Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion
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This past week: Phosh 0.53.0 released, postmarketOS publishes FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap, feedbackd moved to freedesktop.org infrastructure, Navit 0.5.7 offline navigation app released after 5 years, Linux 7.0 adds Qualcomm Milos (used in Fairphone 6) and Jolla Phone 2026 surpasses 8,700 pre-orders, and more. Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- postmarketOS Blog: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon
- Phosh.mobi e.V.: Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026
- Martijn Braam: Building a FOSS live streaming camera
- CNX Software: Linux 6.19 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E508: SFOS – AAS Installer Patcher
- NDK: Experience Ubuntu Touch on Google Pixel 3a
- amarullz: "Front Assembly, Display Glue - piBrick PocketCM5". Interesting project!
- Elly: Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite booting mainline Linux
- Smokin' Silicon: This $120 Phone DOESN'T run Android or iOS... 🤔. Remastered variant of last weeks PinePhone Braveheart video.
- Techspheres: Setting up Sailfish OS in Sony XA 2 - Jolla sailfish OS - Awesome experience
- Phosh.mobi: Launch splash in Phosh's overview
Worth Noting
- DrewNaylor: "Finally started using the milestones for Retiled since I feel like it's getting to the point where I can plan out changes better than just having a to-do list issue. Need to start closing and fixing older issues, too.#Retiled"
- phosh: #feedbackd (together with the device themes and #rust bindings) moved to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/feedbackd/ . Many thanks to the fdo maintainers for having us!#phosh #LinuxMobile
- Purism community: Kernel 6.12 available for testing
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Which phone and OS should I pick?
Hardware (enablement)
- aelin: "After days debugging the stupidest mistake ever, we finally have penguins on sm7450 (fillmore) :akko_smile2:"
- dubstar_04: Another interesting opensource phone project: https://github.com/V3lectronics/SPIRIT Its very cool to see these projects progress. #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile
- dubstar_04: This is a super ambitious project to create open phone hardware: https://github.com/DansDesigns/OSM-Phone I would love to see this a success and support @mobian and @postmarketOS#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile
Events
- mobilni_linux_cs_sk: "#6 #MobileLinux Hackday je zde!v pátek 20. 2. 2026 od 10:00 do večera vSUSE Linux, s.r.o.Křižíkova 148/34Praha 8 - KarlínDoprava:- tram/metro KřižíkovaTémata:- od jádra (posílání patchů, b4, atd.)- až po user-space (balíčkování, Flatpak, drobné opravy aplikací aby pěkně běželi na telefonech)- Mobian- pohnout s OnePlus 6 / 6T, Xiaomi Poco F1 #sdm845- experimentování s #FairPhone 5Prosím potvrďte účast i když dorazíte později nebo budete muset odejít brzy.Budem se těšit!Telefon: +420608263376 (také Signal)"
- gnome: "#GUADEC2026 CfP is open! 🎉🎉We are seeking talks on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:- Application development- Privacy and security- Community and team building- Design of user and developer experience- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop- Newcomers initiatives- Project planning and governanceWe will be accepting both remote and in-person presentation submissions.#GNOME #GUADEC"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #236 New Library
- Asman Malika: Career Opportunities: What This Internship Is Teaching Me About the Future
- Phoronix: GNOME OS To Use systemd-confext, RustConn Provides Modern GTK4 Connection Manager
- Phoronix: GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements
Phosh
- Phosh releases: Phosh 0.53.0
- Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026
- phosh: "phosh 0.53.0 is out 🚀📱:There's plenty of 🐛 fixes, improvements and refinements of existing features this time.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.53.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile"
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.23.0
- Planet KDE: QCoro 0.13.0 Release Announcement
- Planet KDE: While you support others, who supports you?
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6 Sees Last Minute Fixes, Plasma 6.7 Aims For Painless Samba Shares
Sailfish OS
- Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 26th February 2026
- #sailfishOS: 8700. Just two weeks left to 10k. ...possibly less.⌚ #SailfishOS #Jolla
- #sailfishOS: Released v0.2 of my Twinkle Reader for #SailfishOS! Speed reading + built-in summarization.Now on OpenRepos: https://openrepos.net/content/kokorins/twinkle-reader#OpenRepos #Jolla #LinuxMobile
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 24.04-1.2
- UBports - Development - Merge Requests: examples/README.md: Markdownify file, fix some typos and capitalizations and...
- UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Port: buteo-syncfw-qml to Qt6
- UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Port to CMake and Qt 6
- #UbuntuTouch: It seems that #WayDroid 1.6.0+ forwards notifications to #Linux desktops. That's great and I'll test it: is it possible to exploit this not only for desktop os, but also for #UbuntuTouch? https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/waydroid-1-6-0-forward-notifications-to-desktop/
- #UbuntuTouch: Playing with #UbuntuTouch: while having a native #Linux terminal is great, I noticed several relevant lacks. Apart many users with #GPS issues, a native mail client is missing: #Dekko2, the “most suggested” one, appears to be discontinued, while both it and the main OS (!!) do not support #OAuth2. So the best option is to stick with #webapps, or to use #Waydroid, an internal #Android emulator, with limits (such as the impossibility to share #notifications with the main os). What am I missing?
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Boot failures on Android bootimg and EFI-only devices
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: linux-postmarketos-qcom-sc7280: upgrade to 6.19.0
Apps
- adampigg: Added genre support so Supersonik, my @kde Kirigami #mobilelinux #subsonic client #sailfishos https://github.com/piggz/supersonik/
- newbyte: Opened a merge request to get the Megapixels camera app working again via software rendering on devices that don't support the graphics APIs GTK 4 requires nowadays like the original PinePhone and Exynos 4xxx devices. Performance isn't amazing but it's definitely better than I would've expected. https://gitlab.com/megapixels-org/Megapixels/-/merge_requests/62
- jkoan: After about 5 years we finally did it, the next version of #navit is released now! https://github.com/navit-gps/navit/releases/tag/v0.5.7 It brings loads of bug fixes and also some new features :)For everyone reading who doesn't know what Navit is, it's a fully offline #openstreetmap based #navigation software for many different systems. With #geoclue it also works well on #mobilelinux. But we also have an app for #android. The docs can be found here: https://navit.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.7/
- Mat: "I finally got Linux support for the #Rockwork #Pebble client ready for merge, and now I find out #AlpineLinux is (justifiably) phasing out Qt5 packaging, so I can't actually use it. 🫠…"
Kernel
- CNX Software: Linux 6.19 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: qcom: milos-fairphone-fp6: Add Hall Effect sensor
- phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: milos: Sort pinctrl subnodes by pins
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Add CAMSS node
- kernellogger: "Some highlights from the SoC devicetree updates (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/6589b3d76db2d6adbf8f2084c303fb24252a0dc6) and SoC driver updates (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/bdbddf72a2ab1cfea699959795d70df3931eefe7) merged for #Linux 7.0 and submitted by @arnd :""[…] handful of new SoCs this time[…]* SpacemiT Key Stone K3 is an 8-core risc-v chip […]:* The Realtek Kent family of SoCs contains three chip models […]* The Qualcomm Milos family includes the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 (SM7635) mobile phone SoC […] used in the #Fairphone Gen 6* Qualcomm Kaanapali is a new SoC […]* NXP i.MX8QP and i.MX952 are both feature reduced versions of we already support […][…] a number of to firmware drivers, in particular the TEE subsystem[…]* sysfs support for tee firmware informationMost of the other changes are for random drivers/soc code. Among a number of cleanups and newly added hardware support, including:* Mediatek MT8196 DVFS power management and mailbox support […]""#LinuxKernel #Kernel"
- Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Wires Up Arm's 64-byte Single-Copy Atomic Instructions LS64/LS64V
- Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Lands 8D-8D-8D Octal DTR Support In SPI NAND For Better Performance
- Phoronix: Sheaves Ready To Play A Bigger Role In Linux 7.0
Stack
- LWN: The future for Tyr
- Phoronix: Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes
- Phoronix: X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-13
- Matrix.org: Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Thanks
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