Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (18/2024): News on Sailfish OS and Plasma Mobile
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It's Plasma Mobile Week (somehow): Devin gets interviewed in another excellent episode of the postmarketOS podcast, Bart starts daily driving and writes an excellent blog post. Outside of Plasma news, there's also improvements to Phosh, libcamera progress on the Librem 5, and also some videos. Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Bart Ribbers: Daily driving Plasma Mobile. Make sure to take the time to read this!
- QCSuper: Capture 2G/3G/4G/5G Radio Frames with Qualcomm Phones
- janvlug.org: Two years of daily Librem 5
- Akselmo: Family of free and friendly open source software
- Colors of Noise: Colors of Noise: Free Software Activities April 2024 Thank you, Guido!
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS podcast: #40 INTERVIEW: Devin Lin (of Plasma Mobile Fame)
- Plasma Mobile: postmarketOS podcast
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E415: Sailfish OS – Löve2d Gaming Engine
- CyberPunkEdu: Waydroid on KDE Plasma Mobile - PostmarketOS 23.12 - OnePlus 6t (2024-05-02)
- Drexel Macintosh: BlueBerry: An Open-Sourced ZMK Firmware, Detachable BlackBerry Bluetooth Keyboard for Android!
- sigmagammalabs: Gigaset GX290 mit Ubuntu Touch Version 20.04. #smartphone #linux #ubuntu #touch #screen
- Techlore clips: Why We Don't Recommend Linux Phones
- Switched To Linux: Manjaro Plasma on the PinePhone
- Purism: Hardware Encrypted COMSEC Bundle by Purism
- lokjhte_old_phone: Droidian OC | Xiaomi Mi A2
Worth Noting
- #LinuxMobile: Just want to quickly share with #linuxmobile folks that the new #libcamera softwareISP does indeed work with the #librem5 - and with a #PipeWire + #GStreamer pipeline. Here's a first image running Warp (from Flathub).There's still some stuff to iron out to make this work reliably and ship to users - but things are falling into place.
- Lemmy - linuxphones: [Discussion] How can we entice companies to port authenticators/financial apps?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Ubuntu Touch progress on VoLTE and 5g
- #LinuxMobile: #BitRitter now has support to open links from the detail page (or copy them). Also, Custom fields are shown on the detail page.To smooth the overall experience, i got a basic search filter working, so you don't have to scroll to your desired #VaultWarden entry.Check out the latest main at https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter .If you try it out on your #LinuxMobile device and the list/detail-ratio is off, please open an issue (preferrably with screenshot attached) so i fix it.#MobileLinux
- mbruchert: "Made the #MarkNote editor actually work on mobile:…" Nice!
- drakulix: "Yes! Finally got @cas old hacks rebased on the newly upstreamed panel driver for the #pixel3.…"
- PINE64official (Reddit): A rapid-fire comparison of the Pinephone OS's in 2024.
- PINE64official (Reddit): Pinetab-V availability
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: How knowledgeable do I need to be to operate the Librem 5 for basic needs?
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Accessories for Librem 5
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: How to make flatpak or even system packages use SD card
- #LinuxMobile: The #Librem5 is now on sale for US$ 599. The same price as when during the crowd funding.https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-flash-sale-at-599/#LinuxMobile #FOSS #phone #Linux #opensource #privacy
- #MobileLinux: Hardware PGP-encryption on the #Librem5 #Linux phone by #Purism is now working!I will test this soon.https://puri.sm/posts/hardware-encrypted-comsec-bundle-by-purism/#privacy #encryption #PGPphone #openPGP #chat #phone #FOSS #chatcontrol #MobileLinux
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Installing #postmarketOS from postmarketOS, shot on postmarketOS#ShotOnPinePhone
- Guido Günther: I remember how nervous I was when (in early 2020) I went to the post office with my #Librem5 📱 to drop off a 📦 and present the barcode on the phone. (Having previously scp'ed the pdf to the phone to show it in evince).Would the 🔋 last? Would it overheat? Would the display stack hold? It worked.Nowadays I don't spend a thought: Fill in the data on my laptop, save the pdf, have it synced automatically via #syncthing to #phosh's ticket-box folder and show it at the counter. ✅ #LinuxMobile
- @fizzo: Lately I’ve been really hooked on #balatro.I found out it uses the #löve2d engine, and I remembered something about Löve games being unintentionally cross platform.And here we are: Balatro running natively on #linuxmobile (OP6 + #postmarketos + #phosh )To run:* Copy Steam game files from other PC using manage/browse local files* Install Löve
sudo apk add love* Run the gamelove Balatro.exe#linuxgaming
"Hardware"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #146 Editing Markdown
- Planet GNOME: Guitar Builderings
- Planet GNOME: Outreachy May 2024: A letter to Fedora applicants
- Planet GNOME: GNOME will be mentoring 8 new contributors for Google Summer of Code 2024
- Sonny: Workbench 46.1
- Phoronix: GNOME Shell's Layout Being Improved For Smaller Displays
Phosh
- Phosh (Mastodon): @arunmani recently added folder support to #phosh 🚀 . Here's a short demo: Awesome!
- Guido Günther: I've tagged a new release of mobile-broadband-provider-info:https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info/-/releases/20240407It has updated providers, support for mms attachment size and we switched the build system to meson.#gnome #phosh #LinuxMobile
- Guido Günther: …and here are my #FreeSoftware bits for April: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_April_2024.html #LinuxMobile #phosh #debian
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Looking towards Plasma 6.1
- Nate Graham: Interview on Tech Over Tea about KDE’s position in the world
- KDE Mentorship: KDE & Google Summer of Code 2024
- Luis: Revamping Plasma Mobile Navigation Gestures
- Bart Ribbers: Daily driving Plasma Mobile
- TSDgeos: Send your talks for Akademy NOW!. Don't worry, I do not intend to submit anything.
- Nicolas Fella: Goal Sprint 2024
Sxmo
- @pocketvj@fosstodon.org: made an installer for it:https://codeberg.org/magdesign/sxmop6first release, will be extended with more stuff over time... #op6 #pmos #linuxmobile
- #sxmo: For past two weeks, I've been working on a script to display weather forecast from openweather in the terminal and integrated it into #sxmo and #mepo I'm happy with the result and do not plan to add more features. Don't hesitate to give it a try and report issues though ...https://git.sr.ht/~fdlamotte/OpenWeatherQuery
- #sxmo: And now I can distribute the inputhandler script along with my #sxmo forecast menu.It defines gestures for going back and forth in history, deleting an entry in history or going back to the menu ...https://git.sr.ht/~fdlamotte/OpenWeatherQuery/tree
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 2nd May 2024 - Over three years of newsletters
- adampigg: My Linux smart watch companion app #Amazfish is now available on @flathub . massive thanks to @jmlich for the flatpak version! This means it works on #SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch #ubports and regular #linux desktops. https://fosstodon.org/@jmlich/112388612730523760 https://flathub.org/apps/uk.co.piggz.amazfish
- adampigg: #SailfishOS #Ofono Day 27 - Misc updateshttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-27#pinephone #pinephonepro @PINE64
- adampigg: #SailfishOS on the @PINE64 #Pinephone and #pinephonepro has an updated kernel and ofono. Please should if it breaks and i can revert the change, but hopefully its better!!
- adampigg: https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/
- adampigg: #SailfishOS #Ofono Day 26 - Woophttps://www.piggz.co.uk/sites/pgz/blog/sailfish-ofono-26#Pinephone #pinephonepro @PINE64
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 235
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 234
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 233
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 232
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 231
- #sailfishOS: New Supported Sailfish OS DevicesThe #Sony #Xperia 10 V and 10 IV have been added to the list of supported devices on Jolla's Sailfish OS documentation website. Images for these models should be available with the upcoming #SailfishOS 4.6.0 Sauna release. However, support for the Sony Xperia X appears to have been discontinued.Link: https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices/Via community user Wunder Wungiel
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Newsletter Update
- fredldotme on twitter: Installed and quickly snapped up UXPlay for the usecase. Mission accomplished.
- fredldotme on twitter: Ubuntu Touch now has its own Screen Recorder app, freshly available from the OpenStore! https://open-store.io/app/screenrecorder.ubports
- rubenlcarneiro on twitter: Now more faster... OnePlus Nord N10 and OnePlus Nord N100. @UBports @ubuntuportugal https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android10/oneplus-nord-n10/oneplus-billie/-/commit/f4caa8333e0ccc0a1582cd45ee92f20d2cc29599
Apps
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: #Amazfish finally made it to @flathub!I haven't figured out how to keep the daemon running in the background.The app can be verified by uploading a file to https://co.uk/.well-known ;-DIt's the first Flathub version, so it has a lot of glitches. Please be kind and send patches instead of complaints.https://flathub.org/apps/uk.co.piggz.amazfish
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Elastic
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Wildcard
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Calculator
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Impression
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Lorem
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Fonts
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Citations
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Graphs
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: DewDuct
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v6 0/5] initial support for Marvell 88PM886 PMIC
- phone-devel: [PATCH v5 00/25] imx258 improvement series
- Phoronix: Linux 6.10 To Support Sound On ASUS ROG 2024 Laptops, Lenovo ThinkPad 13X
Stack
- Phoronix: Mesa's Venus Vulkan Driver Updated To Allow QEMU Support
- Phoronix: XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing
- Phoronix: SDL 3.1.2 Preview Prefers PipeWire Over PulseAudio, Fixes XWayland Mouse Warp
- Phoronix: Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries
- Phoronix: Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes
- Phoronix: Synaptics Releases DisplayLink 6.0 USB Graphics Driver Package For Linux
- Phoronix: OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-05-03
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