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LinBits 69: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 43/44)
This Week in Mobile Linux: Phosh 0.14.0 delivers a bunch of quality of life improvements, Maemo Leste shares a massive progress report, Jolla present Sailfish OS 4.3.0 and more!…
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LinBits 68: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 42/43)
Yet Another week in Linux Phones: Kernel progress for the Librem 5, UNISOC and old Tegra SoCs, Plasma Mobile Dev builds with Modem Manager; Nemo Mobile progress videos, Matrix news, new releases of Numberstation, phoc and DanctNIX and more!…
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LinBits 67: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup featuring PinePhone Pro (week 41/42)
Summarizing the past week in Linux on Mobile: KDE turns 25 and ships Plasma 5.23, Jolla turns ten and announces a Sailfish X discount, the Maui project reports great improvements, Manjaro release the 17th beta of their Phosh flavour for the PinePhone. Oh, and the PinePhone Pro happened!…
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Initial thoughts on the PinePhone Pro
Today, PINE64 announced their second phone, the PinePhone Pro. Now what to make of this? What is it? Is it worth the USD 400 price tag? How does it compare to existing Linux Phones?…
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LinBits 66: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 40/41)
Summing up seven days in Mobile Linux: Nemo Mobile publish another Manjaro-based image for the PinePhone that shows a lot of progress, postmarketOS stable 21.06 gets a third Service Pack (plus: another great podcast episode and nice videos) and UBports needs you to step up!…
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LinBits 65: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 39/40)
This week in Linux Phones: Nemo Mobile and Mobile NixOS progress reports, updates on Kalendar, KQuickImageEdior and some GNOME apps, a guide to PinePhone Privacy, yet more cross-compilation, a cool new podcast and many PinePhone videos!…
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Playing with Swmo
Of all the UI's people use on their Linux Phones, Sxmo is one of the few that has its origins on the PinePhone. But it uses X.org, which like it or not, is legacy technology. Recently there's been work of bringing the Sxmo experience over to Wayland, and these are my notes after trying it for a few hours.