Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2024): Q&A's and Community Updates
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PINE64 is back with a Community Update after a long hiatus, a new Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a postmarketOS progress report, the new PinePhone WiFi driver gets accepted, Plasma Mobile 6.0.2 makes Plasma Mobile even more worth trying, and a lot more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- PINE64: March Update: Making waves Nice to see another Community Update!
- thejackimonster: GNUnet Messenger API: March 2024
- Purism: 2023 Finance Report: Profitable, More Assets than Liabilities, Over $9m in Sales, 50% Margin
- Purism: Purism Differentiator Series, Part 7: Freedoms
- LINMOB.net: Push notifications in (mobile) Linux Thank you for the guest post, darkdragon-001!
Worth Watching
- UBports: UBports Q&A 136
- nmariusp: KDE Plasma Mobile 6 in postmarketOS in QEMU VM tutorial - March 2024 - cdcca9c7
- Purism: Investor Report 2023
Worth Noting
- @fizzo: #phosh works great on the #uConsole running #postmarketos 😊@agx do you know a way of booting in Landscape mode? Currently I have to switch to Landscape mode at each boot using the quicksettings.I’ve tried setting
rotate=90inphoc.inibut that just rotates the lockscreen. - @airtower: Just rebased my #rtw8723cs work on megi's 6.8, and the change persists. AFAIK the proper fix would be in DTS (so the kernel driver names the headset jack correctly), but the quick fix is what I did. #LinuxMobile
- @justsoup: #Lomiri on #postmarketOS running on systemd! It is in a very early state and barely anything works yet, but I am excited about the prospects of not having to dance around the OpenRC polyfills anymore!#Linux #MobileLinux
- Chris Vogel: "When doing the #deskhop to share..."
- PocketVJ: "finally installed an offline chatbot…"
- Zach "earboxer" DeCook: "workspace_swipe_touch was just merged into #Hyprland…"
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Is anyone running postmarketOS on one of the ~2015-era MSM8916 Samsung Galaxy phones?
- r/MobileLinux: Questions on the Capabilities of Ubuntu Touch + Google Pixel 3a
- PinePhone (Reddit): Pinephone battery upgrade I have that battery, too. It's good.
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: New, from Soprani.ca/JMP Chat: an eSIM adapter
- @topjor: Today I got fed up having to manually enable / disable charging for my librem5 and made a little tool to automate this based on battery %.For anyone interested in this tool for #LinuxMobile : https://gitlab.com/j0dev/golang/chargecontrolI normally have my phone connected to the charger when at my desk at home or work and don't want to constantly charge / discharge my battery.
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #139 Just Before the Release
- uraeus: PipeWire camera handling is now happening!
- alicem: Libadwaita 1.5
- Marcus Lundblad: Maps and GNOME 46
- Phoronix: New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46
Phosh
- Guido Günther: With a bit of help from #phoc the next phosh-osk-stub release can (optionally) hide when a keyboard gets attached.#phosh #LinuxMobile
- @agx: With a bit of help from #phoc the next phosh-osk-stub release can (optionally) hide when a keyboard gets attached.#phosh #LinuxMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Dolphin levels up
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.0.2, Bugfix Release for March
- Volker Krause: Completing the KDE Frameworks 6 transition
- Quick Fixes: This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too.
- @espidev: Plasma 6.0.2 has just released, with fixes for many bugs that impacted the initial release of Plasma Mobile.https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.0.1-6.0.2/#plasma-mobilehttps://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.0.0-6.0.1/#plasma-mobile#plasmamobile. I wish I had waited for this to land before recording last weeks video, as the most glaring bugs are all fixed now! Try if you have a device faster than OG PinePhone or MSM8916, and have a good experience!
Sailfish OS
- adampigg: #SailfishOS and #Ofono Day 8 - Laptop Disasterhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-8
- adampigg: There is no Ofono diary today ... but i did accidentally rm -rf my home dir, which is a bit of a 'mare!
- adampigg: #SailfishOS and #ofono Day 7 - fixing the signal strengthhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-7
- adampigg: #SailfishOS and #Ofono Day 6 - Signal Strengthhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-6
- adampigg: #SailfishOS and #Ofono day 5 - Small winshttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-5
- adampigg: #sailfishos #ofono Day 4 - calls and plugins https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-4
- adampigg: I made it to Day 3! #SailfishOS #Ofono https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-3
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 187
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 186
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 185
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 184
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 183
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 136 Call For Questions
- #UbuntuTouch: Das Volla Tablet - ab April 2024 auf @kickstarter ❗Registrieren unter tablet.volla.online 🥳--------------The Volla Tablet - on Kickstarter in April 2024 ❗Register now at tablet.volla.online 🥳#volla #tablet #opensource #softwaredevelopment #opensourcesoftware #vollaos #smartphone #dataprotection #security #freedom #UbuntuTouch #kickstarter #Crowdfunding #privacy
Nemo Mobile
- neochapay on twitter: Hello @telegram on #nemomobile GlacierUX @ManjaroLinuxARM on @thepine64
Distributions
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): It's new, the kernel versionIt's 6.8, the feeling I've gotand it's ooh, woah-ohIt's in testing repoKernel version 6.8.0-danctnix1 for @PINE64 #PineTab2 is now available for testing.You can find the kernel in [danctnix-testing] repository.
- Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Release 202403140226
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 37
- postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2024-03: systemd and more trusted contributors
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2024-03: systemd and more trusted contributors
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: Firefox seems to inhibit sleep (drains battery)
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: Suggestion: postmarketOS User Repository
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: msm-firmware-loader: systemd support
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: soc-qcom-sc7280: new aport
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: device-shift-otter: new device
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Powkiddy X55
Apps
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] usb: typec: ptn36502: switch to DRM_AUX_BRIDGE
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add Samsung Galaxy Note 3 support
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/3] Split sony-castor into shinano-common and add Sony Xperia Z3
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Add Inline Crypto Engine for SC7280 UFS
- Collabora: Kernel 6.8: MediaTek community flourishes
- Phoronix: Linux 6.9 VFIO Updates Bring A New Driver For NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper Superchip
- Phoronix: Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.9
Stack
- Retiring the Mozilla Location Service · Issue #2065 · mozilla/ichnaea · GitHub Sad, but ... this end was a long time coming.
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes
- Phoronix: An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-03-15
- Matrix.org: Why the Matrix.org Homeserver Exists?
mobile-config-firefox
- LINux on MOBile: MFC03: Overdue failures
- LINux on MOBile: MCF02: First shave some Yaks
- LINux on MOBile: MCF01: The what, the why and a first MR
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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