Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs
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FuriOS update 13.0.9 adds Pipewire camera support (and other things), GNOME Clocks gains boottime alarms that work while suspended, Nemo Mobile demonstrates device locking on video, Sailfish OS Community News and a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, and way, way more. Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Community News: Sailfish Community News, 17th April 2025 - Easter
- FuriLabs: Update 13.0.9
- goatwildernesscollective: "Solid furios 13.0.9 upgrade!…"
- Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025
- PINE64: April Update: Risc It For A Biscuit No phone news, but still a good read.
- PINE64official (Reddit): April 2025 Community Update
- Ergaster: Social media affect me more than I thought
- Drew DeVaults blog: Resistance from the tech sector
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 163. Home folder encryption, new Apps and other good stuff!
- neochapay: Device locking on nemomobile
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E465: SFOS – Update 5.0.0.67 for all supported devices
- Living In Harmony: 2026 global ready to go! OpenHarmony + Oniro rewrite operating system landscape of smart devices?
- Sohag H4ckZ: DanctNIX Arch Linux ARM First Boot on PinePhone Pro | Pure Linux on Mobile!
- NekoCWD: Cat printing time lapse 🐱Shot on close to mainline linux @postmarketOS Using OnePlus 6 camera and notebook GPU for video encoding Non-compresed 1.4hrs video: https://youtu.be/AFlWGR7XvR8 #ShotOnMainline #ShotOnOnePlus #mobilelinux #linuxonmobile
Worth Noting
- Adrian: "sooo our sm7150-mainline kernel (and therefore also U-Boot) currently supports…"
- peja: "Just discovered a cool feature on my GNOME mobile phone—if you tap the clock/date in the top bar, it opens quick access to the calendar, weather, and world clocks (just like the desktop version!). Really handy! 👍#postmarketos #gnomeonmobile #mobilelinux"
- VolkerKrause: A bunch of updates coming to #KDE's #UnifiedPush push notification infrastructure: https://volkerkrause.eu/2025/04/18/kde-kunifiedpush-webpush.html
- dcz: "Back to #Wayland and input methods.What's your favorite input method?Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter.https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwriTested with #cosmic and #GTK .This is just the beginning. Actually useful stuff is coming in the future. #Mobile keyboards, #Chinese input is what it's for:https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/396#dumbphone #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #CJK"
- collabora: "PanVK has reached a new milestone, and is now officially conformant with the #Vulkan 1.1 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU! 🎉 https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/panvk-is-officially-vulkan-11-conformant.html #Panfrost #OpenSource"
- dos: "The Librem 5 (and mobile GNU/Linux in general) has matured a lot over the years, but there are still some areas where the software stack is behind the hardware capabilities. Some of them are often talked about, such as camera quality or GPU (GLES3/Vulkan/OpenCL), but there are also lesser known ones in need of some plumbing and middleware infrastructure. Maybe you'll find something interesting to hack on there?1/N 🧵#mobilelinux #linuxmobile #librem5 #linuxsmartphones". Interesting thread, not just for Librem 5 users/owners!
- austriancoder: dEQP-GLES3.functional.shaders.texture_functions.texelfetch.*Passed: 24/24 (100.0%)#etnaviv #mesa
- Liberux: 📸❓ What's hiding under the cover?Next week we’ll share some big news about the development of Liberux NEXX.Want to be the first to know via email? Subscribe on our website 👉 https://liberux.net/#LiberuxNEXX #linuxphones #opensource #TechUpdate
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: X11 running on the PinephonePro under FreeBSD
Events
- KDE Akademy: Akademy 2025: Registration Now Open
- craftyguy: "A Mobile track at FOSSY was just added to the schedule! 🎉If you have a talk about free and open source software on mobile devices that you've always wanted to give, now is your chance 😁The submission thing is open until April 28:https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/#linuxmobile #fossy2025 #pdx"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #196 Dot Release
- Carlos Garcia Campos: Graphics improvements in WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit after the switch to Skia
- ar.xjuan: Cambalache 0.96 Released!
- Mat: One Year of Mahjong Solitaire
- Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, April 2025
- Revisto: Journey to GNOME Circle: Community, App Ideas, and Getting Started
Phosh
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: many many things
- Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
- KDE Announcements: KDE ⚙️ Gear 25.04
- Volker Krause: KUnifiedPush Web Push Update
- KDE Akademy: Akademy 2025: Registration Now Open
- Qt blog: QML Debugging in Visual Studio Code
- Qt blog: Qt Extension 1.4.0 for VS Code released
- notmart: Towards a transition from KWallet to Secret Service
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 17th April 2025 - Easter
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: OSM Scout for Sailfish
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: SuperTuxKart (Beta) for Sailfish OS
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 42
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 41
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 40
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 39
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 38
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 37
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 36
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 35
- #sailfishOS: Additionally, buying these devices leaves a profit at that US corporation, not at sustainable other vendors like @Fairphone or @shiftphones.So my decision is not clear so far. But #SailfishOS is also not really hardened, only a bit obscure.
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 163 Call For Questions
- fredldotme: phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ pwd/home/phablet-encrypted Finally solving this.
- os_sci: "Open Source #Lomiri is developing so fast, in a couple of years it can become the #desktop environment running on your PC, Phone, Tablet and Smartwatch. May the #foss be with you.https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/the-evolution-of-linux-desktop-managers-a-journey-from-x-window-system-to-lomiri-56"
Distributions
- FuriLabs: Update 13.0.9
- Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: README.md: Running image with virt-manager
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): Heads up: "On certain devices (Adreno-based GPUs, e.g. OnePlus 6) Flatpaks apps using GTK4 might fail to start with a currently unknown reason.As a temporary workaround, you can start flatpak apps with GSK_RENDERER=ngl as environment variable."pmaports issue:https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3655edge blog post (same text):https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/04/13/gtk4-flatpak-apps-fail-to-start/
Apps
- linuxphoneapps: "If you have a #PinePhone or another #LinuxMobile device where Firefox feels a bit sluggish, Kumo may be worth a look: https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/org.catacombing.kumo/These days installing has become a lot easier, as Kumo is now available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.catacombing.kumo"
- camiloh: Pix is coming with a new image editor for the upcoming release. #mauikit and more@mauiproject
- afranke: "Really Cool? Reasonably Complete? Rose Colored? Release Candidate, of course!#Fractal 11.rc is out.https://discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-11-rc-released/28427"
- Pascal Graber: "Tried out Highscore (formerly GNOME Games) on my OnePlus 6T via the Flatpak developer builds under GNOME Mobile — and wow, it runs beautifully on a touch-based mobile form factor! 💜🎮…"
- profdiggity: Hell Yeah we've got @privacysafe apps running on the #PinePhone #smartphone Thanks @mikalai for the photos. We'll get more website-ready ones up soon but I had to share with our #social community!!!!!!111 🥳 Stay Tuned https://privacysafe.app
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Interstellar. One for the Lemmy, Mbin etc. enthusiasts.
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: BMI Calculator
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Learn 6502 Assembly
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: GaticTacToe
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Delineate
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Hex Colordle
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: PedantiK
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Reddy
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: SemantiK
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Crosswords
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Mahjongg
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Main Menu
- Planet KDE: Haruna 1.4
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add interconnect nodes and paths for MSM8953 SoC
- phone-devel: [PATCH] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974-samsung-hlte: Add touchkey support
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Add devicetree aliases for mmc on multiple MSM8974 devices
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for Sony Xperia Z Ultra (togari)
- phone-devel: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8998: Add Kconfig prompt
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fairphone 5 DisplayPort over USB-C support
Stack
- Phoronix: Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols
- Phoronix: Linux 6.13 Series Ends With The Linux 6.13.12 Release
- Phoronix: GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week
- Phoronix: GCC 15 Compiler Branched Ahead Of GCC 15.1 Stable Release
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-04-18
- Matrix.org: Introducing Policy Servers
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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