Posts
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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!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (50/2023): Fund postmarketOS and look forward to Plasma Mobile 6!
Community news for Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS, Plasma Mobile tuning things up to 6, and also we've been told that postmarketOS 23.12 will be released today - so, if you want to be ahead of this blog, check postmarketOS.org/blog!