LINux on MOBile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (40/2026): Road to main

2026-10-04T15:41:28+00:00

postmarketOS is (still) Nura, with a new non-profit ASBL and a roadmap to daily-drivable mainline phones. Sailfish OS 5.2.0.18 ships for the Jolla Phone first, good news regarding Fairphone 5 call audio (at least on Catacomb), and more!

Collected on Sunday, October 4th 2026, 15:41 UTC and finished on the same day(ish). Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

Vivia's blog: Third day of using a Jolla phone
Nura Blog: The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
Nura Blog: The Nura Project ASBL
Nura Blog: Project rebrand: Nura
Purism: PureOS Development Report: August 2026

Worth Watching

Note: This video section is based on select feeds and fediverse accounts and thus very likely incomplete. See the "Personal Note" in 25/2026 for reasons - please help out and add relevant videos you enjoy to the pad.

Continuum Gaming: Live SFOS Update 5.2.0.18 (Continuum Gaming E542)
CodingBite: PostmarketOS is Now Nura! (What Changed?)
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 200
Snapp Technology: SailfishOS, LLMs, and general software engineering - Snapp Podcast
Snapp Technology: Exploring Sailfish OS Architecture
Tomás: One week with the Jolla 2026 phone as a cameraphone.
austriancoder: Some things are worth the wait. 🐢Tonight at #XDC2026 I gave a 5-minute lightning talk: "etnaviv: good things take time" - a look back at a year in which the Vivante GPU driver in Mesa finally reached two milestones that once felt very far away.A short thread 🧵 1/6#etnaviv #mesa3d Video link (live stream)

Worth Noting

Logical_Error: TIL of the #linuxmobile wikipedia pages. lots of stuff that i’ve never heard ofhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_mobile_deviceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phoneshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system
r/MobileLinux: Linux on Galaxy A20s
r/MobileLinux: That guy that was working on the Fairphone 6 stuff is apparently making a new distro
Purism community: State of Librem 5 in 2026
Purism community: Librem 5 benchmarks
Purism community: Videocalls on Librem 5?
Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Pixel 3a

Hardware (enablement)

More Software News

Distributions

Nura Blog: The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
- Lemmy - Nura: The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
- Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
Nura Blog: The Nura Project ASBL
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: The Nura Project ASBL
Nura Blog: Project rebrand: Nura
- Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: PostmarketOS renamed to Nura
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: PostmarketOS renamed to Nura
Breaking updates in Nura edge: System may not boot on kernels older than 7.2 with systemd 262
Nura pmaports Merge Requests: gnome-shell-mobile: Add OSK paste button
Nura Wiki New Pages: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 3
- Lemmy - Nura: Nura booting on Kindle Paperwhite 3
Nura mobile-config-firefox tags: 5.5.0
- @linmob@linuxmobile.social: mobile-config-firefox, Firefox 157
Mobian Wiki: Mobian
DanctNIX (Mastodon): Intro is now available on Demozoo:https://demozoo.org/productions/398135/Thanks @alpinelinux and @nura for a great conference!#postmarketOSandAlpineLinuxConference2026 #NuraAndAlpineLinuxConference2026
DanctNIX (Mastodon): Well, that aged like milk. @nura
FuriLabs: Ai Vision Conference Keynote Panel Oct 2026. Oof.
agx: "Phosh's BengalOS booting on a SHIFT8. Thanks to the #Linux #sc7280 maintainers for their work! That's the first device booting on BengalOS that is still available for sale (and will be for some time). There's plenty of stuff missing on the kernel side to make that usable, but it's a start.#LinuxMobile #Linux #mobile #Phosh #BengalOS"

Apps

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #268 Improved Agenda
Arun Raghavan: On LLMs and free software
Hans de Goede: Snapdragon X1 laptops improvements in Fedora 45
Hans de Goede: Snapdragon X1 laptop kernel COPR for Fedora 45
Michael Catanzaro: The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

Phosh

Ubuntu Touch

Maemo Leste

#MaemoLeste: I took my Nokia #N900 from the drawer and put latest #Maemo #Leste on sdcard. It has some quirks to overcome at start, but it works quite fine. I've bought a new replacement battery, so it now keeps running for a long time.I installed wireguard on it and can use SSH to log in to my devices. The dillo browser is not able to render websites correctly, but also it's amazing when it shows only relevant parts and cuts all the crap. Email is timeless, so it just works. Syncevolution is unfortunately currently broken (can't install; broken dependencies).A real pocket computer. It has aged like a fine wine #maemoleste. The N900 was introduced in 2009, about 17 years ago.

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH 0/4] power: supply: qcom_smbx: report charger state changes
phone-devel: [PATCH] power: supply: qcom_smbx: set the charge enable after software control
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Tighten compatible matching for himax,hx83112{a,b}
phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/4] Add Novatek NT37705 panel driver for Fairphone (Gen. 6)
Phoronix: Linux Patches Show Promising Results For Lower Latency Of Short Slice Tasks
Phoronix: Linux 7.4 To Support The Raspberry Pi 10-Inch Touch Display 2
Phoronix: Linux 7.3 To Better Support The High-End Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race
Phoronix: Linux 7.4 To Introduce Initial Device Trees For Apple M4, A18 Pro For MacBook Neo

Stack

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-10-02

Thanks

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (39/2026): Raider → Twix

2026-09-27T16:29:25+00:00

postmarketOS is now Nura, Sailfish OS gets RAW camera support and more, WebKitGTK improvements, and a lot more. Enjoy!

Collected on Sunday, September 27th 2026, 16:29 UTC and finished on the same day(ish). Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

postmarketOS Blog: Project rebrand: Nura
Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, September 25, 2026 - RAWfish
Drew DeVaults blog: Why is Hacker News like that?
Neil Brown: On Free software project boards and governance
bkovac: Converting a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device

Worth Listening

kodsnack: In this week's Kodsnack: @poetaster discusses making apps for Sailfish OS and Jolla phones.https://kodsnack.se/721#podcast #sailfishOs #jolla

Worth Watching

Continuum Gaming: Sail Cycle – Health app for tracking menstrual cycles (Continuum Gaming E541)
Knievelcat: How-To: Mainline Linux auf dein Handy porten in German
PhoshMobi: Phosh's Screenshot Notification

Worth Noting

Own Your Phone (European Citizens' Initiative): effort to facilitate extension of Right to Repair Directive also onto software. (If you would like to help spread, it is for example possible to translate - as it is call for action specifically for EU law, relevant languages are these - all languages matters, regardless of percentage). Contribution by an anonymous contributor.
pi_crew: Just managed to do my first digital payment on a #postmarketOS Linux smartphone 🤩Thanks to @AlexLArmstrong on GitHub for providing hacks doing #Libcamera passthru to #Wayland. After that my @glsbank #WERO app was able to do the transaction!
hugoposnic: BengalOS #linuxmobile distribution from @phosh now listed on https://linux-mobile.com/stack/ I've tried to start an honest list of current blockers in the #LinuxMobile ecosystem.Here's the initial page: https://linux-mobile.com/blockers/Do you see other things to list inside?Don't hesitate to contribute here: https://codeberg.org/hugoposnic/linux-mobile/src/branch/main/src/blockers.njk
bradlinder: "The Steam Frame VR headset may be one of the most repairable on the market. The battery is held in place by adhesive, but it's fairly easy to remove. Lenses, displays, straps, and other hardware can also be removed. But the fan harder to clean than it could be. https://www.ifixit.com/News/119488/steam-frame-teardown-were-fans-except-of-the-fan #SteamFrame #iFixit"
axx: Has anyone made a child friendly device using #postmarketos ? Ie: no login process, only shows a limited number of curated apps, ideally can only go from showing app menu to one of the apps and back.The #Phosh interface and experience looks more complicated than I was hoping for.

Hardware (enablement)

More Software News

Distributions

postmarketOS Blog: Project rebrand: Nura. I am just glad it's not TetrOS or Evergreen/Evergiven or something like that ;-) Also, when I watched the reveal on the conference livestream, people seemed super excited.
postmarketOS (Mastodon): The first day of the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference went really well! The talks were awesome, there were good discussions and the food was great.Let's get on with a great second day!Photos by Katja de Waart#postmarketOSandAlpineLinuxConference2026
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Day 2 is starting!! #postmarketosandAlpineLinuxConference2026 Live stream: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/pmosc/5053-2
postmarketOS (Mastodon): Can you daily-drive postmarketOS? by @allpurposemat"This talk will cover the positives and negatives of fully committing to running Linux in my pocket for the past year. Notably, I'll recount:following the development process of audio on the Fairphone 5, from a user's point of viewtraveling with pmOSnotes UI-hopping between GNOME, Phosh, and KDEvarious fun tidbits (and scares) throughoutI'll then finish by going over a couple small projects/fixes I dabbled in, showing how you can easily contribute anywhere in the ecosystem where you see an improvement.And, of course, most importantly... will I go back to Android? (no!!)"
postmarketOS pmaports issues: Typing messages in Chat application broken

Apps

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #267 A New Era
Carlos Garcia Campos: Skia compositor for WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK- Jordan Petridis: The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want
Juan Pablo Ugarte: Casilda 1.6 Released!
Diego Escalante Urrelo: LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs
Jordan Petridis: Introducing Toolpak
Phoronix: Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Akademy Special
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Release
anditosan: Akademy 2026 – A Recap
lprod: KDE Akademy 2026
Nate Graham: KDE and AI, and you, and me
dvratil: Akademy 2026
tsdgeos: Help testing future Okular (if you use PDF files with embedded Audio or Video)
Nate Graham: How I write documentation
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes

Sxmo

#sxmo: @hugoposnic IMHO, Sxmo deserves to be listed as "Desktop Environment" at https://linux-mobile.com/stack.#Sxmo#LinuxMobile

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Kernel

Stack

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-09-25

Thanks

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (38/2026): Two Releases and a Conference

2026-09-20T18:36:34+00:00

Maemo Leste's 2026 "Excalibur" released, GNOME 51 including Libadwaita 1.10, too; with KDE Akademy currently happening. Sailfish OS 5.2 is nearly ready, good news with regard to the Pixel 9a, and more!

Collected on Sunday, September 20th 2026, 10:36 UTC and finished on the same day. Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

FuriLabs: Vulkan Cross-Platform 3D Graphics
FuriLabs: Face Unlock Arrives on FuriOS for the FLX Range
Maemo Leste: Maemo Leste - 2026 Excalibur release. Impressive!
GamingOnLinux: Lepton from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Lepton from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source
Knievelcat at Datenspuren 2026: How-To: Mainline Linux auf dein Handy porten. German.
LINux on MOBile: MCF20: Flatpak support, sorta, kinda

Worth Watching

Worth Noting

turbobob: "RE: https://mastodon.social/@aboutsignal/117280361670776781 Coming at last? Hopefully."Signal Desktop currently has no standalone registration process, but Signal is working on making Desktop available as a primary, standalone device."— https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/Signal without requiring an iOS or Android smartphone would indeed be a much welcome development!@signalapp #Signal #Linux #LinuxPhone #PC #Desktop #UserFreedom #Privacy #PostmarketOS #PinePhone #Librem5"
r/MobileLinux: NixOS on Google Pixel 4
r/MobileLinux: Nothing phone 1 Spacewar (another update)
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Are there any small linux phones?. No, not really, also because there are so few new phones that deserve to be called small. The smallest post 2010 devices I have are the Droid 4 (no LTE IIRC), and the rabbit r1 (not really a phone). That aside, there's appears to be only niche stuff that's either Mediatek or quite pricey, like the Qualcomm SM 4450 powered Light Phone III.

Hardware (enablement)

Events

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #266 Fifty One!
Planet GNOME: Aryan Kaushik: GUADEC 2026 Experience
Michael Catanzaro: Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in NetworkManager Plugins
Carlos Garnacho: On mobile and peer pressure
Jakub Steiner: GNOME 51 Wallpapers
Alice Mikhaylenko: Libadwaita 1.10
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, September 2026
Jakub Steiner: Building Flatpaks Locally
Phoronix: GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Maemo Leste

Maemo Leste: Maemo Leste - 2026 Excalibur release. Impressive! And... how was that post not get collected when it was new? Or is the date just misleading?
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Maemo Leste - 2026 Excalibur release

Apps

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Charon
UndeadLeech: "Charon 1.10.0 brings several significant changes, some highlights including: - Travel speed indicator - Map rotation - Prioritization of area in the direction of travelFull Changelog:https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/charon/refs/v1.10.0#linuxmobile #catacomb #maps"
etbe – Russell Coker: Nheko DBUS
CoMaps: "@janvlug There aren't concrete plans for that currently - having some active Mobile Linux developers is probably the main bottleneck. One of the talk presenters recently got a Linux phone, but I think it would need more people.In other words, we're not intentionally not improving it but would need some more folks interested & able to work on that!". IMHO, a few small fixes to the Qt-based desktop client and it's dialogues (e.g., reordering the buttons in the one that pops up when you tap something) would go a long way - but then I use CoMaps Desktop on mobile in the state it is to look at local maps, so ... maybe I am just not the sane person to ask here.

Kernel

Stack

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-09-18

Thanks

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MCF20: Flatpak support, sorta, kinda

2026-09-16T00:50:04+00:00

It's weird, despite being a father now, I still manage to find time for mobile-config-firefox (m-c-f); fixing annoyances and sometimes even issues other people have.

Recently, I added flatpak support. Thankfully, there was prior art: PocketBlue, the immutable Fedora-based OS for phones, did some work in that direction, in not one, but two projects:

firefox-systemconfig, a flatpak that adds mobile-config-firefox to a Firefox flatpak,
handyfox, a flatpak bundling Firefox with mobile-config-firefox and even more.

This first approach is what has now been added to mobile-config-firefox. For that I had to make one change, and then added two others, to make installing slightly more convenient.

Changing mobile-config-autoconfig.js - I am sure that there are smarter ways to implement this, but this is what I managed to come up with,
Changing the Makefile and install/uninstall scripts,
Adding a flatpak manifest.

... and, of course, documentation.

Limitations and Use case

What's important to note: This implementation ONLY works with the Firefox flatpak. It also can't be put on Flathub, just look at the appid that manifest has.

But: It's a way for those on immutable phone distributions that want or need something newer than Firefox ESR on their phone, or want to use Firefox on postmarketOS Duranium with Plasma Mobile, which does not ship Firefox, only Angelfish.

It's also helpful for further development, if you are on postmarketOS - Alpine usually does not ship the latest release on day one, while the flatpak is available quickly.

But Librewolf?

Honestly, it's hard. The Librewolf flatpak is not extensible, as the Firefox flatpak is, so ... there's no way to make this work easily with the available flatpak. While the necessary change is just adding a few additional lines to the manifest, I'll leave the upstreaming of that - and the necessary additional changes to mobile-config-firefox - to someone else who actually likes and uses Librewolf and is up for testing (and fixing) m-c-f with Librewolf. I wasn't happy how m-c-f Librewolf support in postmarketOS was added through packaging alone without much consultation; while the additional maintenance burden has been manageable, this is my silent revenge if you will. ;-)

Next steps

What's next for me? Well, mostly fixing things. There's always something else broken, and customizations need to be adjusted to keep up with Firefox. If Firefox Beta 157 is a valid indicator, the Nova redesign is going to land with 157. While I don't like the new look (it's just too round, IMHO), I'll see if I can find the time to make it just visually different without being too broken on mobile. (To be clear: I was not planning to work on Nova, and I would love it if another contributor (maybe you, dear reader?) would show up and take Nova on, but it feels like I'll have to take care of this. Please prove me wrong, the first step would be installing Firefox beta from Mozilla's debian repo (on Debian or in a distrobox), the second would be to join the mobile-config-firefox Matrix room to get in touch.)

Also, there's some housekeeping coming up: Once 153.* ESR replaces 140.* ESR in Alpine and/or Debian, we will need to rotate old customizations that no longer apply out to keep things lean and maintainable. Likely too boring to blog about.

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (37/2026): September Lull

2026-09-13T08:58:28+00:00

German emergency alerts working on Phosh, work on a significant Gecko engine for the Sailfish OS browser, etnaviv progress, and more!

Collected on Sunday, September 13th 2026, 8:58 UTC and finished on the same day. Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Phosh.mobi @ Mini Debconf Winterthur 2026
The Official Jolla Blog: Change on Jolla Phone memory configurations going forward
Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, September 10, 2026 - Symbiosis. The biggest development IMHO is the perpective for the browser to move the recently released Firefox 153 ESR, which is not even yet in Alpine or Debian.
This Week in GNOME: #265 New Commitments

Worth Watching

Continuum Gaming: Local Data Transfer with Sailfish OS (Continuum Gaming E539)
orailnoor: I Built My Own Linux Phone — And You Can Too. Built ... in software.
Switch and Click: I Replaced my iPhone with Linux. Here's What Happened.. Maybe pick a device that has more green checkboxes on the wiki next time…

Worth Noting

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #265 New Commitments
vixalien: Project Final Report: Adding Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS
Georges Basile Stavracas Neto: What’s New in Calendar 51: Prologue
Matthias Klumpp: JPEG-XL as default in AppStream, and better media processing
Felipe Borges: Wrapping up Google Summer of Code 2026 with GNOME!
Phoronix: GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock
Phoronix: GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: 6.8 Beta Release!
KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 26.08.1
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Release
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.30.0
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.7.5, Bugfix Release for September
Nuno Icons: I just want us to feel something…
merritt.codes: Updates for Plasma Software Engineer & plasma-keyboard
Nate Graham: Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview. Koko!
Anders Lund: Big thanks goes to @carl, whose code I copied (and adapted a wee bit).#pumoku #plasmaMobile #kde
LibreNews: Announcing Plasma Studio

Catacomb

UndeadLeech: "Finally switched over to wvkbd on my daily driver phone and while it took me a couple patches to get it working properly, it turned out pretty nice (and was pretty easy to patch).Realized that a nice benefit of just using pkill to toggle between on/off/auto for the virtual keyboard is that if my keyboard crashes, I can cycle through these modes to get it back.Going to test it for a while, maybe tweak the layout a bit, then ship it as a default for #catacomb.#linuxmobile #sxmo"

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

UBports Forums OS: [DRAFT 26.04.1.x]: New contact/calendar/alarm backend
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: lomiri-session.in: Prevent Qt6 applications (such as Morph-Qt6 and QWE/Qt6)...
#UbuntuTouch: Some progress on Seabass3 for #ubuntutouch. Both phone and tablet layouts are taking shape, and there is now a vertical tab list for mobile devices.(Performance in the video is heavily affected by screencasting, but hopefully it still gives an idea of what to expect from the UI)
Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Ubuntu Touch on Pixel 5 with VoLTE

Distributions

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-08: Conferences
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2026-08: Conferences
News for developers of postmarketOS: Userspace pd-mapper removed
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Merging sbin into bin
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Dropping x86 from postmarketOS
postmarketOS: "Turns out we don't have any postmarketOS device port for x86 except in the archived category, and therefore we don't have any users on this architecture. So we are now dropping x86 (not x86_64!) from postmarketOS edge to save some build times. It never was in a stable version.https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/09/10/Dropping-x86-from-postmarketOS/"
postmarketOS pmaports issues: Switch default camera application
Pine64-Arch: Arch Linux ARM / Ports - 2026/09/04

Apps

Kernel

Stack

Phoronix: Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
Phoronix: GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
Phoronix: X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
Phoronix: GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
Phoronix: COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-09-11

Thanks

Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (36/2026): Pixel 3 calling

2026-09-06T00:33:47+00:00

A bunch of hardware enablement news, progress on the Commodore Callback and dawndrums Divine D, the schedule of the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference and more!

Collected on Sunday, September 6th 2026, 00:33 UTC and finished haphazardly (in multiple chunks) on the same day. Commentary in italics. Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

postmarketOS blog: postmarketOS // in 2026-08: Conferences
Purism: PureOS Development Report: July 2026
Ploum: I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
Neil Brown: My views on genAI and F-Droid

Worth Watching

Continuum Gaming: Sailfish OS: How to Ad Block (Continuum Gaming E538)
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 198
sunweaver at MiniDebConf Winterthur: Debian Edu goes Lomiri - Tablets for Education in the Free World

Worth Noting

Events

openSUSE News: Mobile Linux Hackday #8: Record Turnout in SUSE's New Prague Office
postmarketOS (Mastodon): We are excited to have great speakers and a broad spectrum of topics for the upcoming postmarketOS and @alpinelinux conference! 😀The schedule is now live: https://pretalx.postmarketos.org/postmarketos-conference-2026/schedule/Matrix and IRC:#conference:postmarketos.org#postmarketos-conference on OFTC IRCMore information: https://postmarketos.org/conference/ These schedules are also available in KDE's Kongress app and Giggity for Android for easy viewing.#kde #kongress #giggity. Great schedule, hope I can make it - will figure this out ASAP so that I am not blocking someone else from attending. Update, Sept. 19th, 2026: I decided on 9/11 that I will not go and cancelled my ticket, hope it helps someone else!
ifreund: I'll be giving a talk at the #postmarketOS conference coming up soon! https://pretalx.postmarketos.org/postmarketos-conference-2026/talk/XYZ383/

Hardware (enablement)

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #264 Version Picking
Felipe Borges: Modernizing Fingerprint Management in GNOME Settings
Michael Catanzaro: Don’t Forget: Unset Confidentiality on Private Issue Reports
Felipe Borges: Call for Mentors for Outreachy (Dec 2026)
Peter Eisenmann: Fellowship Report August 2026 (Rivendell)
Sophie Herold: GNOME Fellowship August 2026
Sophie Herold: Introduction of GNOME RFC Process: Start of Final Comment Period
Phoronix: GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
Volker Krause: State of the Map 2026
Nate Graham: Bug triaging help needed
Nate Graham and John Veness: This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026
tintotint: KDE Connect redesign is ready for testing
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

UBports Forums OS: Call for testing: UBports Installer update
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 198 call for questions
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Q&A 197 Blog and Audio now available
fredldotme: "Flashing my Fairphone 5, an Ubuntu Touch device,from my JingPad, also an Ubuntu Touch device.This is fun and functional. :)"
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Add Halium 15+ detection, host HAL fragment and host binder patches
#UbuntuTouch: With #UbuntuTouch on Lenovo Tab M8 with google maps in morph browser I actually get the "Layers" button that can enable the 3D Globe view. Google usually doesn't want you to have that in a mobile browser because... actually I have no idea why.
#UbuntuTouch: Just got my first mobile device migrated from Android to Ubuntu Touch.I was expecting this Sunday project to take a few hours, but it didn't take even one. 👏 👏 Let's see what it has to offer and how it holds up in the coming weeks.#ubuntu #ubuntutouch #mobile #mobileos #alternatives

MarathonShell

Release v1.0.0-r362 · patrickjquinn/Marathon-Shell

Distributions

Apps

Purism community: has anyone run bluebubbles on the librem 5
anderslund: A small step for ... Pumoku at the #OP6T, and build on the very same device ❤️ Building went suprisingly swift, what took time was installing build dependencies, and finding courage in the first place ...If anyone is interrested, I could produce a tar archieve or stlt.#postmarketOS #pumoku #sudoku #plasmaMobile Posted using #tokodon on that same device too
nekohayo: I've been looking for a #WiFi networks channels analyzer app for the #Linux desktop, like those found on F-Droid (such as WiFiAnalyzer), and couldn't find one on Flathub.Then, searching more broadly, I discovered that Daniel Nylander, oldtime Swedish translator in #GNOME, has built exactly such an app in recent months, in #Python + GTK4 + libadwaita!I tried it out (just do "cd src/ && python app.py"), it works well.Flatpak enthusiasts, see https://github.com/yeager/wifi-analyzer/issues/2#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
webbeef: "Trying a new design for Beaver's homescreen: a scrolling page with sections you can re-order, and a fixed header (dubbed the canopy) that gets smaller when you scroll up. Feel very webby, not just a boring icon grid.Still WIP (no way to add / remove content yet...) but I think I like it!"
T. H. Wright: Paraphrase. Anonymous Contributor writes: A Christian prayer requests tracking app designed to fill this part of the mobile app gap. It is programmed in Python/PySide6.

Kernel

phone-devel: Re: (subset) [PATCH 0/4] Add supply names for PM6350 RPMh regulators on Fairphone 4
phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/4] sdm845: Configure USB3/DP combo properly
phone-devel: [PATCH RFC v2 0/6] Speakers for Pixel 3 / 3 XL
phone-devel: Re: (subset) [PATCH 0/3] NFC fixes for Pixel 3 / 3 XL and support for Pixel 3a / 3a XL
phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/2] wcd934x fixes
phone-devel: [PATCH v2] mfd: wcd934x: set DMA mask on parent to silence "DMA mask not set"
Phoronix: Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo

Stack

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-09-04

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (35/2026): Funded Flatpaks

2026-08-29T20:33:21+00:00

Camera support progress on the Shift6mq and Pixel 9a, The Sovereign Tech Agency announcing a major investment in Flatpak. The Jolla Phone has passed 15,000 preorders with 2,500 units already delivered, and gets an OS update with Sailfish OS 5.2.0.17. Also: independent volume control for media, notifications and calls landing in postmarketOS Phosh... and more!

Collected on Saturday, August 29th 2026, 20:33 UTC and finished haphazardly (in multiple chunks) on Sunday, August 30th. Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

bjoreman: Jolla phone, day 1
Modal: Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak

Worth Watching

agx at MiniDebConf Winterthur: 🐅 The Phosh BengalOS Roadshow 🐅 lq Schedule
Luca Weiss: FOSDEM 2026 - Mainline kernel for Fairphones - 2026 update
Continuum Gaming: Getting started with the Jolla Phone 2026 (Continuum Gaming E536)

Worth Noting

Events

Hardware enablement

More Software News

Distributions

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #263 Reset Recovering
Philip Withnall: Flatpak repository key rotation
Matthias Klumpp: Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Freedesktop Tasks
vixalien: Adding Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS
Michael Catanzaro: Change in Timeline to “Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking”
Sebastian Wick: Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
Phoronix: GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: QtWidgets Apps Join the Union
Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: UI and Performance Improvements
jbb: Tickets in Transitous

Sxmo

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

i#### Apps

Kernel

Phoronix: Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support
Phoronix: Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance
Phoronix: Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices
Phoronix: AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies
phone-devel: [PATCH] media: i2c: imx258: Add reset-gpio support
phone-devel: [PATCH] mfd: Fix MAX77705 dependency on regmap
phone-devel: [PATCH] mfd: wcd934x: set DMA mask on parent to silence "DMA mask not set"
phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/3] Enable DW9714V camera focus coils on SHIFT 6MQ
phone-devel: [PATCH] clk: qcom: camcc-sdm845/670: Raise CSIPHY timer clock limit

Stack

Phoronix: Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak
etbe – Russell Coker: Links August 2026
Phoronix: The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
Phoronix: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released With Initial Collection Of Fixes

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-08-28

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (34/2026): Amazing Progress

2026-08-22T21:09:43+00:00

A huge week for Fairphone 6 mainline kernel hardware enablement: first the main camera, then all three cameras, then audio — and VoLTE emergency calling has been tested end-to-end. Also: Phosh 0.57.0 is out, Sailfish OS gets a 5.2 Jolla Phone update, Tuba 0.11.0 ships UnifiedPush support, and someone is running Minecraft at a stable 25fps on a OnePlus 8T with postmarketOS.

Collected on Saturday, August 22th 2026, 21:09 UTC and finished (in multiple chunks) on Sunday, August 23rd. So happy Fairphone have dropped the ball with the Gen. 6 USB situation (no DP alt mode, 2.0 speeds and not undone that for the 6+)... otherwise I would have been financially irresponsible and ordered yet another phone I don't really need.

Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

FuriLabs: Guest Blog Post: A phone for the non-tech enthusiast

Worth Watching

Phosh.mobi: What's new in Phosh 0.57?
Luca Weiss: Open Source Summit Japan 2025 - We need an open-source phone OS - postmarketOS!. _Now with subtitles
Continuum Gaming: Jolla Phone 2026: Apply the screen protector (Continuum Gaming E535)
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 197. Just Marius.

Worth Noting

Hardware (enablement)

Fairphone 6

TheMightyCat: Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera!
- Related discussion on: Lemmy, r/mobilelinux, r/fairphone, HackerNews
Rapid progress on bringing FP6 to linux
nmcmildotcom: Camera working (ish) on the Fairphone 6 running Linux. Wide and telephoto. Linux = Fedora.
nmcmildotcom: All 3 cameras working on the Fairphone 6 running Linux
Catcrafts: imsd 112 emergency calling end to end tested successfully! (Linux phone VoLTE)
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Audio now working on the Fairphone 6 running Linux
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: All 3 cameras working on the Fairphone 6 running Linux
- r/MobileLinux: All 3 cameras now working on Fairphone 6 running Linux

Pixel 9a

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

Engagement Team: Engagement team introduction blog post
Tobias Bernard: GUADEC 2026 in A Coruña
Christian Hergert: Recent Developments Part III
Felipe Borges: Decoupling Boxes from the OS Release Cycle

Phosh

Phosh Releases: Phosh 0.57.0
Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Phosh.mobi @ FrOSCon 2026

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
KDE Announcements: KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08
Volker Krause: NFC Integration for Plasma Mobile. In case you missed this last week, good enough to have this twice.
roshani: Final week: Wrapping Up My GSoC Journey
bharadwajratu: Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE

Sxmo

#sxmo: In der aktuellen Podcast-Folge reden Ralf und ich über Linux Mobile und die FrOSCon:https://gnulinux.ch/ciw192-podcast#linux #linuxmobile #postmarketOS #froscon #podcast #stamp #sxmo #catacomb. Worth listening if you understand German.
#sxmo: @meshy using meshy on my #p3a under #postmarketos / #sxmo ... Worked like a charm from the first versions !

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Distributions

Apps

Kernel

Releases

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-08-21

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (33/2026): NFC in Plasma

2026-08-15T20:38:22+00:00

NFC integration is landing in Plasma Mobile, and Bazaar has been accepted into GNOME Circle, an official Signal Desktop ARM64 beta (.deb + AppImage only). On the hardware side, Dawndrums has received the Divine D MainPCB Rev. 1.1 and is sharing early DawnOS test results, mainlining progress on other (used) devices and more!

Collected on Saturday, August 15th 2026, 20:38 UTC and finished (in multiple chunks) on Sunday, August 16th.

Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

Volker Krause: NFC Integration for Plasma Mobile
runarcn.no: Reconsidering SailfishOS as my daily driver
mattp: Daily driving postmarketOS (Summer 2026)
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Daily driving postmarketOS (Summer 2026)
Moses Izumi: Lamenting the demise of Keyboard Phones. Still missing my HTC Dream over here.

Worth Listening

Tech Over Tea: #338 The State Of Pine64 | Camden

Worth Watching

Continuum Gaming: The Jolla Phone 2026 – Unboxing Phone & Accesories (Continuum Gaming E534)
Continuum Gaming: Advanced Camera - The better camera app for your Sailfish OS Device (Continuum Gaming E533)
Jolla: Jolla Phone - Official CTO dust test
Luca Weiss: Automated testing of a phone operating system
Daniel Kulesz: DigiZiege - A Progressive Web App for Goat Farmers
Daniel Gultsch: Push-Benachrichtigungen. Dezentral und OpenSource
Marvin W: App-Kompatibilität für alle
Linux Nation: 4 Jahre kein Support: Rettet Linux das OnePlus 6?

Worth Noting

Hardware (enablement)

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #262 Minor Major Update
GNOME Shell & Mutter: GNOME Shell Design Dreams
Hylke Bons: NLnet funds SparkleShare. No idea if the re-write is going to be adaptive, but if it was, that would be seriously cool.
Laureen Caliman: Vocab-style Crosswords Update | Final Stretch
Peter Eisenmann: Fellowship Report July 2026 (The Shire)
Philipp Sauberzweig: Fellowship Update, 2026-08-13
Ivan Molodetskikh: Easy Sandboxing on Linux with Bubblewrap

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: UI Improvements Galore
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.29.0
Roshani's KDE & GSoC Blog: Weeks 9 & 10: Multi-Select and Mobile Selection Mode. About KeepSecret.
Nate Graham: Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens
Volker Krause: NFC Integration for Plasma Mobile
Nuno-Icons: About time…

Maui Project

Nitrux: A Modern Desktop: The Workspace Envrionment
- Linuxiac: Nitrux Linux Unveils New Workspace Environment Built Around Hyprland
Nitrux: Over the past months, we’ve been dropping hints about what we’ve been working on: Valenz, Marina, Workspace Settings.Presenting the new concept for Nitrux: The Workspace Environment.Read More: https://nxos.org/news/a-modern-desktop-the-workspace-envrionment/#Nitrux #Workspace #Linux #News. Quite sad to see the death of Maui Shell for a pivot to that particular tiling WM; I suppose this is the last Maui Project section for a while.

Sxmo

Catacombing

UndeadLeech: I have been avoiding the flashlight on my Fairphone 5, since it seemed pretty bright at max brightness, thereby possibly burning out pretty quickly over extended use.With Epitaph 1.4.0, I've finally gotten around to fixing that, by changing the flashlight from a button to a slider.https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/epitaph/refs/v1.4.0#linuxmobile #catacomb #fairphone

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Froscon Aug 15th and 16th Germany
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Today is Q&A Day
UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Add Guix paths to writable-paths
#UbuntuTouch: @Tutanota Hopefully this will encourage at least a few prople on to #postmarketOS and #UbuntuTouch - never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake, I say.

Distributions

Lemmy - postmarketOS: run postmarket on a 2016 galaxy A5
postmarketOS pmaports issues: Add last 2 mobile-config-* packages
postmarketOS pmaports issues: Phosh: add user service for better UI  responsiveness [systemd] [uclamp]

Apps

Kernel

phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] usb: typec: Add support for Parade PS5169 USB Type-C redriver
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH] wifi: rsi: Fix types to appease CFI
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: display: panel: Add bindings for Novatek NT37703
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Samsung Expressatt: Camera Flash
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: display: panel: Add bindings for Novatek NT37703
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: usb: Add Parade PS5169 redriver bindings
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 1/4] media: dt-bindings: dongwoon,dw9714: Example shouldn't imply 1.8 V

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-08-14

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (32/2026): Sensor Bonanza

2026-08-08T18:51:44+00:00

A postmarketOS July update, Fairphone 6 "sensor bonanza", Jolla Phone batch deliveries continue with people sharing first impressions of Sailfish OS 5.2, non-adaptive apps are now hidden in Phosh by default on pmOS edge, and more!

Collected on Saturday, August 8th 2026, 18:51 UTC and finished (in multiple tiny chunks) on Sunday, August 9th. Commentary in italics.