Posts
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GNU/Linux on Tolino Tab 8
Editors note: The following is a guest post by Benjamin, who wrote in because he found an old blog post of mine aboout tablets that mentioned the Tolino Tab 8 - an Intel Bay Trail-powered device I ultimately gave up on. He did not, and here's what he did.…
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (42/2025): Mobian Trixie
This past week: Mobian Trixie got released, a nice UBports Q&A and some Sailfish OS Community News. Also, it's now a lot more clear what the FSF librephone initiative is about (thankfully it is not another AOSP distribution), a PureOS Crimson progress report and more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2025): More than just Librephone
The Free Software Foundation announced a Librephone project (which remains guesswork, as their's no public recording), a project to build a smartphone based on RaspBerry Pi Compute Modules, postmarketOS report September accomplishments, and way, way more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (40/2025): Ubuntu Touch 24.04 1.0, Phosh 0.50.0 and more numbers
Ubuntu Touch 24.04 lands and seriously modernizes Ubuntu Touch (and supports the Fairphone 5), Phosh sees some more polish and niceties with 0.50, another quarterly Update on LinuxPhoneApps.org, new things in the 6.17 kernel, and more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (39/2025): Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA 10 and a birthday
FuriLabs turns two (right after announcing their second phone), Ubuntu Touch pumps out one more 20.04 based OTA, some hardware enablement progress, and more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (38/2025): GNOME 49 and a new phone from FuriLabs
Quite the week: FuriLabs announce a new phone (FLX1s), we had a major GNOME release, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A happened, another collection of Sailfish OS Community News was published, and way, way more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (37/2025): Alarm Week
It was Cell Broadcast Test week in Germany, Droidian 101 was released, Jolla launch a voluntary subscription, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Call for Testing and more! Enjoy!