Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (16/2026): 7 Cameras
Table of Contents
Linux 7.0 landed this week, deep-dive posts on Sailfish OS, the conference season is coming up, Plasma 6.7, KDE Gear 26.04, Servo 0.1.0, and more! Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- rubdos: My Sailfish OS Journey: Apps for my daily needs
- rubdos: My Sailfish OS Journey
- Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2026
- CNX Software: Linux 7.0 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
Worth Watching
- qkall: SXMO 2026 - Oneplus 6 PostmarketOS v25.12
- Continuum Gaming: Full Data Backups with SFOS – The app "Talteen backup" (Continuum Gaming E517)
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 188. Good one!
- Vault Vel: Installing Linux on my Motorola G5S
- Maus und Modem: Ubuntu Touch - geeignet als echte Alternative im Alltag? German.
Worth Noting
- Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Mainlining: Modem on Xperia 10 III working
- okias: Got the camera working — then gave it focus. Always focus 😉 SHIFT6mq now has proper 📷 focus, and it finally feels usable.Build it yourself (for now): https://codeberg.org/sdm845/linux#SHIFT6mq #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #sdm845
- UndeadLeech: Yesterday I fixed the Fairphone 5 audio on my Archlinux system, just for myself (afaik I'm the only user of my FP5 stuff).Within that day, @wrenix submitted a pmOS patch and 3 separate people already approved it (with Luca not even being one of them).@FestplattenSchnitzel even ported the fix to the FP4 and tested it.PostmarketOS might not be able to win me over from Arch with their software, but the community they managed to build is impressive.#linuxmobile #postmarketos #fairphone
- collabora: "Some exciting news to kick off the week: After over five years of development and collaboration across the Open Source community, initial mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed! Next up: full ISP support! 🎉 Read more about the journey: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support-for-rockchip-rk3588.html#Rockchip #RK3588 #VideoCapture #OpenSource #Linux"
Events
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: I am preparing a talk for Bratislava #OpenCamp 2026 about Amazfish and smartwatches. The conference language is Slovak, and my talk, "Otvorený svet smart hodiniek", will also be in Slovak.See you on 25 April at 14:00 in U120, FIIT Bratislava.The schedule includes three rooms and is packed with interesting topics. I’m looking forward to it.
- karen: "Get your #FOSSY26 talk proposals in by May 22 (anywhere on Earth)!Talks will be in-person at our beautiful new venue in Vancouver, BC. We want to hear about your #FOSS projects, communities, and activism! We are a small team putting this big event together in partnership with IEEE Vancouver. Please help spread the word to everyone in your #freesoftware & #opensource circles! #vancouverbchttps://2026.fossy.ca/call-for-proposals/"
- FrOSCon: "FrOSCon CfP is open!Focus areas- It’s the end of the world as we know it – Prepping for crisis with FLOSS- Unbreak your phone – A life without iOS and Android- Someone gonna pay - is it you? – Funding for Open Source- Patch it, fix it, print it – Right to repair for software and hardware- Lower the barriers – How to make OSS accessible for everyone- Who can you trust? – Making and accepting contributions in 2026👉 https://froscon.org/en/cfp/cfpapers/"
- postmarketOS: "📍 Details for the postmarketOS conference are up, as well as a call for proposals!Details:https://postmarketos.org/conference/CfP (deadline is 2026-06-30):https://pretalx.postmarketos.org/postmarketos-conference-2026/cfp"We are looking forward to your entry! No matter your background, everyone is welcome to be part of our event.Your submission can be a short talk (max. 20 mins including questions), long talk (max. 60 mins including questions), workshop, meetup or discussion round (90 mins, for other durations please contact us).The audience will consist of:- kernel hackers- distribution developers- desktop environment maintainers- activists- end usersand potentially more groups of people. If your submission targets at least one of these groups, it's probably a good one! Ideally, it would also be related to postmarketOS in some way, but that is not a hard requirement."#postmarketos #linuxmobile"
- LAS: "We’re excited to announce our keynote speaker for Linux App Summit 2026 - Lennart Poettering.Lennart will be presenting:“Adding Trust to Linux-based OSes, and what that means for the Desktop & Apps”Join us in person or remotely for LAS 2026, taking place in Berlin, Germany.Don’t forget to register at: https://linuxappsummit.org/register/"
- LAS: "Hello Linux App Fans!! 👋👋Enjoy short video of Matthias Clasen, maintainer of GTK with Sri Ramkrishna talking about LAS2026. If you love this kind of content, like our post. Watch/subscribe to our YouTube channel and watch the talks next month! :-)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne3NTNdaHjk#Linux #opensource #kde #gnome"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #245 Infinite Ranges
- Jakub Steiner: release.gnome.org refactor
- Jakub Steiner: 120+ Icons and Counting
- Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-04-17
- Matthias Klumpp: Hello old new “Projects” directory!
Phosh
- #phosh: TIL "monitor" scales in #phosh. really helpful when app isn't build for mobile screen. #mobilelinux
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.04
- Volker Krause: KDE Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2026
- #plasmamobile: Damn @plasmamobile is really good. Phosh still has more features which make it easier to use and plasma mobile is missing some features but workflow and UX wise plasma-mobile is already better.#kde #plasma #postmarketos #plasmamobile
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- rubdos: My Sailfish OS Journey: Apps for my daily needs
- rubdos: My Sailfish OS Journey
- jolla: "Big milestone for the Jolla Phone program: batches #1, #2 and #3 have now received their final payment emails.Check your email, grab your discount code, choose your accessories, and complete your order. Four simple steps and you're locked in.We promised to keep things running smoothly, and that's exactly what's happening. Thank you for your patience and your trust.#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European"
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 16 April 2026 - 5.1 translation round
- Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: [localisation] Translation round for the Sailfish OS 5.1 release
- #sailfishOS: Upgraded my Sailfish phone from Fairphone 4 to 5. WOW, what an speed improvement! And I just love the screen. Almost up and running with all my apps 😊Thank you Fairphone for giving the user freedom, and making it so easy to install alternative operating systems!#SailfishOS #Fairphone #LinuxMobile #BigTech
- #sailfishOS: Dee 0.0.4 is out with quite a few changes to the UI! #SailfishOS #lemmy
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A - call for questions.
- matis_live: Weekend project: trying to see if I can make my Rabbit R1 more useful.#ubuntu #ubuntutouch #linux cc/ @ubports
- UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 24.04-1.3
- #UbuntuTouch: Anyone out there who uses #Misskey/#Sharkey/#Catodon/#Firefish and also uses #UbuntuTouch? I have packaged #Aria for Ubuntu Touch and would like some people to test the UI scaling, keyboard, etc.#AriaApp #misskeyio
- #UbuntuTouch: Update: basic Waydroid booting. #ubuntutouch #ubports #pixel9a #mobilelinux
Apps
- Oleksii: Finally ppl can call me and I can call them via #VoIP #SIP from my #mobileLinuxBig thanks @fluxer.app
- allpurposemat: "Since switching to #postmarketOS, one of the things I missed most from Android is this curious keyboard app "Unexpected Keyboard," which lets you access most symbols with a swipe. Importantly for Linux, it has Ctrl, Tab, Escape, and arrows!I found a repo called "Unfettered Keyboard" (by @flamingradian), which is a faithful port of the base features from my favorite keyboard! I switched to #PlasmaMobile a couple days back and am so thrilled to be able to use this keyboard on it!!"
- emersion: "So apparently Flathub applies stricter rules for new submissions than for existing apps. That means I would need to do a whole lot of work to submit a Flutter app (in widespread libraries), even if other Flutter apps are already included in Flathub.I understand their policy, but this feels very frustrating from a submitter point-of-view."
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Nocturne
- UndeadLeech: "On the weekend, I enjoy committing some war crimes; as a treat.Today, I did this in the form of an experimental touch context menu implementation for Servo, since the current proposed PR didn't get any traction:https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/43725Sometimes you don't need to write a better implementation, you just need to demonstrate how much worse it could be.#Rust #servo"
- meshy: "You asked for it and we delivered. #Meshy now supports connecting to companions over WiFi/TCP, too.If you're using a WiFi-enabled companion or meshcore-proxy, let us know how it works for you."
Distributions
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Can postmarketOS use 2 kernels?
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Flatpak command broken with package version 1.16.6-r1
- newbyte: "If you're interested in a semi-beginner friendly contribution opportunity in #postmarketOS, we currently have an issue with using Podman/Distrobox in the Console terminal emulator. @craftyguy already investigated it and found a probable root cause, so either just verifying his hypothesis or sending an actual fix upstream would be helpful!See https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/work_items/4469 for more information."
- danctnix: Kernel 7.0 for #PineTab2 is now available in danctnix-testing repo. Please give it a try! U-Boot 2026.04 for #PineTab2 is now available!It's recommended to upgrade to the latest for stability improvements. :blobcatsunglasses:
Kernel
- CNX Software: Linux 7.0 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
- dos: "Linux 7.0 has now been tagged, coming with 19 commits upstreamed from the Librem 5 tree - two by NXP and the rest by yours truly on behalf of @purism. Three more are already queued for 7.1.While the mainline kernel still can't drive the display without extra patches, it's very close now 👀#linuxmobile #mobilelinux #linux #kernel #librem5 #mainline #linuxphone #linuxsmartphone #shotonlibrem5 #purism #nxp #imx8mq #cats #catsofmastodon"
- collabora: "Some exciting news to kick off the week: After over five years of development and collaboration across the Open Source community, initial mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed! Next up: full ISP support! 🎉 Read more about the journey: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support-for-rockchip-rk3588.html#Rockchip #RK3588 #VideoCapture #OpenSource #Linux"
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] media: qcom: venus: add MSM8939 support
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for GXCLK for Milos
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2] drm/panel: visionox-rm69299: Make use of prepare_prev_first
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH] drm/panel: visionox-rm69299: Make use of prepare_prev_first
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Scheduler Changes May Benefit Some Workloads
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Lands High Resolution Timer "HRTIMER" Overhaul
- Phoronix: The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement
- Phoronix: New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1
Stack
- servo: Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS versionhttps://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/
- Phoronix: Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform
- Phoronix: Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play
- Phoronix: Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-04-17
Thanks
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