LINux on MOBile - EmacsLINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.Zola2020-08-23T15:45:00+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/emacs/feed.xmlLinBits 7: Weekly PinePhone news / media roundup (week 34)2020-08-23T15:45:00+00:002020-08-23T15:45:00+00:00https://linmob.net/linbits7-weekly-pinephone-news-week34/<p><em>It's sunday. Now what happened since last sunday?</em></p>
<p>This is what happened around the PinePhone this week. <em>Commentary in italics.</em></p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="software-releases-and-improvements">Software: releases and improvements</h3>
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<li>New <a href="https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20200822">Arch Linux ARM release</a>. <em>Gnome Camera, Geary and Gnome Usage have been added, sudo is now a thing, and lz4 compression for zram is now available, making the zram-feature more useful. Also, there is a barebones image for all those who want to build their own little fun distro atop arch.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/storage/pinephone/phosh/alpha2-20200822/">Manjaro have released images with Phosh that feature Anbox preinstalled</a>. <em>Unfortunately, with <code>adb</code> currently broken in Manjaro (and Arch), this is nothing more than a demo on which you can't really install apps without jumping through a ton of hoops. At least Manjaro comes with a swap partition by design, which certainly helps.</em></li>
<li><a href="https://www.scardracs.com/fedora-per-pinephone-parte-2/">Scardracs</a>, fellow Italian blogger, has picked up Fedora for the PinePhone and released a couple builds this week on a <a href="http://t.me/fdxpp">Telegram channel</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/maeda_/status/1295414523537453056">EmacsはOS</a>. <em>Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any images to just simply get this up and running. It seems to be an amalgam of Arch Linux ARM, sway, Squeekboard, Waybar and Emacs.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="worth-reading">Worth reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>Blogger Bust: <a href="https://bloggerbust.ca/post/how-to-update-uboot-for-postmarketos-on-the-pinephone/">How To Update U-Boot For PostmarketOS On The Pine Phone </a>. <em>This is a really technical long read, but it is totally worth your time.</em></li>
<li>SailfishOS Forums: <a href="https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/changes-needed-to-merge-the-project-names-to-sailfish-os/1672">Changes needed to merge the project names to Sailfish OS</a>. <em>Jolla is going to turn off a lot of their infrastructure, including build servers, in the process of moving projects over to GitHub. This will affect the open source base project <a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer</a>, which has been in the process of being rebranded to Sailfish; and thus affect projects like <a href="https://nemomobile.net/">NemoMobile</a> which are based on Mer and share the infrastructure. It is also likely to negatively affect SailfishOS community ports. Sad.</em></li>
<li>FOSSphones: <a href="http://fossphones.com/changing-pinephone-os/">How to Change Operating Systems on Your PinePhone</a>. <em>Helpful!</em></li>
<li>Phoronix: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DeepSpeech-At-Risk">Mozilla's Incredible Speech-To-Text Engine Is At Risk Following Layoffs</a>. <em>Another sad bit of fall-out from the Mozilla Layoffs, which might impact Speech-to-Text solutions for the Pinephone.</em></li>
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<h3 id="worth-watching">Worth watching</h3>
<ul>
<li>silver: <a href="https://vimeo.com/448379583">Installing silvercam on a PinePhone</a>.</li>
<li>John Sullivan: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjHmefdNuI">Void on pinephone demo</a>. <em>Great watch, nice to see that the HP Lap Dock x3 works with the PinePhone.</em></li>
<li>Дмитрий Куртуков: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcKObWnAKA">Inside PINEPHONE keyboard</a>. <em>A look at how the keyboard that we've seen a couple times now has been hacked together.</em></li>
<li>PizzaLovingNerd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVz0aJG4Gac">6 Essential Ubuntu Touch Apps</a>. <em>A great, well produced little video, featuring some must-have apps for Ubuntu Touch.</em> </li>
<li>TWiT Tech Podcast Network: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm3HqtrXiOk">The Linux-Based PinePhone Has DIP Switches</a>. <em>It's always great to see more mainstream outlets pick up on the PinePhone.</em></li>
<li>Howto: Privacy & Infosec: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX4WbtpGRI">Pinephone Killswitch Tool- Household Item!</a>. <em>How to kill-switch!</em></li>
<li>Camden Bruce: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Qj9kY9G4Y">Running a Java Minecraft server off a pinephone</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7bB8G2gxg">Running a SuperTuxKart server off a pinephone</a>. <em>Yes, the PinePhone is just another Linux computer, so it totally can run your Minecraft or SuperTuxKart server.</em></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="coming-up">Coming up</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://debconf20.debconf.org/">debconf 20, the 21st Debian annual conference</a> is starting today, with a ton of interesting talks. Watch out for <a href="https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/13-my-phone-runs-debian-and-it-does-phone-calls/">this one</a> on Wednesday if you like Phosh.</li>
<li><a href="https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/">Linux Plumbers Conference</a> happens from August 24th to 28th. On Friday, the 28th at 15:30 UTC <a href="https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/835/">Bushan Shah will give a talk about Plasma on Mobile devices</a>.</li>
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<h3 id="stuff-i-did">Stuff I did</h3>
<ul>
<li>I failed to build Maliit on Arch Linux ARM and at getting Lomiri to run on Manjaro. </li>
<li>Also, not much progress on the App List/App DB front. I am really not sure how to set this up — as a part of this blog or as a seperate thing, maybe running Wiki software to make adding apps easier for those who are not familiar with GitHub? I hope I will figure this out this week. </li>
<li>At least I managed to upload <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNaftRCCRP8">two</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcYaCgwN-U">videos</a>.</li>
<li>That's not all I want to do, I will try to test some Android apps in Anbox on camera, namely Whatsapp and NewPipe. I might try GloDroid 0.3.0 finally, and then someone on reddit told me about <a href="https://gitlab.collabora.com/spurv">SPURV</a>, an effort to run Android 9 alongside Wayland by Collabora, for which they really <a href="https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/04/01/running-android-next-to-wayland/">picked a bad announcement date</a> with April Fools day. Unfortunately, building SPURV appears to be a bit beyond my abilities, so I hope I can avoid wasting time on it.</li>
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