Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2024): Phosh 0.38.0 and other news
Table of Contents
Aside from a release of Phosh 0.38.0, that notably also contains a release of Squeekboard, we have a Community News Roundup for Sailfish, a UBports Newsletter, and many other little things, including a way to run Palm OS applications. Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- JustSoup321 Development Blog: Click Clack Flatpak
- JustSoup321 Development Blog: Lomiri: The Final Frontier (And Old Friend)
- Sovereign Tech Fund: xz incident shows the need for structural change
- LINMOB.net: How I fit many flatpaks on my Librem 5 with PureOS Byzantium
Worth Listening
Worth Watching
- Arbitrary Tech: Linux Phone 2024 Update/Review (SailfishOS) - YouTube
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E411: Sailfish OS – "Daily Comics"
- Switched to Linux: Postmarket OS and Gnome | Pinephone
Worth Noting
- Oliver Smith: "Update on the optional systemd integration into postmarketOS…"
- caleb: "with how complex in-kernel USB type-c support is it's no wonder that on newer platforms Qualcomm (and before them many other vendors) decided to just handle it all in firmware.…"
- Marcel T.: "If there is some #dotnet developer interested in #GTK4 bindings, dislikes warnings like me and has some spare time to support a small size #OSS project feel free to stop by at https://github.com/gircore/gir.core…"
- dcz: "@NGIZero Thanks for acknowledging my application!…"
- Codemaster Freders: "The good old Xperia X from 2016, running the Tide WebAssembly IDE, in a Snap, on Wayland, with Qt6. Couldn't be happier.…"
- Krille-chan ☑️ [FluffyChat]: "Right now there are several problems with the flatpak version of #FluffyChat. 😭…"
- Tobias Bernard: "Some impressions from the GNOME 46 release party at @offline yesterday. Thanks everyone for joining, it was great 🫶…" - Mastodon
- Guido Günther: Free Software Activities March 2024
- Elias: "Oh look, it's Saturday! A perfect time to start donating to Phosh: https://liberapay.com/Phosh/…"
- Hi. I’m user0, creator of #MobileFriendlyFirefox (#FriendlyFox), and I'm #trans 🏳️⚧️ [she/her] … Any donations would be greatly appreciated
- PinePhone (Reddit): Modem and wifi dont show up.
- Purism community: A L5 Review: 1 Week to My "Ready to Ship" L5 Anniversary
- Purism community: Stability, oopses, and traces of the Librem 5 - statistics and details
- Purism community: Working script that suspends heavy processes when screen off but looking for event to suspend processes when locked or call in progress
- Purism community: I'm Out (for now)
- Purism community: Rear camera resolution blocked at 3 MP instead of 13 MP
- @dubstar_04: Can anyone recommend a lapdock?I want a machine to use with a Linux phone, steam deck, Samsung Dex and to manage a server.Review of available lapdocks suggest they all have hardware flaws. This is an area where @PINE64 or @frameworkcomputer could make a difference.#SteamDeck #lapdock #linuxmobile #dex
- @chfkch: #BitRitter is not even released yet - though it almost is in a state to grant the public access for early testung - and yet it seems it already lands in #PostmarketOS edge/testing soon.This is just awesome to see the #FOSS ecosystem at work, helping each other out and such.I hope one day i can daily drive #LinuxMobile and i am doing my part.
- migueletto/PumpkinOS: PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. Quote: "It is not your average PalmOS emulator (it does NOT require a PalmOS ROM), but it can run m68K PalmOS applications." I wonder if this can be run on aarch64!
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #142 Portalled Nautilus
- Planet GNOME: Cambalache 0.90.0 Released!
- Planet GNOME: Just How Much Faster Are the GNOME 46 Terminals?
- Planet GNOME: Documentation in Builder
- Phoronix: GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.38.0 Nice release, glad to see progress on Squeekboard!
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.37.1
- Guido Günther: …and here are my #FreeSoftware bits for March:https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2024.html#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian
- Phosh (Mastodon): #gmobile 0.1.0 is out. Besides adding support for a new device (Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite) it's also now a shared lib (as updating it in >5 projects became cumbersome):https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/gmobile/-/releases/v0.1.0
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: real modifier-only shortcuts and cropping in Spectacle
- KDE Mentorship: SoK 2024 - Implementing package management features from RKWard into Cantor via a GUI First Blog
- Volker Krause: February/March in KDE Itinerary Awesome!
- Carl Schwan: Marknote 1.1.0
- Carl Schwan: Kirigami Addons 1.1.0
- kdab: Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 4th April 2024 - Blogs
- adampigg: Finally understood how audio routing works on #sailfishos, so fixed up the OG #PinePhone call audio when using a headset, and speaker mode. Just update to get the fixes!
- adampigg: Taking a break from #sailfish #ofono hacking, with something related but different. Does VoLTE work with the @PINE64 #Pinephone and Sailfish?https://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-pine-volte
- adampigg: #SailfishOS #Ofono Day 19 - Resend Dayhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-19
- adampigg: #sailfishos #ofono Day 18 - A fools workhttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-18
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 208
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 207
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 206
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 205
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 204
- @rubdos: #Whisperfish 0.6.0 beta 25 (yes I know) is out. Finally, we have PNI and some minimal form of phone number privacy!Get it while it's hot on Openrepos.#sailfishos #signal
Ubuntu Touch
- Newsletter April 6th
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Creating Snaps on Ubuntu Touch
- fredldotme: German speakers, rejoice! I've started a new C++ library to augment your German sentences with emphasis on what matters.Introducing libscheissehttps://github.com/fredldotme/libscheisse
- fredldotme: The good old Xperia X from 2016, running the Tide WebAssembly IDE, in a Snap, on Wayland, with Qt6. Couldn't be happier.
- fredldotme: My guest blog post for Ubuntu Touch is out, hosted on the Ubuntu blog:Creating Snaps on Ubuntu TouchHyped and happy, so feel free to read it. Enjoy!https://ubuntu.com/blog/creating-snaps-on-ubuntu-touch
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: I was playing with #Amazfish today. Now, the Amazfit Neo shows Notifications. Also, find my phone now works with #UbuntuTouch. (currently in pull request phase)
Distributions
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): #phosh 0.37.1 is now in repo.This should allow Phosh to work with gnome-session 46.
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974-sony-shinano: Enable vibrator
- phone-devel: [PATCH] Documentation: ABI: document in_temp_input file
- Linux V4L/DVB mailing list: [v3,00/25] imx258 improvement series - Patchwork
- Phoronix: Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed
Stack
- Phoronix: FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI
- Phoronix: Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development
- Phoronix: Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Usage
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-04-05
- Matrix.org: Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.
mobile-config-firefox
- LINux on MOBile: MCF11: Private Browsing Struggles
- LINux on MOBile: MCF10: The Bug and the Bugfix
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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