Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2023): postmarketOS 22.12 SP2 and a Maui Report
Table of Contents
Also: Two blog PinePhone related blog posts by Megi, progress on Pipewire for call audio and on libcamera-powered video recording and more!.
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #91 Inverted Titles
- Regarding Wike being adaptive, see this issue
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: “Make multi GPU not suck”
- Maui blog: Maui Report 22
- Volker Krause: Deploying UnifiedPush on Linux
- Carl Schwan: Kirigami Addons 0.8.0
- Carl Schwan: Announcing Arianna 1.0
- Albert Vaca: The road to KDE Connect 2.0
- KDE Eco: Season Of KDE 2023 With KDE Eco: Improvements To KdeEcoTest
Ubuntu Touch
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: v22.12 SP2: The One With The Nice Pull-Down Menu
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: v22.12 SP2: The One With The Nice Pull-Down Menu
Linux
Non-Linux
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-04-14
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-04-10
Stack
Worth noting
- u/PossiblyLinux127: How is the security for linux phones?
- MobileLinux: Mobile GNOME development brings pin unlock screen
- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak: "Librem 5 waking up from system suspend on incoming calls…"
- PipeWire Project: "PipeWire 0.3.69 is out now with fixes…"
- Guido Günther: "Completely forget: I've tagged version 0.0.3 of μPlayer…"
- Cédric Bellegarde: "I was missing this since I moved from Phosh to GNOME Shell…"
- Robert Mader: "@adamplumb and everyone interested in #PipeWire + #GStreamer video recording:…"
- caleb ×: "op6(t) and SHIFT6mq users on postmarketOS edge…"
- Adrien Plazas: "I'm looking for someone to take my Metronome app over. It's tagetting @gnome and it's based on Rust and Libadwaita…"
Events
While a dedicated blog post will follow in the coming week, if you're in southern Germany on April 29th, 2023, you may enjoy this stand!
Worth reading
- megi's PinePhone Development Log: Pinephone DRM driver issues. DRM: Direct Rendering Manager.
- megi's PinePhone Development Log: Pinephone Backlight Testing
- PINE64: PineTab-V and PineTab2 launch
- PINE64official (Reddit): PineTab-V and PineTab2 launch | PINE64
- Hugo Barrera: Installing postmarketOS on a OnePlus 6 with an encrypted filesystem
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q1/2023: Easier Editing Edition
- Phoronix: Lenovo Yoga Laptops Getting Tablet Mode Switch Driver With Linux 6.4
- Drew DeVaults blog: The Free Software Foundation is dying
Maybe Worth watching
- mikehenson5: PinePhone Pro - Flash DanctNIX Arch with Phosh
- mikehenson5: PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro - Phosh - Setup - Updates - Packages
- BG2050: Porting Ubuntu Touch to my A71.. Lengthy live stream.
- Niko: PostmarketOS edge with Software Center & bootsplash, Gnome Shell Mobile w/ Gnome 44, PIN lock screen
- Jhony Kernel: Install android di nokia N900 (dualboot) maemo/nitdroid
- Marchscarf: Silly motivational bit, but it shows that I have fun in spite of my progress ~ pphone OG Maemo Leste
- artur silver: Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Droidian, com servidores, Nextcloud+OnlyOffice+Mail server+Wordpress
- Niccolò Ve: KDE Apps are GROWING!
- Twinntech: I put a SIM card in my Pinephone!
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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