesome news for the SailfishOS community! — Welcome to all newcomers!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-referral-program/27123#SailfishOS</a></li>
poetaster: "Announcing version 1.3.0 of tooter, the #SailfishOs mastodon client! Lots of fixes and additions , mostly NOT mine….* edit toot* slideshow > 1 image in a toot* mini previews of links where possible* quote toots* proper multi-person response* alt text for media uploads* polls are visible* a new finish translation* plain text reader view for links* a number of potential race conditionsUp at: https://github.com/poetaster/harbour-tooter/releases/tag/1.3.0 coming soon to harbour, chum .... @molan You'll like this releae."</a></li>
frankps: I hope new Norwegian users on the #SailfishOS will enjoy the translations, and I encourage others to translate the software they use to their language as a warm welcome of all the new community members we will get later this year when the new European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone arrives: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder My recent translation work: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/norwegian-bokmal-third-party-apps-that-can-be-translated/ #LinuxMobile #SailfishCommunity #NextGenJollaPhone @jolla</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports - Development - Issues: [Qt 6] fix tests for Qt 6 builds</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: [24.04-2.x.] nextcloud sync fails</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: My Volla tablet has finally arrived. I'm not exactly excited, but I'm still looking forward to finally having a tablet with an up-to-date OS again.My plan is to first configure Volla OS (their Android OS) so I can replace my old Yoga Tab. Once that's up and running, I'm looking forward to giving Ubuntu Touch a try on it. I don't have many requirements for my tablets, so it might work well enough.#Volla #UbuntuTouch</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Glad to see #postmarketos immutability is still progressing. I think it’s the superior model for end users mobile phones as phone play such a massive role in our live. It ensure a repeatable base that can be tested and rolled back. It’s also why I think #ubuntutouch is such a great idea. This is especially true with something with such rapid changes like #mobilelinux still is. Being able to easily switch DE down the line and reducing the chance of components missing is great. Keep it up!</a></li>
</ul>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS Blog: Quiet audio on systemd with GNOME/Phosh installs for stable and edge</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports issues: Implement offline updates</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports issues: evaluate default zram swap compression algorithm</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: main/postmarketos-release-upgrade-notification: new aport</a></li>
Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: LUKS: fix bootonroot</a></li>
David Heidelberg: Why I Will No Longer Contribute to postmarketOS</a></li>
pabloyoyoista: "Massive kudos to @fossdd for going through the whole of the #postmarketos integration testing repo and fixing/improving documentation about maintainers, as well as to everybody in that stepped up to maintain and contribute to devices whose volunteer maintainers are no longer involved.It is incredible to be part of a community with so many helpful people wanting to contribute and make something better out of old and modern hardware. My deep appreciations"</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org Blog: 2nd Half Q4 2025 Progress and 2026 Foreshadowing</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: NoMoreBackground</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Ricochlime</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Deliveries</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Emergency Alerts</a></li>
h3artbl33d: "… Heads-up: if you use gurk-rs, a Signal client for the terminal, you should update it to either the commit done an hour ago or to version 0.8.1 once it is out. It fixes missing incoming messages due to missing trusted roots :flan_hacker:#Signal #Gurk #OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #FreeBSD #Rust #Terminal"</a>. Flare users need to update too.</em></li>
Modal: The Reflection team is currently planning priorities for the next months, and we're interested in what developers would need to get started using the p2panda stack to add collaboration to their apps. For this, it'd be helpful to know how important GObject bindings are to you:Not important, my apps are in RustI need GObject bindings to get startedSomething else (e.g. make my own bindings)</a></li>
Modal: We're trying to gauge interest in developer events around local-first. If you're curious about adding local-first collaboration to your apps, which event format would you you prefer?A multi-day conference/hackfest in Berlin4 hour evening session in BerlinA series of 2-3 online sessionsSomething else (comment below)</a></li>
Modal: Calling all GTK app developers!As part of the Reflection project we want to lay the groundwork for an ecosystem of native GTK apps with local-first sync/collaboration features. To do this in the most effective way possible we're asking for your input!#gtk #gnome #localfirst #p2panda #berlin</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: [PATCH] clk: qcom: dispcc-sm7150: Fix dispcc_mdss_pclk1_clk_src</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/8] media: camss: Add support for C-PHY configuration on Qualcomm platforms</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v7 5/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm670-google-sargo: add imx355 front camera</a></li>
Phoronix: Patches Positioned Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle For Easy Custom Boot Logo In Place Of Tux</a></li>
Phoronix: Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0</a></li>
</ul>
Stack</h4>

Flathub Blog: What's new in Vorarbeiter</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-01-16</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>


Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (02/2026): Plasma on a Comet
2026-01-11T18:03:22+00:00
This past week: Mecha Comet prototype (NXP i.MX 8M Mini modular handheld) can run Plasma Mobile, Ubuntu Touch Q&A 181 covers Morph Browser Qt6 beta and two hardware teasers, FuriLabs has a FLX1s sale and announces Convergence Dock, a call for your opinions on Apps on #LinuxMobile and way more. Enjoy!</p>
</span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>

etbe - Russell Coker: Phone Charging Speeds With Debian/Trixie</a>. For reference: At least according to the Powersupply app, I managed to charge my Librem 5 with 5V at 3A - but only with two specific chargers.</em></li>
Jesse Smith for DistroWatch: postmarketOS 25.06 and 25.12</a></li>
Luigi311: Pinephone Pro</a></li>
FuriLabs: Happy 2026 with a HUGE sale! - FuriPhone FLX1s Linux Phone</a></li>
Matthew Garrett: What is a PC compatible?</a>. Also off-topic, but ... knowing the story of the standardized PC market can help when explaining the difficulties to run $distro on ARM or smartphones.</em></li>
JustSoup321 Development Blog: Middle-Click on Linux: An Objective View</a> Just leaving this in for all Linux Desktop users upset about a GNOME change I as a TrackPoint user am very much in favor of.</em></li>
</ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E503: News about Sailfish OS – Sailfish OS & Surface Duo</a></li>
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 181</a>. Morph Browser Qt6, xdg-portal-lomiri, two hardware teasers and way more exciting stuff!</em>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 181</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
daunsoft: Trying Mobian Linux 13 with Plasma Mobile on Poco F1</a></li>
daunsoft: Trying Mobian Linux 13 with Phosh on Poco F1</a></li>
DistroTester: Phosh 0.52 GNOME-Based Mobile Shell Brings QR Codes for Wi-Fi Hotspots</a></li>
David Hamner: Linux Phone That Actually Works</a></li>
Adrian Ortega: How to install/build postmarketOS with pmbootstrap.</a></li>
DansDesigns: DIY Smartphone OS | OSM-Phone | 02</a></li>
orailnoor: I Installed Native Linux on Phone (So Should you?) - YouTube</a>. Missed this when it was new.</em></li>
</ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

goldfish: "#OpenBSD 5.4 on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100.While 6.0 was the last version to support Zaurus, X breaks in 5.5. I don't have a working network card yet, but hopefully will soon.#NetBSD still supports the Zaurus, but I wasn't able to install it."</a></li>
tbernard: If anyone's looking for a fun illustration project or an opportunity to get into the GNOME artwork style: Crosswords needs some illustrations for the "How to Play" instructions :) https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crosswords/-/issues/361 Example from Sudoku:#gnome #icons #illustrations</a></li>
bradlinder: "Starting this year, Google will only release new builds of Android's source code twice a year instead of four times each year. The new schedule will involve major updates in Q2 and smaller updates in Q4. https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-source-code-schedule-3630018/"</a>. To be fair: This sounds worse than it may be, as it used to be once a year not that long ago</a>.</em></li>
</ul>
Hardware (enablement)</h4>

okias: The novatek,nt36672a</code> Display Driver IC need a serious rework... maybe a HERO 🦸 will show up and fix it?I heard there is floating datasheet around, so if someone will be brave enough, it shouldn't be that hard.There are at least two people who would be willing to give a guidance on getting there.DDIC is at least in Xiaomi:Poco F1 - tianma versionRedmi Note 7 - Shenchao panel#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #sdm845 #sdm660</a></li>
bshah: Running @kde @plasmamobile on the Mecha Comet prototype hardware.https://mecha.so/comet If all goes according to plan you will see this device at KDE booth at @fosdem running Plasma Mobile!#plasmamobile</a></li>
mntmn: qcs8550 displayport up yesss</a></li>
</ul>
Events</h4>

Phosh e.V.: Our next online community get together is in less than 🔟 days: https://ev.phosh.mobi/gettogether/ . Join us!#LinuxMobile #Phosh</a></li>
</ul>
Call for feedback super selfish!</em></h4>

@linmob: As I was working my upcoming #FOSDEM talk "The Linux Phone App Ecosystem" (https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VH3GYN-linu...), I thought should ask my followers.. So here we are: What do you want to know? Which projects do I have to mention? What should I focus on? Which apps do you enjoy the most? What are you missing? What are you worried about?</a></li>
@linmob: Open poll, please just reply (and mention your OS): What is your favorite #LinuxMobile app?</a></li>
</ul>
More Software News</h3>
Distributions</h4>

cas: "Coldbrew (formerly "iced") has been added to the Alpine package repos by @fossdd and will now be included in #postmarketOS duranium immutable images, allowing you to install and use anything from the Alpine package repos without modifying your real rootfs!It works on regular Alpine installs too of course, if you want to manage software per-user or without needing root accesshttps://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/coldbrew#LinuxMobile #immutable #alpinelinux https://social.treehouse.systems/users/cas/statuses/115775491821295297 "</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: postmarketOS Tweaks integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Thanks to @newbyte's efforts and @agx's reviewing, everything relevant from the "postmarketOS tweaks" app has been integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings so that we were able to sunset the legacy app in postmarketOS edge and have one less settings app in total! 🎉 As a bonus, Phosh Mobile Settings now has a generic conf-tweaks interface that can be used to add other custom settings with config files as well!Details in the edge post:https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/04/postmarketos-tweaks-replaced/#postmarketos #linuxmobile #phoshhttps://social.phosh.mobi/users/phosh/statuses/01KE52S074EH28WZR7K13EW0XT</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports issues: Clarify merge rules in the case of multiple maintainers</a></li>
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Using a phone as a server</a></li>
Phoronix: Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes</a></li>
</ul>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #231 Blueprint Maps</a></li>
Sebastian Wick: Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation</a></li>
Engagement Blog: GNOME ASIA 2025-Event Report</a></li>
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-01-09</a></li>
Phoronix: AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software</a></li>
</ul>
Phosh</h4>

Phosh Releases: Phosh 0.52.1</a>

phosh: For distros using recent #pipewire and #wireplumber: We've released #phosh 0.52.1 to fix a crash in gvc when switching to #bluetooth output: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.52.1/ #LinuxMobile #linux #mobile</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
Phosh Releases: Phosh 0.52.0</a></li>
jbz: ｢ Phosh (short for Phone Shell), a graphical user interface designed specifically for Linux-based mobile devices built on GNOME technologies and uses Wayland as its display protocol, has just released version 0.52 ｣ https://linuxiac.com/phosh-0-52-brings-qr-codes-for-wi-fi-hotspots/#phosh #wayland #linuxphone #opensource</a></li>
phosh: There's now a lock screen gesture in #phosh to change brightness. See this post for a demo: https://social.phosh.mobi/@phosh/statuses/01KC9P6S2PW182WPGTNFTHF1E92/x</a></li>
</ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: car of the year edition</a></li>
Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.22.0</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 25.12.1</a></li>
Volker Krause: 39C3</a></li>
Carl Schwan: Events in December 2025</a></li>
Planet KDE: KJournald Update January 2026</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme</a></li>
</ul>
Sxmo</h4>

#sxmo: The sxmo stickers have arrived and they fit perfectly with my Fairphone 4 slim case.#sxmo #postmarketos #linuxmobile #fairphone</a></li>
#sxmo: thanks for integrating @fizzo nightlight in sdm845-next!A feature i really use a lot on my #sxmo driven #linuxmobile.#sxmop6</a></li>
</ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 8th January 2026 - New Year</a>

frankps: The first Sailfish Community News of the year is out!Jolla and the Sailfish Community has been busy through the holidays, and we are getting closer and closer to the release of SailfishOS 5.1, and Jolla has given us a sneak peak of what is coming:- AppSupport Bluetooth support- AppSupport 13 (Android API level 33 compatibility) for all 64bit devicesAnd lots of 3rd party apps have been released or updated!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-8th-january-2026-new-year/26970@jolla #SailfishOS #LinuxMobile</a>. AppSupport Bluetooth Support sounds huge.</em></li>
</ul>
</li>
frankps: @jolla has just passed 7.000 preorders on their upcoming community phone!This is gonna be a great year for the Sailfish Community ❤️https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity #LinuxMobile</a></li>
adampigg: Looking for a micro sd card, i found that i have more micro->standard adapters than micro or standard cards combined</a></li>
sailfishOS news: Jolla at #FOSDEM 2026 (@fosdem) The event will take place during the weekend of 31 January and 1 February 2026 in Brussels. #Jolla can be found at the #Linux on Mobile stand and will organize once again a #SailfishOS meetup on Saturday evening. Infos will follow here: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/fosdem-2026-sailfish-os-meetup/Get the FOSDEM app for Sailfish OS: https://openrepos.net/content/flypig/fosdem-org</a></li>
#sailfishOS: @Natanox To get the best impression of what it's like to use a Sailfish OS smartphone, I would recommend getting a used Xperia 10 III first. It is the last Xperia model officially supported by #Jolla. With the Xperia 10V, there will still be slight hardware limitations. #sailfishOS  https://shop.jolla.com/details/12596a34-597b-47d4-a502-c0ef15d2a4de/ @aplanteatingant</a></li>
#sailfishOS: @Natanox About#SailfishOS: #Jolla is currently also doing a preorder of a new phone: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder</a></li>
</ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 181 call for questions.</a> Video linked above.</em></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Open store Stats 2025</a></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Morph Qt 6 in the OpenStore</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Clicking on the current active workspace in the Spread automatically closes the Spread</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Binding loop detected for property "temporarySelectedWorkspace"</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Use Super for dragging windows instead of Alt</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: [Qt 6] Fix warnings when built (QML module) against Qt 6 (Follow-up from "Port QML module to Qt 6")</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Workspace list in the Spread starts out in an angle</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Restoring window via double click on the titlebar puts it on the top-leftmost</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Broken Spread when switching workspace with keyboard then opening Spread with keyboard</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Mouse scroll only works on the first tab you scroll</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: [Qt 6] fix webapp container</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: [Qt 6] re-enable tests for Qt 5 builds (and optionally Qt 6 builds)</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: accounts-qml-module: Enable Qt 6 QML module build</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: I am creating a #Meshtastic app for #UbuntuTouch called Indra: https://git.agnos.is/projectmoon/indra/releases It is ready for alpha testing and needs people to help find issues with it before a minimum viable product can be released to the Ubuntu Touch #OpenStore. See the forum thread for more information!</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: @anon_4601 @ubuntu@ubuntu.social @ubuntu@lemmy.ml I installed #UbuntuTouch on my 5yo #lenovo tab M10 x65l. I'm happy it works but there are a few things to be done still.</a></li>
Phoronix: Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX</a></li>
</ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Emergency Alerts</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Duel!</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Web App Hub</a></li>
postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Magdesign: /* Gemini browsers */</a></li>
adampigg: Tweaking the UI of my #Subsonic media player for #SailfishOS and @kde Plasma for large screens, and the @volla tablet is pretty big for a mobile device :)</a></li>
schmiddionmobile: "I've now released version 0.18.0-beta.1 of Flare on flathub-beta. This release includes fixes for using Flare as a primary device, which I have done successfully for a while now. Feel free to test it out and provide feedback. Note that if you want to try it out, I would heavily encourage linking Signal-Desktop to Flare in order to set your profile information and to start new chats. Feel free to give feedback if you have any issues with this beta in the Matrix room or issue tracker."</a></li>
linuxphoneapps: "If you would like to have an #Instapaper client for #LinuxMobile, the creator of Cauldron ( https://flathub.org/en/apps/it.dottorblaster.cauldron ) is open to contributions that make Cauldron work well on narrow/mobile devices: https://github.com/dottorblaster/cauldron/issues/201#issuecomment-3710730745#LinuxPhoneApps #LinuxOnMobile"</a></li>
</ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: [PATCH v3] media: ccs: Accommodate C-PHY into the calculation</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: kodiak: Add missing clock votes for lpass_tlmm</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Add devicetree support for aw88261 amplifier driver & minor cleanup</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/2] Introduce Pixel config fragment for chainloading u-boot</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds</a></li>
Phoronix: Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026</a></li>
</ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support</a></li>
Phoronix: Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is NOT</em> Going To Be Solved With Documentation"</a></li>
Phoronix: Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware</a></li>
Phoronix: Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA</a></li>
Phoronix: Mesa 26.0 RADV Merges The Big Ray-Tracing Improvement For UE5 Lumen</a></li>
</ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-01-09</a></li>
Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-01-05</a></li>
</ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>