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FOSDEM 2024: A Short Report
This is just a loose recollection of events, mostly for myself to not forget things.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (05/2024): Support Phosh and watch great talks!
Delayed and with post-FOSDEM blues, this Weekly Update goes through what happened in the past week:
Phosh 0.36.0 and Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA 4 were released, new renderers in GTK4 are going to be good for performance, but not on slower Linux Phones, you can support Phosh's development directly now, an Update on Itinerary, progress on the new PinePhone WiFi driver, and recordings of FOSDEM talks showing up!
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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.