Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (10/2024): postmarketOS adds systemd and Phosh 0.37.0
Table of Contents
Also: Some Sailfish OS Community news, a new blog series on Ofono things, a DanctNIX release, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- postmarketOS Blog: Adding systemd to postmarketOS This is great news, IMHO! OpenRC stays on - it remains default for, e.g., Sxmo and will remain an option in pmboostrap for everything, but systemd will be default where that makes lives easier. I am very sure that this would not be done if this would not make the task of making postmarketOS a great experience easier - meaning: It's apparently easier to get systemd running on musl, than putting in the work to make all the shims/polyfills for GNOME or KDE Plasma work at all/even well. I believe it's good to see postmarketOS as the mainline Mobile Linux project that supports the most devices become closer to what most Linux users are used to, not to mention features like cgroups and homed, that will definitely help building something competitive Thumbs Up!
- fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - March 6, 2024 Well done!
- Purism: Purism Differentiator Series, Part 6: Security
- José Dapena: Maintaining downstreams of Chromium: why downstream?
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E407: Sailfish OS – "Wordle"
- UBports: UBports Q&A 135
- LINMOB.net: A short look at Plasma Mobile 6, YouTube
Worth Noting
- Alexander Martinz: "We at SHIFT are trying to make our devices more developer friendly.…"
- Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:: "The long game is paying off: m…" - Blaede Family
- Fiona: Mew, first #rtw8723cs push in a while, just small changes requested in review.
- Sonny: "About the true purpose of systemd…" - FLOSS.social
- @justsoup: I finally have another development phone so I can get back to work on #AbyssalLinux. First things first is to update and upstream what I have to #VoidLinux, then move on to actually booting the thing! ;)#Linux #MobileLinux
- PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): can a pinephone with keyboard case be used in text mode only
- Purism (Reddit): NFC support?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Is anyone running postmarketOS on one of the ~2015-era MSM8916 Samsung Galaxy phones?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Phosh 0.37.0
- Lemmy - linuxphones: What linux phone is closest to ready for daily use
- @fellr: To everyone who considers themselves a fan of Flatpaks: I just installed a single app (Fractal) and it now occupies two and a half gigabytes on my sixteen gig tablet.Are you sure this is the right way to distribute software?#flatpak #linux #fractal #postmarketos #linuxmobile
- @jbzfn: 📱Distribution Release: Murena 1.20 ➥ DistroWatch「 The Murena project provides an Android-based, mobile operating system which strives to replace Google proprietary apps with open source alternatives along with a range of privacy protecting features 」https://distrowatch.com/index-mobile.php?newsid=12074#murena #android #privacy #distro #opensource #mobilelinux. This is just Android to me, sorry.
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Should we move from framagit? …"
Hardware
- Liliputing: Volla Tablet will ship with Android, but supports Ubuntu Touch multi-boot (crowdfunding)
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #138 Refreshing Changes
- GTK blog: Accessibility improvements in GTK 4.14
- GTK blog: On fractional scales, fonts and hinting
- chergert: Improving poll() timeout precision
- sophieh: Pika Backup Hopping Through Milestones
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi blog: Phosh Nightly Package Builds
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.37.0
- Phosh (Mastodon): phosh 0.37.0 is out 🚀📱:- Wi-Fi selection via quick settings- Build custom quick settings via plugins- Caffeine quick settings- Support fractional-scale-v1 protocol- Updated #squeekboard layouts- Improved Sound file and favorites selection- Hardware specific pages in Tour- Support notches of 16 more phones- Support trie predictor in p-o-s - Support more emojis in p-o-sCheck out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.37.0/#phosh #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #GNOMEMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: How YOU Help With Quality
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: a deluge of new features
- Nate Graham: PSA: enable 3D acceleration in your VirtualBox VMs
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.11, Bugfix Release for March
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Bugfix Release for March
- kontact blog: January and February in KDE PIM
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 7th March 2024 - EULA
- [Release notes] Struven ketju 4.5.0 EULA update - Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum
- adampigg: #SailfishOS and #Ofono Day 2 https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-2
- adampigg: #SailfishOS Adventures with Ofono https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono
- adampigg: Fun fact...... the @PINE64 #PinephonePro now ships with its OS as my build of #SailfishOS https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pro-explorer-edition/ If you'd like to support my work, please donate to https://paypal.me/piggz
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 180
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 179
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 178
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 177
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 176
- #sailfishOS: Translation strings for the Sailfish OS Release 4.6.0 #Jolla has started the community translation round for the next #SailfishOS update. It has around 140 strings to be translated and the deadline for translations is the 24 March. Source: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/localisation-translation-strings-for-the-sailfish-os-release-4-6-0/Translate Sailfish OS: https://translate.sailfishos.org/
- #sailfishOS: Sailfish OS 4.5.0.25 now available. This update only includes a revised EULA and thus prepares for the upcoming 4.6.0 Sauna release. For older devices (Jolla C, Tablet, Gemini PDA, Xperia X), 4.6.0 will be the final update. Also: changes to payment handling on Jolla Shop & predictive text input issue for new #SailfishX license buyers, currently being resolved. Read more here: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-struven-ketju-4-5-0-eula-update/18127#SailfishOS #Jolla
Ubuntu Touch
- fredldotme: In other news I've picked back up work on Halium device support inside of snapd.Rebased on top of current master and more goodies, it should allow using GL drivers on even more Halium devices.
- fredldotme: Also close to finish: Dark and Light Modes for the Shell!
- #UbuntuTouch: 🐧 Volla tablet will ship with Android, but supports Ubuntu Touch multi-boot (CROWDFUNDING) | Liliputing「 The Volla Tablet will have a 12.3 inch, QHD The Volla Tablet will have a 12.3 inch, QHD display, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a MediaTek Helio G99 processor with two ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores up to 2.2 GHz, six Cortex-A55 cores up to 2 GHz, and Mali-G57 MC2 graphics 」 https://liliputing.com/volla-tablet-will-ship-with-android-but-supports-ubuntu-touch-multi-boot-crowdfunding/#volla #ubuntutouch #android #tablet #opensource
- #UbuntuTouch: New release 1.4.0 of DeltaTouch, now in the OpenStore.Features:👍 Reactions! Long press a message to react with an emoji.💠 Many small bugfixes, adjustments and refactorings.Full list of changes in the changelog, see https://codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #UbuntuTouch
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: Adding systemd to postmarketOS
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Plasma Bigscreen has been disabled on Edge until KDE 6.1 releases
- Mobian (Mastodon): Debian Trixi currently undergoes a big transition with most packages being rebuilt. Right now is not a good time to 'apt dist-upgrade'. Some package upgrades will be held back. Right now dist-upgrade wants to remove phosh-phone, librem5-support and libglib2.0-bin, which seems like a bad idea...Hold it back some time until things quiet down. Thanks.
- Pine64-Arch: Arch Linux ARM - 2024/03/08
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): Preparing for Plasma Mobile 6...
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): #ArchLinuxARM for @PINE64 #PinePhone / #PinePhonePro (2024/03/08) has released.New releases will be digitally signed from now on.Release Notes + Downloads: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20240308#linuxmobile #mobilelinux #DanctNIX
Apps
- adampigg: Released Amazfish version 2.2.4 for all your Linux Smartwatch needs!Fix schedule display on lift wristMisc Ubuntu Touch fixesFix alert icon handling@AsteroidOS Screenshot supportFix setting-save bugThanks to @jmlich and nephros for contributions
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Memorize
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Date Calculator
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: GoForIt!
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Melon
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] Imagis touch keys and FIELD_GET cleanup
- phone-devel: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974pro-castor: Remove camera button definitions
- Phoronix: Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes
- Phoronix: Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9
- Phoronix: Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers
- Phoronix: Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver
Stack
- Phoronix: Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding
- Phoronix: Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing
- Phoronix: Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling
- Phoronix: GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps
- Phoronix: Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-03-08
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