Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (05/2024): Support Phosh and watch great talks!
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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!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #133 FOSDEM 2024
- GTK Dev Blog: GTK hackfest updates
- José: Let's talk about Mingle
- Allan Day: Announcing the GNOME Project Handbook
- Tobias Bernard: Save the Date: Berlin Mini GUADEC 2024
- GTK Dev Blog: New renderers for GTK On GLES 2 devices (PinePhone, Librem 5, ... technically, Librem 5 may eventually support GLES 3), remember to set
GSK_RENDERER=glwhen this lands. - Marcus Lundblad: FOSDEMaps
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.36.0
- Guido Günther: In case you want to support my work on #LinuxMobile and #Phosh financially i've added some options to https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/donations/ If you use and enjoy Phosh, here's a non time-consuming to give back!
- Phosh (Mastodon): We got some additional options from spreadshirt to schedule special offers on #phosh merchandise. So if you're interested in getting a hoodie or tshirt it might be worth to check the upcoming events at https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-fashion/#special-offers to save some money.We keep updating the list if we can schedule new ones.
- alaraajavamma: "Tweak your Phosh experience using css.…"
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: converging on a release
- KDE Announcements: KDE's Megarelease 6 - Release Candidate 2
- Volker Krause: December/January in KDE Itinerary
- Qt blog: Window embedding in Qt Quick
- redstrate: My work in KDE for January 2024
- redstrate: Gushing about KDE applications
- Phoronix: New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support
Sailfish OS
- adampigg: #sailfishos on the @PINE64 PInephone and PinephonePro got updates to kernel 6.7.0 and Mesa 23.3.5
- MarToo: "#SailfishOS #SFOS version 4.6.0.403 codename „Sauna” spotted on a #Sony #Xperia 10 V at the #FOSDEM conference in Brussels…"
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Newsletter Feb 02
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Focal Release
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 133
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Focal 20.04 OTA-4 Available Now.
- fredldotme: Tide meets Convergence on Ubuntu Touch
Distributions
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: Flatpak apps don't accept Maliit-Keyboard input correctly
Apps
- Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: Here’s one I know people will love: Butler, a HomeAssistant GUI. Scales perfectly from what I’ve seen to mobile, developer has not yet marked it as mobile friendly, but they clearly developed it to work well with mobile Linux.
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: fWallet
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Electrolysis
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Speedtest
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] usb: typec: anx7688: Add driver for ANX7688 USB-C HDMI bridge
- phone-devel: [PATCH] media: dt-bindings: qcom,sc7280-venus: Allow one IOMMU entry
- Phoronix: Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage
- Phoronix: Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised
- Phoronix: Linux 6.8-rc3 Released - Slightly Larger But Not Too Worrying
Stack
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver
- Phoronix: Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More
- Phoronix: SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-02-02
- Matrix.org: A roadmap and appeal for help from The Matrix.org Foundation
Worth Noting
- Martijn Braam: "Good 'ol 2018 #postmarketos "
- minute: "if for some reason you want to try the Beeper app on MNT Reform (or another aarch64 machine), you can download the linux/x64 AppImage and extract it, and install the electron nodejs package.…" Handy, will try!
- biktorgj: "I recently got some reports of issues in the PinePhone Pro modem,all recently purchased.…"
- Fiona: "So, got BT coex working. Turns…" - queer.af More progress on an upstreamable OG PinePhone driver!
- LogicalErzor: "Dang, today I learned that NFC in Linux is pretty much dying…"
- Brad Linder: "The Sipeed Lichee Console 4A is the first RISC-V mini laptop available…"
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Droidian is going to launch phones pre-installed with @droidian #fosdem2024
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: If you're at #FOSDEM2024: Let's meet on Sunday at 2:00pm https://linmob.net/fosdem2024/#let-s-meet-and-maybe-get-a-sticker Thanks to everyone who came by! It was super nice to nerd out!
- r/MobileLinux: Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Focal Released!
- PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): PinePhone battery life today.
- PINE64official (Reddit): Experience with customer service?
Worth Reading
- zerwuerfnis: Daily Driving the Pinephone Pro
- Jelly's Blog: GNOME battery charge control
- Purism: Purism Announces First Public Offering on StartEngine Hm.
- Purism: Purism Crosses $100,000.00 in fewer than 48 Hours
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 133 FOSDEM special, discussing ideas for the future, well done!
- Anino Ni Kugi: Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 4 - Quick Look (Focal OTA-4)
- Anino Ni Kugi: Lomiri Plus v1.8 | Ubuntu Touch
- qkall: PinePhone Pro x SXMO x Arch x Swayfx x Waybar - Feb 2024
- Luca Weiss: Ubuntu Summit 2023 - Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones
FOSDEM Talks More to Follow!
- FOSDEM 2024 - Towards a bright future with Mobian?
- FOSDEM 2024 - Flutter - about the nightmare of cross platform development targetting Linux mobile
- FOSDEM 2024 - The Journey to Ubuntu Touch 20.04 on PINE64
- FOSDEM 2024 - Universal Serial Bug - a tale of spontaneous modem resets
- FOSDEM 2024 - VoLTE for FOSS
- FOSDEM 2024 - 5G in ModemManager
- FOSDEM 2024 - The Linux Phone App Ecosystem That dude swears too much!
FOSS on Mobile dev-room videos will show up in this folder once released.
Videos from other dev rooms:
- FOSDEM 2024 - An open-source, open-hardware offline finding system
- FOSDEM 2024 - Google Home, But Better: Building our own Smart Home Display with Flutter
To quickly check which FOSDEM talk recordings have been published: hrw made a helpful website for that!
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
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