LINux on MOBile

It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?

Sxmo on Arch Linux ARM, UBports OTA 16, Libhandy 1.2 and more! Commentary in italics.

Software development and releases

• Kongress 1.0.1 is available. Just a bug fix release.
• AudioTube, a new app to play Music from YouTube, has been announced.
• GNOME Podcasts 0.4.9 has been released.
• Libhandy 1.2 has been released.
• The Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Changelog has been published on the UBports forums. This is an impressive change log. Please note that the usual OTA schedule does not apply to the PinePhone.
• sxmo-alarm, a script to get Sxmo running on Arch Linux ARM, has been released.

Worth noting

• /u/ilovelinuxporn: Wine x86 running at near-native speeds without qemu! (Tutorial coming soon). This is something to watch.
• /u/Moxvallix: A list of PinePhone compatible games (contribution welcome). Nice list!

Worth reading

• Adrien Plazas: lWhat's New in Libhandy 1.2.
• FOSS Adventures: Real Linux on a Smartphone: PinePhone and openSUSE Tumbleweed. A nice post on an OpenSUSE focused blog.
• InfoWorld: PinePhone: A Linux smartphone a developer could love. Nice introductory article.
• Purism: App Showcase: Tootle. Tootle has really come along nicely.
• fedora Community Blog: “Houston, we have video”: Matrix video calls on the PinePhone. Another rehash of last weeks news.

Worth listening

• PineTalk 004: GPU-o-Rama. In this fourth episode, Ezra and I discuss news and community suggestions. Give it a listen!

Worth watching

• TechHut: Nextcloud + Minecraft Server on a Linux Phone!? PINEPHONE Stress Test!. It's a nice idea, but I would rather recommend to run these services on a Single Board Computer.
• Glenn Hancock: Mobian on the Pinephone Review 2021. Nice video!
• Glenn Hancock: Pine64 Pine Phone Motherboard replacement. How to disassemble a PinePhone to send in the mainboard.
• Privacy & Tech Tips: Howto: Compiling Sourcecode On LInux/Pinephone/Pinetab/Raspberry Pi. Nice tutorial! A natural follow up to this video would be videos that instruct people to use cmake or meson and ninja.
• Lucas Pires Camargo: booting postmarketOS on the Nokia N9. Nice to see postmarketOS booting on Nokias last Linux Phone.
• Bryan Olson: Pine Phone. The possibilities are endless!. A UBports edition, now? Interesting.
• UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 96. Another interesting update.

Stuff I did

Content

No content this week. Sorry.

LINMOBapps

Three new apps have been added, one via merge request (thanks, cahfofpai!) one on external suggestion by its author (thanks, The3DmaN!) and a little maintenance happened. I also added some more PKGBUILDs. Please do contribute!