Another week, another weekly update - this time collected and edited on another continent: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 comes with a new release model (and keeps pumping out Q&A videos), improvements coming to Phosh and to PinePhone Pro with a huge update to rk2aw and u-boot, a FOSDEM special episode of the postmarketOS podcast, a great video about Genode on PinePhone, and more!

Addition: Also, a new release of LuneOS, the continuation of webOS!

Commentary in italics.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Lune OS

  • pivotCE: LuneOS February Stable release: Eiskaffee. Long awaited new official release of LuneOS is out named Eiskaffee, fully based on Qt6, using Yocto Kirkstone release and is based on webOS OSE 2.23 release, Pine64 devices (PinePhone(Pro) and PineTab2 support added. (Thanks, Padraic!)

Distributions

Apps

Kernel

Stack

Matrix

Worth Noting

Worth Reading

Worth Listening

Worth Watching

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!