Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2023): Pocket Reforms and Other Improvements
Table of Contents
Libadwaita 1.3, new unofficial Ubuntu Touch builds, Matrix support in Chatty, improvements to GNOME Software on Alpine and more!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
- MNT Pocket Reform | Crowd Supply - it's not only available for funding, it's already made the threshold!
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #87 Editable Shortcuts
- alexm: Libadwaita 1.3
- tchx84: Portfolio 0.9.15
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.3, Bugfix Release for March
- Theophile: My experience taking part in Season of KDE
- KDE Eco: Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee
Ubuntu Touch
- Releases · Oren Klopfer / PinePhone + PinePhone Pro UBTouch Image Builder · GitLab Focal for both, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro!
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Alpine's ARM builders are temporarily unavailable
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 30
- Phoronix: Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Hard Freeze
Non-Linux
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-03-17
- Matrix.org: The DMA Stakeholder Workshop: Interoperability between messaging services
Worth noting
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- feborg: Register for Linux App Summit 2023! I'll likely will only be able to attend virtually, but you should totally go if you can!
- Clayton: "Hello again #postmarketOS edge users! [...] Quite often I was burning through my mobile data cap much quicker than normal, because a lot of traffic was being routed over mobile data... despite being connected to a perfectly fine, unmetered wifi network.…"
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Right now, we're (cautiously) working towards moving to individual markdown files as "source of truth" for app listings (instead of .csv). Many things need to be considered. Please chime in! …" Especially regarding snaps and ratings!
Worth reading
- Purism: Toward Matrix support in Chats – Part 2
- Linux Phone Guides: Librem 5: A to Z
- fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - March 17, 2023
- Pablo Yoyoista: GNOME Software and postmarketOS: a bumpy road – GNOME adventures in mobile Great work!
- Laoblog: Pinephone review: Ubuntu Touch Nitpick: No need to be in denial and stick to xenial, see above!
- Purism: Desktop Apps on the Lapdock
- Hamblingreen: Nexdock First Impressions
Worth listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #29 GNOME Software + apk, get your patches merged, pbsplash
Worth watching
- Purism: Desktop Apps on the Lapdock
- Canal do Lukita: Linux Phone - Ubuntu Touch - The best mobile OS
- CyberPunked: Droidian (Mobian / Debian for Android) - Google Pixel 3a (2023-03-15)
- Sailfish official: Xperia 5 droidian os and waydroid 11
- Scientific Perspective: postmarketOS | Linux 6.2.0
- emde: Ephemeral messaging Impressive!
- Eric Lovejoy: opencv4 on pinephone pro drawing circles on level and perpendicular using iio bus accelerometer.
- PINE64: PINE64 Quarterly Community Q&A, YouTube
Thanks
Huge thanks again to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
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