Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (16/2023): KDE Gear 23.04 and Linux App Summit 2023
Table of Contents
Also: A redesigned Flathub and a PureOS Flatpak repo, a Sailfish Report, and make sure to come to Augsburg on Saturday if you can :)
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #92 Image Printing
- TingPing: How GTK3 themes work in Flatpak
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Stomping all the bugs!
- KDE Announcement: KDE Gear 23.04 The Plasma Mobile apps are now part of KDE Gear, btw.
- Carl Schwan: Arianna 1.0.1
- rabbitic translator: Porting to Qt6 in practice
SailfishOS
Ubuntu Touch
Distributions
- Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 15 RC1
- Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Release 202304200351
Linux
Non-Linux
- Lup Yuen: NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: 4G LTE Modem
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-04-21
Stack
Worth noting
- PINE64: New community website! - help us make it better
- joao.azevedo: Gnome-screenshot adaptive (for some days now)
- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak: "chilling in the sun #shotonlibrem5 #nosliders" - Librem Social
- Robert Mader: "More hacking @ #LAS2023: imple…" - FLOSS.social
- Robert Mader: "Hacking at #LAS2023: first vid…" - FLOSS.social
- This Week in KDE: "This week in KDE: Stomping all…" - OpenDesktop Social
- caleb ×: "if you too want the smOOOth wi…" - Fosstodon
- Bartłomiej Piotrowski: "A redesign of #Flathub is live…" - Treehouse Mastodon
- Justine Smithies ~:idle: :tux:: "For all you #LinuxMobile and #…" - Fosstodon
- Joachim Breitner: "@JustineSmithies A tiling wind…" - Mastodon
- Danct12 on Twitter: "Booted @esxi_arm on @thepine64 #PineTab2.
Events
- LINux on MOBile: See you at Linux-Infotag in Augsburg, Germany on April 29th, 2023! Come by if you can!
Worth reading
- AksDev: How I report bugs
- mjg59: PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
- Lantashi: A Librem 5? - I'm Spoiled, (access through Gemini Portal)
- farooqkz: On the state of KaiOS and BananaHackers community as of summer of 2023
- Phoronix: Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps
- Purism: Introducing Flatpaks on PureOS
- Purism: Purism and SLNT Announce Partnership to Provide Security to Mobile Devices
Worth listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #30 INTERVIEW: Natanael Copa (of Alpine Linux Fame). Great episode!
Worth watching
- mikehenson5: PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro (3of5) - Phosh - Setup - Syncthing - Squeekboard - Online Accounts
- mikehenson5: PinePhone OR PinePhone Pro (4of5) - Phosh - Setup - Biktorgj - osmin - brave
- Michael Tunnell: LXQt Desktop, New SUSE CEO, Flathub Beta, PineTab 2, KDE Connect & More Linux News!
- Continuum Gaming: CG E361: Sailfish OS with AD – Can you play Android Games on a Xperia 10 III (CandyCrush to PUBG)
- Niccolò Ve: Another BIG KDE Apps Update!
Linux App Summit 2023
- Jonas Dreßler, Robert Mader, Tobias Bernard: GNOME Mobile Show & Tell, (Schedule entry) Great session!
- Volker Krause: UnifiedPush - Push notifications for Linux, (Schedule entry)
- Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile, (Schedule entry)
- Jorge Castro, Robert McQueen: Flathub in 2023 - Revolutionizing the Linux App Ecosystem, (Schedule entry)
Thanks
Huge thanks to an anonymous contributor and to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
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