Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (17/2026): Slow Seventeen
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A quieter week in GNU-like mobile Linux land: Ubuntu Touch 24.04 1.3 call for testing, Jolla open-sources the Sailfish OS Mastodon account integration, Kumo 1.7.0 lands with Servo (in addition to WebKit), FuriOS receives a noteworthy update, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- FuriLabs: Update 14.0.2
- Modal: Reflection Spring Update — Modal Collective
Worth Watching
More gaming than usual!
- orailnoor: I Turned My Android Phone Into Real Linux PC — Not Samsung DeX
- Link4Electronics: Let's postmarketOS a phone and use AppImages
- RETROVIDEOJUEGOS TV: ROCKNIX on the ANBERNIC RG DS! 🚀 The ULTIMATE system or is it still too early?
- ETA PRIME: Valve Just Changed Handheld Gaming FOREVER! Steam On ARM Is Awesome!
Worth Noting
- UndeadLeech: "Took me a bit of time (and ~$15 worth of Flathub CI costs) to figure out, but a Flatpak of Kumo with Servo support is now available:https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.catacombing.kumoDon't use Flatpak myself, but I'm kinda curious if Servo works with the Flatpak.#catacomb #linuxmobile"
- ppulfer: "A very quick mini review of running a #flx1s by @furilabs as a daily driver:Part 1- There is an additional button called "assistant", which lets you configure quick press, long and double press, handy for quick shortcuts like screenshot and camera- Android container comes with MicroG and #froid and can start automatically (amazing to receive whatsapp notifications).- GPS works for the android container, great for navigation with Organic Maps!#linux #phone #mobilelinux"
- pi_crew: "Yay mainline kernel booting on Samsung Galaxy S8, port by @ivoszbg #postmarketOS #LinuxMoile"
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Would it be possible to dumb down a linux phone?
Events
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): 📍 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: Howdy Community! 👋👋LinuxAppSummit's venue is filling up! Secure your place at the conference by registering at https://linuxappsummit.org/register!Our schedule will soon be published. Follow to find out the great talks we will be having around applications on the Linux platform.#kde #gnome #opensource #apps #linux #events #fedievents @LAS
- LAS: "Help move the Linux application ecosystem forward!The Call for Volunteers for Linux App Summit 2026 is open!Sign up and help make this year’s summit happen.For more information and registration, contact us at: info@linuxappsummit.org#Linux #OpenSource #Apps #KDE #GNOME"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #246 Offline Dictionaries
- Jakub Steiner: Revert That Vector Nonsense!
Phosh
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency
- Zamundaaa: Automatic brightness in Plasma
Sailfish OS
- Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 7th May 2026
- Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Mastodon account integration source now available on GitHub
- #sailfishOS: Can you find the easteregg ? #sailfishos #rfid #hacking #opensource #chameleonultra https://build.sailfishos.org/package/show/home:nielnielsen/harbour-chameleon-ultra
- #sailfishOS: @Deckard1 Me too!Signal ➡️ WisperfishIvory (Mastodon) ➡️ Tooter βCoMap ➡️ OSM ScoutAuthenticator ➡️ SailOTPFor GMail (inc chat) & my Bank & car’s app will try the Android version 🤞Seems there are issues with #Dropbox 😬For others, hope there’s an Android equivalent or one day native #SailfishOS versions: Imiwa? (Japanese/English dictionary), Tsurukame (one of many WaniKani clients for Japanese kanji drill), Google translate (for text via camera).
- #sailfishOS: Dont forget. You can support my work on #sailfishos https://paypal.me/nieldk Actually if you like me at all 🤭
- #sailfishOS: I've given my #SailfishOS Hacker News client a bit of a revamp... hard to believe it's already 11 years old!
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports Forums OS: Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3
- sunweaver: "Fre(i)e Software GmbH is still/again searching for more Lomiri developers (or developers with a deep Qt 5/6 background). No AI-assisted hacking possible, (un)fortunately, rather real coding skills are required. You need to be able to present some references of earlier OSS project contributions, too. Please get in touch!https://freiesoftware.gmbhSee also:https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/153"
- UBports - Development - Issues: Implement missing client-side dial tone/ringback tone for VoLTE calls
Distributions
- craftyguy: Soooo... I spent a great deal of time yesterday trying to figure out why pmOS duranium images were breaking fastboot mode on the OnePlus 6 / 6T. This did not happen with mutable pmOS images. This wasn't caused by us using u-boot to EFI boot on this phone.Wanna know the reason? Are you sure? Because here be dragons...
- Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: Draft: Add intial support for msm8953 based devices.
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): PineTab2 users can now flash U-Boot to SPI flash with uboot-pinetab2 2026.04-4.Once you got the update, run the following update to install U-Boot to SPI:sudo update-u-boot -b pinetab -d /dev/mtd0You have to run this command on every U-Boot update as we do not update the SPI automatically.#PineTab2
- Phoronix: Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week
Apps
- UndeadLeech: "Just released version 1.7.0 of Kumo:https://github.com/catacombing/kumo/releases/tag/v1.7.0The most significant change is the introduction of Servo as an optional rendering engine besides WebKit.Originally wanted to give this some more time to cook, but my hand was forced after updating my WebKit fork to the latest version of WebKit.Easiest way to try is Flatpak, it should be available there in a couple hours.#linuxmobile #linux #catacomb #servo #rust"
- senderolinux: Enjoying music on a OnePlus 6T running #postmarketos with the beautiful Jellyfin client Finamp #linux #mobilelinux @jellyfin @postmarketOS
- nekohayo: "If you've been testing GTK/libadwaita applications on a touchscreen and experienced difficulty pasting text using only the touchscreen, I believe I have now filed the bug report you are looking for: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/8172#UX #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #GNOME #libadwaita #GTK"
- schmiddionmobile: "Pipeline version 4.0.0 was released, overhauling downloading videos completely, and adding a history page. There were also many other changes done, which you can read about in the changelog.Note that this release contains a breaking change for users of external video players. By default, Pipeline does not ship with the required permissions to spawn external programs anymore. You need to manually grant those permissions, as detailed in the preferences dialog of Pipeline.https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#400---2026-04-22"
- björn: Ich habe die Woche etwas herumgespielt mit #MeshCore. Als App bietet sich Meshy an, welche gerade sehr aktiv entwickelt wird. In Kombination mit dem Tracker Sensecap T1000-E und meinem Linuxphone #OP6 mit #Mobian und #Phosh funktioniert das richtig gut.https://meshy-app.orgMehr zu MeshCore unter https://meshcore.io/#LinuxMobile
Kernel
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Is Performing Well Overall In Early Benchmarks
- phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/4] iio: adc: qcom-pm8xxx-xoadc: add support for reading channel labels from DT
- phone-devel: [PATCH RFC v2 00/11] media: qcom: venus: add MSM8939 support
- phone-devel: [PATCH 1/2] drm/panel: Add atomic versions of panel ops
Stack
- Phoronix: Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support
- Phoronix: GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM Policy
- Phoronix: Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware
- Phoronix: Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland
- Phoronix: Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-04-24
- Matrix.org: Matrix Governing Board report, April 2026
- Matrix.org: Matrix Community Events and the Matrix Community Summit
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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