Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (19/2023): Flash postmarketOS from your browser
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Yet another update from "on the road": libcamera v0.0.5, Alpine 3.18 means some busy weeks ahead for postmarketOS team members and maintainers, some Droidian love, the Ubuntu Touch port for the Xperia X improves, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #95 Overlaid Zoom
- Cantazaro: GNOME Core Apps Update
- pesader: Hello Planet GNOME!
- who-t: libei and a fancy protocol
- Guido Günther: Testing the new merge request to set lockscren wallpapers in #phosh while waiting for vodafone's hotline to please fix out internet connection (which they fail to do so for seven days in a row now).
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: These weeks in KDE: no more hidey-hidey authentication dialog games
- Nate Graham: Plasma 6: “Better defaults”. Wayland by default, yay!
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.106.0
- KDE Announcments: KDE Gear 23.04.1
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Bugfix Release for May
- Qt blog: Responsive Layouts in Qt
Ubuntu Touch
Distributions
- Phoronix: Alpine Linux 3.18 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Musl Libc 1.2.4, postmarketOS release schedule
- Martijn Braam: "So this is a thing now: https://flash.pmos.org/" - Fosstodon This is a way to flash your phone to postmarketOS via WebUSB (meaning, it only works with Chromium-based browsers). Quite cool!
Apps
- Mobian Wiki: organicmaps
- vacuumbeef: "Also I have made a little app …"
- JF: "With the new #ITD 1.1.0, you c…"
Stack
- libcamera v0.0.5. Plenty improvements all around, these release notes are worth reading!
Kernel
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add WCN3988 Bluetooth support for Fairphone 4
- WeAreFairphone: "I guess this is mainly interesting for developers…" - social.weho.st
Non-Linux
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-05-12
Worth Noting
- Release Droidian adaptation for Poco X3 Pro (vayu) with fixes included · vacuumbeef/droidian-adaptation-vayu · GitHub
- Purism (Reddit): Purism Planning to Release a New Laptop and Tablet this Year see also
- Purism community: The Case for Hibernation (Librem 5)
- Purism community: Ramifications of Purism's new flatpak runtime and repository
Worth Reading
- LaoBlog: Pinephone review: Nemo Mobile
- Newlin Tech: Librem 5 Smartphone Review You just know a review is for real when there are just renders and well known shots of prototypes for pictures!
- Home · vacuumbeef/droidian-adaptation-vayu Wiki · GitHub
- LINux on MOBile: Universal Blue (Fedora Kinoite mobile) on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 Great post and effort by Plata, I'll to look into this!
- The Evil Skeleton: Overview of Flatpak’s Permission Models
- Purism: Cybersecurity Attacks Launched From Operating Systems & Apps On The Rise
- Purism: Purism Offers Secure Private Voice & Data Services For Smartphone Owners
- Purism: Librem 5 USA Smartphone Provides Many Exclusive Security Features
Worth Watching
- mikehenson5: PinePhone (1of5) - Flash DanctNIX Arch with Phosh
- cemaxecuter: DragonOS FocalX Cellular Security Research w/ LTESniffer (ANTSDR E200, B205mini, PinePhone) part 2
- Rob Braxman: I got my Librem 5 Phone. My thoughts? + Q&A. Too long, couldn't watch.
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E363: Sailfish OS – Small tips about App updates, maintenance and hick ups
- 6adp: Xiaomi Pad 5 PostmarketOS (Linux) Part.1
- 6adp: Xiaomi Pad 5 PostmarketOS (Linux) Part.2
Thanks
Thanks to an anonymous contributor and, as always, huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
Something missing? Want to contribute?
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into the hedgedoc pad for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!