Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (2/2023): A Maemo Leste report
Table of Contents
Sailfish OS on PinePhone gets a camera app, a new release of biktorgj's PinePhone Modem Firmware, Phoc 0.23.0, and Nheko 0.11.0.
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #78 Volume Levels
- Tobias Bernard: Post Collapse Computing Part 4: The Road Ahead
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Well just look at all these pictures!
- cordlandwehr: Running Plasma on VisionFive-2
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.102.0
- dot.KDE.org: Akademy 2023 will be held in Greece
Sailfish OS
- Sailfish Community News, 12th January, Privacy and Control
- Adam Pigg (@adampigg): "Beginnings of a #sailfishos camera app 'pinhole' for the @thepine64 #pinephone built on libcamera"
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: SDM845 no audio on Linux 6.1.3
- glodroid_manifest (GitHub): GloDroid v0.8.2
- Gerben Jan Dijkman: "I've found out that I made an "huge" error in my PinePhone Pro Documentation. …"
PinePhone Modem Firmware
- biktorgj Modem Firmware: 0.7.2: Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. Stuck messages have been ruining some peoples experience, so this is a big release!
Stack
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-01-13
- nheko (Matrix): v0.11.0
Worth noting
- megi's PinePhone Development Log: Pinephone cpuidle
- related postmarketOS Issue: cpuidle broken on pine64-pinephone (#1901)
- Guido Günther: "As the last component of the 0.23.0 release set #phoc 0.23.0 is out, fixing the pixman renderer to help #CI testing, running in #qemu and platforms that can't or don't want to use GLES2. If you don't need any of these it's safe to wait for 0.24.0. …"
- Guido Günther: "Some progress to handle notches / cutouts of #linuxmobile phones better in #phosh…" - Librem Social
- Mobian: "Knock knock, who's there? An experimental kernel package that works on both the OG #pinephone AND the #pinephonepro !…". Awesome!
Worth reading
- Camden Bruce: Nearly three years with the PinePhone.
- Maemo Leste: Maemo Leste - New Year update: May 2022 - January 2023
- Purism: Phosh 2022 in Retrospect. Yesterday, I used a "pre-gesture release" of Phosh and wow, 2022 was a year of massive progress for Phosh!
- Purism: Spreading Awareness about Purism in 2022
- Alberto Mardegan: Back to Maemo!
Worth watching
- Nicco Loves Linux: KDE on the Linux E-INK Tablet! PineNote!
- The Linux Experiment: THIS is why I'm LEAVING ANDROID
- Lup Yuen Lee: #LVGL on #PinePhone on Apache #NuttX RTOS ... Increased the Default Font Size from 14 to 20 🤔
- Lup Yuen Lee: #LVGL on #PinePhone with Apache #NuttX RTOS ... Works much better now! Always use lv_port_tick 👍
- Lup Yuen Lee: Tweaking #LVGL Settings for #PinePhone on Apache #NuttX RTOS ... To make it more Touch-Friendly 🤔
- Linux Stuff: Playing Cuphead on the Juno Tablet
- Scientific Perspective: PostmarketOS inside chroot | Ubuntu Touch #shorts
- Repair A2Z: Ubuntu Touch Linux OS Redmi4x | How to install Ubuntu Touch #linuxOS #UbuntuTouch
- Continuum Gaming: Microsoft Continuum Gaming E347: 3 (sort of) puzzling games
- DHOCNET: PostmarketOS Native Linux Running On Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime | wt88047 2GB of RAM
- Twinntech: Pinephone is a CULT
Thanks
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