Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens
Table of Contents
Highlights of the past week:
- mobile-config-firefox gets user-agent spoofing in version 4.6.0 to enhance site compatibility,
- Ubuntu Touch makes progress on eSIM and VoLTE support + Snap integration in 24.04,
- Another collection of Sailfish OS Community News,
- Hardware: Liberux Nexx PCBs arrive and OnePlus 6 gets unexpected JTAG access
- Phosh 0.46.0 released with lockscreen wallpapers and a lot more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.46.0
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 3rd April 2025 - Harbour
- LINux on MOBile: MCF18: Dodging a bullet
- Purism: The Signal Noise: A Wake-Up Call for Secure Communications
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q& 162. New apps, VoLTE, eSIM, Qt6 Morph browser progress, ...
- Cuspitech: I installed Ubuntu Touch on my phone! Does it work as an alternative to Android?
- M: "Size comparison: F(x)tec Pro1 (Droidian) vs Linglong Lunar 2-in-1 keyboard (Ryzen 8840U, 32GB, 1TB)"
- Linux Galaxy!: "Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: PostmarketOS with Clayton Craft April 3, 2025"
- foss-backstage: Tobias Bernard – GNOME Design: A Report From the Trenches #FOSSDesign
Worth Noting
- carl: Qt 6.9 is an excellent release. I'm looking forward to make use of the new features in some of the applications I make :)https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-released #qt #kde
- pojntfx: "While RCS is a good way to get Apple users to communicate with Android users, it's also still a terrible communications standard and we really shouldn't be pretending it's E2E encrypted in any meaningful way atm"
- Purism community: Lib[rem5|camera] to use everywhere libcamera powered GNOME Camera on Librem 5 - even on old(stable) PureOS!
- fakeshell: "for this months updates, we are reworking our fingerprint setup entirely. the daemon (Biomd) is now written from scratch and no longer links against QT or libhybris.while at it, i ended up writing a PAM module and a provider for #Fprintd which means all existing applications that use Fprintd will now work with our service.one thing i wanted to experiment with was parallel PAM instances for stuff like sudo, so here is how far i got in about an hour#furilabs #flx1 #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1"
- Liberux: "🔍 First Look at the Bare Liberux Nexx PCBs 🔍Our redesigned prototypes have arrived completely bare! These are the raw PCBs, fresh from manufacturing, before any components are assembled.It’s been a long wait, but they’re finally in the hands of our assembler! Now, we’re excited for the next step: having them fully assembled in our hands. 🛠️✨Stay tuned for more updates as we bring Liberux Nexx to life! 🚀#LiberuxNEXX #OpenHardware #PCB #TechUpdate"
- cas: "turns out Qualcomm dropped the sources for talking to their Embedded USB Debug (EUD) peripheral, and it works on the OnePlus 6!This means we get JTAG access directly via the USB port, yes seriously!"
- kkofler: Revert "node-editor: Use NGL for exporting images" · kkofler/gtk@641268b. This is GTK 4.18, but with the old renderer to keep supporting OpenGL ES 2.0.
Events
More Software News
mobile-config-firefox
- postmarketOS mobile-config-firefox tags: 4.6.0
- ollieparanoid: ":firefox: less than 10 days after the last release --- happy to announce that mobile-config-firefox 4.6.0 is out:* Adjustments for the latest FF 137 (thanks @linmob!)* Per-site user-agent spoofing (makes e.g. youtube use its proper mobile site, thanks @dannycolin and people working on furios-firefox-tweaks! also: sad that this is needed 😵💫)* Using defaultPref() instead of pref() where possible, allowing users to override them via about:config (thanks @dannycolin!)https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/4.6.0"
- LINux on MOBile: MCF18: Dodging a bullet
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #194 Nineteen Years Old
- Phoronix: Resources 1.8 Released As A Great System Resource Monitor For GNOME
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.46.0
- phosh: "phosh 0.46.0 is out 🚀📱 :There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile1/N". Nice screenshots in this thread!
- agx: April 1st joke free personal #FreeSoftware Activities for March 2025: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2025.html#phosh #LinuxMobile #Debian #ModemManager. Impressive!
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: polish and stability
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Bugfix Release for April
- Volker Krause: FOSSGIS Conference 2025
- Volker Krause: February/March in KDE Itinerary
- KDE Akademy: Akademy 2025 Call for Proposals is Now Open
- KDE Akademy: Akademy 2025 will be held in Berlin
- KDE Eco: Preparing KEcoLab Technical Documentation in Season of KDE ‘25
- KDE Eco: SoK25 Highlights: My Season of KDE Journey With KEcoLab
- #plasmamobile: Secondo voi visto l'andazzo delle ROM alternative causa #bigG ci sarà "un'impennata" nel settore mobile per gli OS open #linux come #plasmamobile #ubports #postmarketos #gnomemobile ecc? Porterà qualche dev in piú che svilupperà app specifiche? Magari un impennata cosi grande da portare grandi realtà a sviluppare app come io 🤣🤣🤣 da meta post sto vaneggiando 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma Lands More Crash Fixes This Week, Refines Its Crash Reporting Wizard
- carl: Qt 6.9 is an excellent release. I'm looking forward to make use of the new features in some of the applications I make :)https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-released #qt #kde
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 3rd April 2025 - Harbour
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 27. @thigg's PR makes progress and spend some time examining HTTP client headers.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1256&list=newpipe
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 26. Debug NewPipe using Android Studio to figure out why Bandcamp is broken.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1255&list=newpipe
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 25. Adding search filters to search.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1254&list=newpipe
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 24. Adding a menu to switch between the services: Bandcamp, MediaCCC, PeerTube, SoundCloud and YouTube.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1253&list=newpipe
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 23. Plenty to cover today! Discussing the benefits of native builds; an upstream PR from @thigg; and the genesis of an app built around NewPipe search.Exciting stuff!https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1252&list=newpipe
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary Day 22. Working on the correct file today, getting thumbnails 🖼️ of videos 📹 returned correctly.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1251&list=newpipe
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 162 call for questions
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 161
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 160
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 159
- fredldotme: "With Snap support on Ubuntu Touch based on 24.04, you're able to just:$ sudo snap install lxd$ sudo lxd initAnd run many of the offered aarch64 containers, like openSUSE or Fedora here."
- #UbuntuTouch: Ubuntu Touch gets many improvements other than initial VoLTE support!#Ubuntu #Linux #UbuntuLinux #UbuntuTouch #UBports #Fairphone #Volla #Fairphone5 #Volla22 #TechNews #TechUpdateshttps://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/more-improvements-in-ubuntu-touch/
- #UbuntuTouch: It felt really cool to finally have a mobile (#Pixel3a) in my hands, where I could unlock bootloader! It was flawless to install #UbuntuTouch and the OS looks super awesome - its #Linux in my hands!But it took only some hours until I reached my personal end. This is way too much tinkering and compromises. Since several vendors implement their authentication only for Android, you have to keep your old phone with Android to authenticate here and there. Or you install Waydroid, and emulate it.
- #UbuntuTouch: Ubuntu on phones now receive initial VoLTE support
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: In search for a better keyboard
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: In search for a better keyboard
- postmarketOS Blog: Matrix/IRC bridge is now self-hosted
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Matrix/IRC bridge is now self-hosted
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: RISC-V Support
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Setting spanish keyboard layout on PostmarketOS with Sway
Apps
- jmlich: "Amazfish 2.6.0 has been released! #UbuntuTouch #Flatpak (and hopefully soon in the #SailfishOS Chum repo)Among other updates, there is a documentation page that tries to answer the question of what actually works—please help fill in the gaps!https://amazfish.github.io/Changes in 2.6.0:- Kospet DK08, improved Bangle.js- Auto-profile switching- Reworked pairing/unpairing/reconnect timer- UI Performance- build with cmake- many translations"
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Extension Manager
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Extensions
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Libellus
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Camp Counselor
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: File Roller
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8953: Add uart_5
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for AW8898 Amplifier
- phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Stop setting dmic01 pinctrl for va-macro
- phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/7] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add quirks for third party touchscreen controllers
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fairphone 5 DisplayPort over USB-C support
- Phoronix: Linux 6.15's New "hugetlb_alloc_threads" Option Can Help Speed-Up Boot Times
Stack
- libcamera: libcamera v0.5.0
- Phoronix: FEX 2504 Ships More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64
- Phoronix: Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI
- Phoronix: Rust Is Looking For Your Feedback To Help Guide Its Future
- Phoronix: Coreboot 25.03 Released With Support For 22 More Motherboards
- Phoronix: Wine 10.5 Brings Vulkan H.264 Video Decoding, Mono 10.0 & Bluetooth Pairing
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.312 Brings Two New Extensions From NVIDIA & Qualcomm
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-04-04
- Matrix.org: Matrix.org will migrate to MAS on Apr 7th 2025
Thanks
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