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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (04/2024): Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 + FOSDEM preparations
With FOSDEM 2024 approaching, let's have another roundup: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA 4, gmobile 0.0.5, an update on progress in Nemo Mobile (plus a Qt6-based image to try out), a healthy "Worth Reading" section, another episode of the postmarketOS podcast and sadly not much of a video section.
Also, one ask: Please part-take in this pseudo-survey - thank you!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (03/2024): OG PinePhone WiFi Progress
Another week, another update: The RTW8723CS driver progresses nicely, a Year in Review post by Mobian, releases of libdng and libmegapixels, Sailfish OS Community News, another Ubuntu Touch Q&A and more.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (02/2024): Plasma 6 rc1, Phosh 0.35.1, and WiFi/BT progress
Aside from progress regarding the next releases of major desktop environments (that always provide some goodies for mobile), this week saw improvements on WiFi/BT things on Sailfish OS, but also some promising work towards a mainline-able rtl8723cs driver, the infamous WiFi/BT solution of the OG AllWinner A64-powered PinePhone. Also: libcamera 0.2.0, a progress report on KDE PIM, Mobian on the Fairphone 5, and a postmarketOS progress report.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (01/2024): Phosh 0.35.0 and a Ubuntu Touch Q&A
Progress in GNOME (that grant is really working!), PineTab 2 WiFi driver news, a first (for 2024) collection of SailfishOS Community News, various bits of postmarketOS news, a worth reading section truly worth reading, two not very refined bits of content by yours truly about the PinePhone Pro, some progress on the website tech of LinuxPhoneApps.org and more!
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Using the PinePhone Pro daily, despite having given up on it
After my failure with Beepy, and inspired by the SiPeed Lichee Pi4a Console, I figured: Let's see if a micro-laptop is still something my aging self finds useful.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (52/2023): Closing remarks for 2023
A quiet, last week of the year, collected for the last time in 2023. Thank you for reading the updates in the past year, and all the kind feedback. :-)
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (51/2023): postmarketOS 23.12 and Happy Holidays!
Hohoho, time for one of the lasts Weekly Updates of 2023, bringing many nice things: postmarketOS 23.12, new Manjaro images for PP/PPP, a Phosh bugfix release, an explainer how to switch On Screen Keyboards in Phosh, and many more free software gifts!