Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (19/2024): Shift-ing to mainline
Table of Contents
Yes, this weird title is totally hardware related! Also: Another Ubuntu Touch Q&A, progress on Megapixels and libcamera, and a lot of other fun stuff! Enjoy!_
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Martijn Braam: Megapixels contributions
- Phoronix: SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch
- Lemmy - linuxphones: SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch
- postmarketOS New Devices Bot: "#postmarketOS now boots on SHIFTphone 8!…". Same SoC as the Fairphone 5, looks like a sustainable race to mainline ;-)
- caleb: "@phoronix re: the SHIFTphone 8 upstreaming, i sent the patches from my Linaro email, but the work isn't affiliated with them.…"
- Liliputing: BlackBerry Pi is a DIY project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a chunky BlackBerry-style handheld computer. When Librem 5 is just too thin, this may be just the thing ... Kidding aside, awesome project!
Worth Watching
- Luca Weiss: Capitole du Libre 2023 - Mainline Linux on Fairphone? Yes, please!
- Linux Stuff: Testing Android Auto on Juno Tab 2 (Mobian Phosh)
- UBports: UBports Q&A 140
- Anino Ni Kugi: Sapot Container | Sapot Browser Experience in Web Apps For #UbuntuTouch
- CyberPunkEdu: KDE 6 Plasma Mobile Greeter - PostmarketOS Edge (2024-05-09)
Worth Noting
- Lemmy - linuxphones: beeper's working pretty nice on #nheko
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: How to access internal storage via USB?
- @dos@librem.one: No manual editing this time, but an automatic postprocessing script using darktable-cli and rudimentary lens corrections. Takes ~30 sec to develop on the phone - about ten times longer than the default script used by Millipixels, but with much better results. #shotonlibrem5 #librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #photography
- William: "Folders: check. One-click VPN…"
- hamblingreen: "that's more like it!! one step closer to an fbp 0.6 release…"
- caleb: "@pid_eins as we get systemd integrated into #postmarketOS and improve our tooling, I hope we'll also build an immutable variant using these tools.…"
- Robert Mader: "If you want to follow the process of getting the #libcamera (with softwareISP) + #pipewire stack into place on #postmarketOS…"
- Mobile-Friendly-Firefox (Friendly-Fox) Updates: ....
- caleb: "it's conference time again... If you're at Linaro Connect this week you should totally come to my talk on Thursday …"
- Brad Linder: "We already knew that the $199 Rabbit R1 had the specs of a budget Android smartphone and ran a basic version of Android …"
- #LinuxMobile: So the 2013 era #Rockchip RK3066 tablet from the photo in my last post is now running mainline kernel with:SerialPMIC (…when CPU is told to chill with DVFS :/)SD cardUSB networkingWi-Fi yaaaaayBut not yet with:Display (TODO: driver for the scaler part of the RK610)Touch (TODO: driver for goodix,gt811)Audio (the other part of RK610, ehh)NAND flash (need help from someone who knows about this aaaaaaa can someone who knows stuff jump into linux-rockchip on libera?)#postmarketOS #linuxmobile
- #LinuxMobile: WebArchives is a pretty cool app for your Linux phone. Works well on mobile and allows you to access your own offline copy of Wikipedia and other databases through .zim files. And with the #oneplus6 128GB storage, you won’t run out of room. #LinuxMobile https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/com.github.birros.webarchives.desktop/
- #LinuxMobile: #postmarketos + #oneplus6 + #gnomemobile = Hands down the most enjoyable #LinuxMobile experience I have ever had and I've been testing #LinuxMobile since 2019. We are on to something here.I'm very tempted to daily drive...😍️😍️😍️
- #phosh: Nice end to the GoldenWeek, got sensors working on the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 !Still WIP, but sofar no troubles with #phosh on #postmarketos #linuxonmobile #linuxmobile #pmos
- Arch Linux one Oneplus 6T : r/archlinux
- #UbuntuTouch: My heart is bleeding. After 9 years using Ubuntu Touch on my main phone, I'll switch to a degoogled Android version. Too much services I regulary use implemented an app only policy or at least an only all features available if using the app policy, which kind of sucks. I ended up having two phones, but that sucks also. So in the end, I gave up.However, thank you ubports for your ongoing efforts and hard work. I'll continue to support you financially and hope to come back to UT.#ubports #ubuntutouch
- Purism community: Is Linux Addictive (Specifically the Librem 5) Nobody ask me, please.
- Purism community: Mea Culpa - back to daily driving the Librem 5
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #147 Secure Keys
- GNOME Foundation: 2023 Annual Report
- Marcus Lundblad: May Maps
- chergert: System Extensions from Flatpak
Phosh
- Phosh (Mastodon): #gmobile 0.2.0 is out 🚀 . This version adds the udev rules and first hwdb entries to mark keys and buttons as not unblanking the screen on press (like volume rockers or menu/back capacitive buttons). phoc 0.39.0 will make use of this. We moved things into a library rather than phoc itself so other compositors can make use of it too.#phosh #gnomemobile #udev #LinuxMobilehttps://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/gmobile/-/releases/v0.2.0
- Guido Günther: I needed #Rust bindings for an app to interact with #feedbackd to submit #haptic feedback. Here's the generated bindings for libfeedback in case someone else needs it too:https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/libfeedback-rs #phosh #gnome #LinuxMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: our cup overfloweth with cool stuff for you
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.2.0
- KDE e.V. News: KDE e.V. is looking for a web designer (Hugo) for environmental sustainability project
- KDE e.V. News: MBition becomes a KDE patron
- KDE Mentorship: Season Of KDE 2024 Conclusion
- Carl Schwan: Kirigami Addons 1.2
- cullmann: KDE Applications & Icons
- Kontact blog: March and April in KDE PIM
- restrate: My work in KDE for April 2024
Sailfish OS
- flypig's Gecko log: Gecko dev diary pause
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 235
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 234
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 233
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 232
- #sailfishOS: #JollaLoveDay2 livestram 20.5 https://www.youtube.com/live/1nEC3sVExAU#Jolla #sailfishos
- #sailfishOS: Bought a new phone to install Sailfish OS on it. It comes with Android 14. It's baffling to me that most people are willing to suffer all the craptitude that runs by default on Android. I had to skip and disable at least a dozen services and apps immediately after the first run setup. It's gross and I don't like it.#android #sailfishOS
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 139
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Q&A 136, 137 and 138 YouTube and Audio available
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 140 Saturday 11th May at 19:00 UTC
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 140 Call for Questions
- fredldotme: Testing file uploads
- fredldotme: The WebKit-based browser for Ubuntu Touch is getting in shape. Looking good? Looking very good!
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: GNOME SSH integration needs manual action to continue working
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): today we gained support for a new user interface... kinda. moonlight is an open source client for Nvidia game stream, letting you stream games remotely from another device. It also has a cousin (sunshine) which is an open source server implementation.The new postmarketOS moonlight UI runs the Linux app in full screen on the top of cage (the Wayland single-app compositor).It's not a polished experience by any means, but let us know if you give it a try! #postmarketOS #gaming #LinuxMobile
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: main: add gui for release upgrades (gnome-software)
- Martijn Braam: Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040
Apps
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Fossdd: add plattenalbum
- postmarketOS Wiki Recent Changes: GNOME apps
- Markus Göllnitz: "I've read it here already, so chances are you did as well. It is true: I will make Papers – the soon-to-be default document viewer in GNOME – work on mobile, while improving the UI in general. …". A W E S O M E !
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Add basic APR sound support for SC7280 SoC Audio ... yippieh!
- phone-devel: [PATCH v1 1/1] Input: gpio-keys - expose wakeup keys in sysfs
- phone-devel: [PATCH] clk: qcom: gcc-sm6350: Fix gpll6* & gpll7 parents
- Phoronix: IO_uring Bringing Better Send Zero-Copy Performance With Linux 6.10
- Phoronix: Linux 6.10 Adding TPM Bus Encryption & Integrity Protection
Stack
- Phoronix: Wasmer 4.3 Released: WebAssembly Runtime 25% Faster On Cold Startups
- Phoronix: SDL3 Adds PipeWire Camera Support
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-05-10
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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