Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (01/2024): Phosh 0.35.0 and a Ubuntu Touch Q&A
Table of Contents
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!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #129 Hello 2024
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.35.0 My favorite feature: "Make home bar smaller."
Plasma Ecosystem
- Volker Krause: 37C3 Impressions
- redstrate: My work in KDE for December 2023
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 4th January - Happy New Year 2024!
- adampigg: #SailfishOS on the @PINE64 PInetab2 got an updated kernel with new wifi driver. Good work by the community and @danct12
- adampigg: Instructions on updatinghttps://forum.sailfishos.org/t/the-pinetab2-thread/17262/30?u=piggz
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 130
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 129
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 128
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 127
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 126
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 131 Call for questions
- UBports - Mastodon: We're now live for Ubuntu Touch Q&A 131:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsT_Wl5oQ4
- fredldotme: My side project Tide is taking off from a feature perspective, I've planned even more awesome features like a WebAssembly-based plugin system!Get it here: https://apps.apple.com/at/app/tide-ide/id6450320573
- rubenlcarneiro on twitter: Enjoy OnePlus Nord N10 + Oneplus Nord N100 with #UbuntuTouch @UBports @ubuntuportugal And i wish you all an Happy New Year.
- Phoronix: Ubuntu Looking At Discontinuing Its Source ISOs
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Linux 6.6.8: needs manual steps for Xiaomi MI A2 Lite
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: device-generic-x86_64: add oem-specific subpackages
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): We have just received the latest driver and firmware from Bestechnic for the #BES2600.The latest driver no longer crashes on full load and is much faster than previous driver.@PINE64 #PineTab2
- Droidian (Mastodon): Video confrencing time!With the latest achievements from the community, Droidian will soon get support for camera over V4L2!This means that now all apps can access and utilize the camera without any latency.Thanks to @GranPC For taking this task off our hands and finishing it.#LinuxMobile #LinuxCamera #Privacy #Linux #Droidian #Phosh #Gnome #OpenSource #Mobile #FreeSoftware #LinuxSmartPhones #LinuxOnMobile
- Evv1L (Эвил): "#Droidian on #OnePlus6 /6T now supports encryption…"
- Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 16
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 37
Apps
- adampigg: New release (2.2) of #Amazfish, the #linux watch companion app. Many improvements for Amazfit and Pinetime/Infinitime devices. See https://github.com/piggz/harbour-amazfish/releasesAvailable on the #sailfish chum store, and will come to Ubuntu Touch soon. @PINE64 @JF @jmlich
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: The Amazfish 2.2.2 for #UbuntuTouch was published at OpenStore. It contain many fixes and improvements.https://fosstodon.org/@piggz/111682544116258506
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "#Bitwarden users on #LinuxMobile: https://flathub.org/apps/com.quexten.Goldwarden may be a new hope.…"
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "https://git.sr.ht/~mil/transit…"
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Add Crypto Engine support for SM6350
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] More thermal configuration for Fairphone 4
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Add display support for Fairphone 4
- Phoronix: Linux 6.8 To Drop SLAB While Delivering A SLUB Optimization: 34% Micro-Benchmark Win
- Phoronix: Linux 6.8 To Drop Old ARM11 MPCore CPU Support
Stack
- Phoronix: Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland
- Phoronix: Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-01-05
- Matrix.org: Migrating from EMS to self-hosted Matrix
Worth Noting
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Just in case someone is interested: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2024/en CfP is open until January 8th, 2023. I (Peter) attended last year, and there was pretty much nothing #MobileLinux related then, which was a bit sad. #LinuxMobile #clt2024 (I would submit something myself, but I don't think it's wise to take on more commitments at this point.)
- hamblingreen: "happy new year! and right to work i go, testing #framebufferphone on both #pmOS and #ArchLinuxARM on the #pinephone and #pinephone pro with a patch applied that updates fbp to be built on the Zig 0.11.0 codebase.…"
- Mallory: "Can we just stop using Discord…"
- Drew Naylor: "Before falling asleep last night I figured out how to make tiles slide around when in edit mode like #WindowsPhone, so I just implemented it. It's pretty cool I think.…"
- Duane Johnson: "Cédric Bellegarde (Geary contributor) has made some great progress recently on the open source Mail app for Linux…"
- Lioh: "Happy GNU Year! …" - social.anoxinon.de
- chfkch: "The last hour, i implemented the wrapper functions, for setting up/logging in/unlocking accounts and saving state to the db for the #BitWarden #LinuxMobile client.…"
- Schmiddi on Mobile: "Flare 0.11.1 is now out on Flathub and the AUR!…"
- Matt Lewis: "Looking for a #Psion-like experience on your #mobileLinux device? I've just released version 0.3.1 of Pygenda - my WIP Agenda app.…"
- Justine Smithies: "If you're a #Wayland #TilingWindowManager user then I'd really recommend that you go try #Wayprompt a multi-purpose (password-)prompt tool for Wayland.…"
- Clayton: "my colleague @cas just landed a patch in #postmarketOS that will make early boot logs e.g., from kernel and initramfs, available in a USB mass storage device for other systems to read if things go sideways during boot 🎉 …". This is brilliant!
- caleb: "updated the troubleshooting page on the @postmarketOS wiki... …". Well done!
- PINE64official (Reddit): January (Community?) Update?
- PINE64official (Reddit): Pinephone Pro Stuck on Boot Loop
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Librem 5 - Daily driven in professional use - SUCCESS
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Librem 5 vs Mid-level Samsung
- LINux on MOBile: "As a long time ARMv7/aarch64 Linux user, I totally forgot that things in #Linux x86_64 land can be quite cursed, too.…".
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Work on the list feature for combined search (e.g., GTK app, for service YouTube) is progressing, see the screenshot.…"
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "You can now tap or click links…"
Worth Reading
- Caleb Connolly: What Is Linux Mobile
- craftyguy: First month of nothin' but postmarketOS
- Phosh.mobi blog: Phosh 2023 in Retrospect
- r/MobileLinux: Phosh 2023 in Retrospect
- LINux on MOBile: Using the PinePhone Pro daily, despite having given up on it
- Proycon: Do not Restrict Me! How copy protection (DRM) on e-books harms our freedom and what to do about it
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 131
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E377: SFOS App – Captain's Log
- LINMOB.net: How I started using the PinePhone Pro after giving up on it + FOSDEM 2024 preview. Unless someone asks, this is not going to land on YouTube. Another title could have been: How I uploaded another video after giving up on video content ;-)
- RTP Tech Tips: 💡🕵️ Selfhost An Anonymous Blog Start a blog, it's fun!
The video section is shorter than usual, as the way to conveniently aggregate YouTube videos by using a searX instance, that allows RSS feeds, is currently unavailable, as the the searx instance is down. I was unable to quickly find another searX(NG) instance that supports this. Help with finding another searX(NG) instance supporting RSS feeds or with the collection of relevant videos is highly appreciated!
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
Something missing? Want to contribute?
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into the hedgedoc pad for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!