LINux on MOBile

What's new with Linux Phones? A new Maui apps release, a Nemo Mobile progress report, Jolla releases Sailfish OS 4.3.0, postmarketOS 21.06 Service Pack 4, Kupfer and more! Commentary in italics.

Software releases

• Numberstation 1.0.0 has been released, adding HOTP support and thus being "feature complete"! Amazing!
• postmarketOS have released the fourth and last service pack release for their 21.06 stable branch, delivering multiple important improvements for usability (Phosh 0.14) and telephony (eg25-manager 0.4.1).
• Manjaro have released Phosh Beta 18, featuring a few new releases and more polish – an updated changelog post has not yet been posted to Manjaro's forums.
• Sailfish OS 4.3.0 "Suomenlinna" has been released. No longer for Early Access users!

Worth noting

• Martijn Braam made a nice postmarketOS Cheatsheet.
• Work on enabling suspend for better battery life for the Librem 5 has started!
• Mobian have shifted from nightly to weekly images.

Worth reading

Distros

• TuxPhones: Kupfer is a postmarketOS-like Arch Linux spin for phones. I came across this, but DDG did not feature any useful results - thanks for posting this!

• TuxPhones: postmarketOS + mainline for the OnePlus 5/5T!. Great post by Caleb!

Software progress

• Phoronix: Linux 5.16 Arm SoC Changes Bring-Up The Snapdragon 690, Other Hardware.
• This Week in GNOME: #17 Hourly Backups.
• MauiKit.org: Maui 2.1.0 Release. Great progress!
• Claudio Cambra: Kalendar is out! — Kalendar devlog 21

PinePhone Pro development progress

• xnux.eu log: Pinephone Pro – USB, Type-C, OTG, DP-Alt mode, Charger,….
• xnux.eu log: Pinephone Pro – USB, Type-C, OTG, DP-Alt mode, Charger,… – some success :). Megi is making progress with regards to PinePhone Pro development!

Nemo Mobile

• Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile in November/2021

Other Roundups

• Liliputing: Linux Smartphone News Roundup: New postmarketOS, Manjaro, Nemo, and Sailfish OS builds, Phosh 0.14, and more. Great round-up by Brad!

Worth listening

• Cyberdeck Users Weekly: Linux on mobile with linmob. Thanks again Paul for having me! Apologies for getting a few things wrong early in the morning and being a bit slow – I normally don't confuse libhybris and halium. I hope you like it anyway!

Worth watching

Tutorials

• Avisando: PinePhone - How to update Manjaro Phosh without PC or data loss. If you ever needed a guide for Pamac, this is it!

PinePhone Pro Progress

• sadfwesv: i3wm on Pinephone Pro in convergence mode (output to external display).

Software Defined Radio

• cemaxecutor: DragonOS Focal w/ PinePhone + SparrowWiFi Wireless Survey (DragonPhone, HackRF, Ubertooth).

Ubuntu Touch

• CyberPunked: Ubuntu Touch - OnePlus 6 / enchilada (2021-01-07). Nice!

JingPad

• PizzaLovingNerd: JingPad Initial Impressions - The Linux iPad.

Shorts

• NOT A FBI Honey pot: Linux user .....finally got the camera working on the #pinephone.
• NOT A FBI Honey pot: Linux user gets bored so he installed mobian......
• Сергей Чуплыгин: Volume control directly pulseaudio without nemo modules. Nice Nemo Mobile progress!

If you are really bored ...

• Twinntech: Librem 5. It's a rough watch. You've been warned!

Stuff I did

Content

• I finally managed to finish that setup post!
• I also updated that scaling post.

Random

• Void Linux is not as fun as I hoped it to be, especially not with musl.

LINMOBapps and Linux Phone Apps

Activity has continued on the low level it reached last week. Cuperino added one app,

• QPrompt, a teleprompter software. Thanks for the Merge Request!

Read here what (else) happened on LINMOBapps this week. And please do contribute!