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State of the Droidian Project
Droidian is a Linux distribution based on Debian that is meant to run on Android-based devices. To accomplish this, it employs technologies such as Halium and libhybris. -
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (28/2023): How to avoid notches in Phosh and Snaps on Ubuntu Touch
Also: libcamera 0.1.0, Photography on the PinePhone Pro running Sailfish OS, a status update on the Juno tablet, the PineTab V approaching assembly and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (27/2023): Boot loader news and Phosh 0.29.0
Also: A new Glodroid release, Kupfer progress, updates to the Gentoo overlay for PinePhone (Pro), and more!
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Three Years of Weekly Updates on GNU-like Mobile Linux: Let's summarize and celebrate!
Three years and one day ago, the first Weekly Update on GNU-like mobile Linux, then dubbed LinBits, was published. A lot has happened since, and this celebratory blog post is an attempt to summarize highlights on a per-months basis.
I'd like to thank Blort for the idea and contributing so much to this post. Also, a huge thanks to Bobby Hamblin, earboxer and Zach de Cook for their contributions to this round-up. Without them, this post would have been far more delayed than just a day.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (26/2023): Liberty Phones and Nemo Mobile progress
It's almost three years after the first weekly update (stay tuned for a look back on tuesday (or help with it beforehand :) ), and we have a new Linux Phone offering by Purism that feels quite familiar.
PSA: If you still use Twitter actively, please help with collecting interesting/relevant content! _If you had asked me, how Twitter could get even worse a week ago, I would not have been able to predict this. Nitter is broken, and as all remaining ways to interface with Twitter are quite terrible and far too time-consuming.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (25/2023): Mobian on PineTab 2 and Droidian Trixie
Progress on NuttX on PinePhone, on FreeBSD on PinePhone Pro and a great episode of the postmarketOS podcast.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (24/2023): A new approach to Adaptivity
Reports from the recent (GNOME) Mobile Hackfest, improvements to automatic high-contrast mode coming to Phosh, some Sailfish OS Community News and someone giving up (temporarily).