LINux on MOBile

Also: Phosh 0.26.0, Lomiri in Fedora, newer GNOME Shell with mobile patches in postmarketOS, mainlining progress and more!.

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

• PINE64: PineTab-V and PineTab2 launch

Software progress

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #90 Enabling Feedback
• jrb: Crosswords 0.3.8: Change Management
• Purism community: Squeekboard release 1.22.0
• phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.26.0

Plasma ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: All about the apps
• KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.105.0
• KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.4, Bugfix Release for April
• Volker Krause: Branching KDE PIM for the final phase of the Qt 6 port
• k3yss: Season of KDE Blog #2
• Nicolas Fella: Month two as KDE Software Platform Engineer
• Carl Schwan: Accessible icon-only buttons in QML
• Qt blog: Qt for Python: the new 6.5 version is out!

Sailfish OS

• Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 6th April, 5G

Distributions

• Fedora (Terra): Lomiri is desktop in Terra for Fedora Though still very buggy and experimental!
• postmarketOS: Gnome Shell mobile patches on postmarketOS now include verdre's latest commits for lockscreen calls, PIN entry, Gnome 44, quick settings styling, and many many stability improvements.

Linux

• PinePhone Pro: Javier mainlined the PPP's display/touchscreen support
• phone-devel: [PATCH v5 5/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-shift-axolotl: enable SLPI
• phone-devel: [PATCH v5 4/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-oneplus: enable SLPI

Matrix

Stack

• Phoronix: Mesa 23.0.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
• Phoronix: Hangover 0.8.5 Released For Running Windows Apps/Games With Wine On AArch64/POWER

Worth noting

• Personne: "8 years ago to this day, the f…" - Mastodon
• Dimitris Kardarakos: "A simple metronome script for …" - FLOSS.social
• Guido Günther: "Some of the styling for #phosh's long button pres…" - Librem Social
• Supervisor:~$ :idle:: "New Gnome-Mobile update includ…" - Fosstodon
• Chris: "I've been playing around a lot…" - Fosstodon
• LINux on MOBile: "Just noticed https://linuxphon…" - Fosstodon

Worth reading

• LWN.net: Mobian: bringing Debian to mobile devices
• Laoblog: Pinephone review: Nemo Mobile
• John_Andrew for Purism community: Another Unsolicited Review (hold onto your hats)
• /u/Galaxiomatic: 2 years later...
• /u/multilinear2: Writeup: Pinephone Pro w/keyboard running Gentoo + sway (tips, not quite instructions)

Maybe Worth watching

• Caffeine: A quick look at Gnome Mobile
• mikehenson5: PinePhone - Phosh - Replace a desktop icon
• mikehenson5: PinePhone - Phosh - Arch Linux - Update the ADSP version running the Biktorgj firmware
• Alexander Black: Librem 5 ,version 1 Evergreen.
• Cloud: Pinephone battery test. Pmos with sxmo.
• My Happy Abby: Linux Mobile - Featuring Ubuntu Touch on a Google Pixel 3A XL (SARGO) device
• Frickelfieber: Install and setup Waydroid in Ubuntu - Use Android on your Linux tablet!
• Ino Xavier: Fairphone4 with WayDroid on Ubuntu Touch 20.04 from UBports
• Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E359: Sailfish OS – Micro G might not work for you even so it is installed
• Jolla Devices: Nokia N9 chinese: how to find the language selection and set your language.
• Twinntech: Pinephone Is it still a flashlight in 2023 Don't engage!

Thanks

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