Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (20/2023): Fedora on OnePlus 6 and a flood of handhelds
Table of Contents
Also: postmarketOS calls for testing, a Jailbreak for a KaiOS 3 flip phone, Nemo Mobile on yet another device, Manjaro Beta RCs for PinePhone (Pro), an update on SculptOS on the PinePhone and more!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
- First KaiOS 3.x device jailbreak: Nokia 2780 Flip | Lobsters Sadly, this device is US only, and looking at the LTE bands supported, importing may be a waste of time.
- Byte Welder: Building a handheld PC. Nice project!
- Liliputing: Beepberry is a $79 hackable pocket computer kit with a BlackBerry keyboard The Beeper user writing this Weekly Update did pre-order.
- Fedora mobility member Markus now has working Oneplus 6 builds (with a lot of help from PostmarketOS files and members).
Software Progress
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #96 Polished Settings
- Sonny: "Update on Blueprint and Workbench…"
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Preliminary HDR support
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.106.0
Maui
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 18th May, Busybox ash
Ubuntu Touch
- fredldotme on twitter: So I'm going all-in on tablet computing,,,
- fredldotme on twitter: If you're free this coming Saturday and understand German, I'll be talking about #UbuntuTouch during the @hello_volla Community Days! Feel free to join!. Link below!
Nemo Mobile
- neochapay on twitter: Welcome Qt6 on #nemomobile controls ^_^
- neochapay on twitter: https://youtu.be/M5QSIrcWhM8 Hello #nemomobile on android devices !
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: Call For Testers Help out (if you can), please!
- Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 15 RC3
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 32 RC1
- Fedora is coming to the OnePlus 6, (blog post, image) in addition to PinePhones!
Apps
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Eloitor: /* Internet */: Add Bavarder and Imaginer AI clients.
- GeopJr: "#Tuba v0.3.0 is now available,…" By now, we're at 0.3.2, but this only means that more bugs have been squashed!
Kernel
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-shift-axolotl: enable flash LEDs
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: dts: qcom: pmi8998: add and enable flash LED controller
Non-Linux
- Norman Feske: What's new in Sculpt OS 23.04 Nice!
- Lup Yuen: Inside a Smartphone Accelerometer: PinePhone with NuttX RTOS - Hackster.io
Stack
- Phoronix: Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control
- Phoronix: PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge
- Phoronix: sdl12-compat Gets More Games Working For This SDL1-On-SDL2 Compatibility Layer
Matrix
Worth Noting
- joelselvaraj: "Sensors working in Oneplus 6 r…" Great progress, made possible by Dylan and Joel. Now I need to find time to report that my OP6 is upside down in portrait/fine in landscape, right?
- r/postmarketOS: Pinephone Pro Camera Support?
- PINE64official (Reddit): PINE64: Weekly discussion | May 19, 2023 PineTab 2 might be slightly delayed.
- Purism community: Mobile-Friendly Firefox Customizations for Librem 5
- Purism community: Quick Tutorial for OnionShare (including creating and hiding desktop icons)
- Chris Vogel: "@chrichri@librem.one Now, 13 month later, the..." About Librem 5 screen protectors.
- Drew Naylor: "#Retiled v0.1 Developer Previe…"
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Just logo things (with Imaginer https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.Imaginer.Imaginer) Seriously though, what do you think?
Worth Reading
- maggu2810: OnePlus 6: Fedora. Awesome!
- Purism: Is Advanced AI a Reason to Decouple from The Centralized Internet?
Worth Watching 1
- neochapay: NemoMobile on readmi
- Nate Graham: KDE developer interviews from Augsburg, Germany, Peertube
- Volla: LIVE – Volla Community Days '23 – Day 1 -
- kajuz6: How to install AngelFish Browser on Sailfish OS 4.5!
- UnboxingTomorrow: PinePhone Unboxing: 200 Days Later - YouTube
- Edson Matheus: postmarketos interface gnome oneplus 6t - YouTube
- Anino Ni Kugi: Malakiboard for Ubuntu Touch | Maliit Keyboard But Bigger - YouTube
- Twinntech: PInephone with a SIM card May 2023 update - YouTube
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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