Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (13/2023): Sxmo 1.14 + updates by Nemo Mobile and Plasma Mobile
Table of Contents
Also: A last hurray for Ubuntu Touch 16.04 with OTA 25, Qt 5.15 and Kirigami on Sailfish OS, and more.
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-25 Release I've booted my Nexus 4 for a last update - and it's great!
- UBports News: PinePhone and PinePhone Pro
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #89 Steady Framerates
- GNOME Shell & Mutter: Ensuring steady frame rates with GPU-intensive clients
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: it’s the little things that count
- Plasma Mobile: This Month in Plasma Mobile: March 2023
- Volker Krause: February/March in KDE Itinerary
- ~redstrate: My work in KDE for March 2023
Nemo Mobile
- Nemo Mobile UX team: Nemomobile in March 2023
Sailfish OS
- Sailfish OS Forum, piggz: Developer Announcement - Qt 5.15 available for app developer testing
- Adam Pigg (@adampigg): "#KDE #Kirigam2 coming to a #SailfishOS device near you. @JollaHQ @kdecommunity"
Sxmo
Linux
- Phoronix: Panfrost Driver For Linux 6.4 Adds Speed Binning, New MediaTek SoCs
- [PATCH v4 0/6] dts: qcom: arm64: sdm845: SLPI DSP enablement - Dylan Van Assche
Non-Linux
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-03-31
- Matrix.org: Security releases: matrix-js-sdk 24.0.0 and matrix-react-sdk 3.69.0
Worth noting
- Purism community: More Librem 5 apps! – A tutorial to compile Flutter apps for Librem 5 on x64 machine This is cool!
- Widevine support (Netflix,Spotify, Disney+...) for aarch64-devices like the Pinephone could be coming soon
- Adam: "#pinephone signal app flatpak …" Please get involved!
- Robert Mader: "Pretty cool milestone for cameras on the #PinePhonePro and the #libcamera + #PipeWire stack today: the #Manjaro images (the stock distro) for both #phosh and #PlasmaMobile now come with all required packages by default.…"
- Robert Mader: "@dubstar_04 I personally don't…" Plans for libcamera 0.0.5.
- TuxPhones: "It's the Yearly Poll™ time again! Do you use any of the following as a daily driver? …" - Fosstodon Go vote and share your experiences!
- Diamond: "Discord on a Nokia 2780! I wrote it using a small version of my Go Discord library. It's a PWA app that also works on desktops.…"
Worth reading
- PINE64: March Update: Tablet Bonanza!
- PINE64official (Reddit): March Update: Tablet Bonanza! | PINE64
- Make Use Of: 8 Things to Do After Unboxing a Purism Librem 5 Better use apt full-upgrade!
- OMG!Linux: Tuba is a Magnificent New Mastodon App for Linux Tuba is great, but I'm pretty sure Joey never tried Tootle 2.0 alpha...
Worth listening
- Jupiter Broadcasting: Linux Action News 286 Brief bit on Ubuntu Touch!
Worth watching
- PINE64: March Update: Tablet Bonanza!, Odysee
- FSFE: Flashing OnePlus 6T with postmarketOS
- The Linux Experiment: Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Linux Phone improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT: Linux & Open Source News
- CodeInc: Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- LiKoToN: ChatGPT on Sailfish OS
- Tech Box: This is NOT READY - Linux on Tablets
- Ubuntu OnAir: Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba - March 31, 2023 This episode will be all about UBports and the amazing strides they’ve made over the years. Alfred has been around in the UBports space for a number of years and since it uses Mir, we have a resident Mir expert, Alan. So please come and learn about UBports and Mir, and ask any questions you have!
- Canal do Lukita: WhatsApp on Ubuntu Touch #linuxphone
- Canal do Lukita: Banco Itaú on Ubuntu Touch #linuxphone #bancoitau #itausa #ubuntu
- Canal do Lukita: Trying install Nubank on Ubuntu Touch #linuxphone #linux #ubuntu #nubank
- Canal do Lukita: Playing Super Mario on Ubuntu Touch (GBC Emulator) #linuxphone #supermario #ubuntu #nintendo
Thanks
Huge thanks to adraic, ptrshb, KDG and again to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
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