Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (20/2026): Adding a Plus
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Linux App Summit 2026 is a over (but you can watch talks if you missed it), FuriLabs launches the FLX1s+, an improved FLX1s promising better cameras, Phosh 0.55.0 is out, the Sovereign Tech Fund is investing over €1 million in KDE software development, and way more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- FuriLabs: FLX1s+ Is Coming. Better cameras are always welcome, am I right?
- etbe – Russell Coker: Systemd, Mobile Linux, and Containers
- etbe – Russell Coker: Packaging Amazfish for Debian
- Gridranger: Mobile OSes (featuring Fairphone 5). Just including this for the retro style.
- foss2go.com: Ubuntu Touch: The History of an Open Mobile Operating System
- foss2go.com: UBports Releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 with Bug Fixes and Desktop App Improvements
- Purism: Purism’s Product Philosophy in an Age of Government–Big Tech Convergence. Fluff!
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 190. In-Person Recording!
- The Linux Experiment: UBUNTU TOUCH in 2026: it's almost there!
- SSTec Tutorials: Ubuntu Touch OS Install on Android Phone (Fairphone 5)
- проклятый линуксоид: The subscriber is now a Linux user! Droidian review.. Russian, including as there aren't that many recent Droidian videos.
- SSTec Tutorials: Run Android Apps on Ubuntu Touch Linux Phone!
- SSTec Tutorials: PosmarketOS Linux Setup on Android Phone (Fairphone 5)
- Hack Around: Turning a Doogee U10 Android Tablet Into a Linux Machine Repo, hn discussion Old Phosh, powered by Bookworm!
- Adventures of Illya: The Uconsole Full Build Assemble Your Own Cyberdeck!
- Michael Tunnell: Interview with GNOME and KDE on the Future of Linux Apps
LinuxAppSummit Stream Dumps
- Linux App Summit 2026 - Day 1
- Linux App Summit 2026 - Day 2
- Schedule for reference. I particularily enjoyed the talks by Sebastian Wick, Tobias Bernard, Evangelos Paterakis, Petr Hodina, Alyssa Ross, Adrian Vovk, and Jorge Castro!
Worth Noting
- sri: @AleixPol and I were on a podcast by @MichaelTunnell talking about @LAS ! Check us out! 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0P0bue8AKMThanks for having us on!#events #linux #opensource #gnome #kde
- xenons: Just launched https://linuxphone.io It’s a new forum dedicated to Linux phones—discussion, troubleshooting, apps, hardware, and everything in between.If you’re into PinePhone, Librem 5, or postmarketOS and have a question, feel free to ask it there. #linuxphones #linux #linuxmobile
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Mobile Linux Matrix Uber Space
- UndeadLeech: Apparently the Fairphone 5 microphone not working with automatic wireguard call profile switching was just a race condition with q6voiced: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/q6voiced/-/work_items/3 This means I now have calls working at a usable level with great quality on the Fairphone 5. Since ArchLinux users must love the bleeding edge, I'm shipping this as default with my packages, so it should work out of the box going forward: https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/catacomb_packages/commit/3150b440e4050516b180a17ce2b8244198e5c301 #linuxmobile #archlinux #fairphone #catacomb
- longnoserob: PSA for the sdm845-users in @postmarketOS running edge: linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845 was just updated to version 7.1!#mainline #mobilelinux #postmarketOS
- GrapheneOS: "Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security.". Could not agree more!
Events
- phosh: Short reminder: Next #Phosh community gettogether is next Tuesday 19:00 CEST: https://ev.phosh.mobi/gettogether/ . Hope to see you there!
- tbernard: Some photos from #BoilingTheOcean 11 this week! My highlights in terms of topics:- discussed what would be needed to move system updates to GNOME Settings- p2panda-gobject workshop- Emergency calls and health information- strategy discussons on initial stable GNOME OS branch- Git client UX discussion- sparse file swap hack to avoid running out of memory
More Software News
Distributions
- Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: Missing simg2img does not cause a build error
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: losetup upgrade results in boot failure
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: OpenRC may hang on boot or shutdown with Plymouth
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: DTMF tones are broken on the PinePhone with latest ModemManager
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): New monthly blog post is up!"postmarketOS in 2026-04: new boot splash"https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/05/10/pmOS-update-2026-04/#postmarketos #linuxmobile
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 4 (SM7775)
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2026-04: new boot splash
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: New financed postmarketOS project: q6voice(d)
Apps
- Sjoerd Stendahl: Graphs 2.0 is out!
- UndeadLeech: "Charon 1.8.0 changes the default tile size from 256 to 512:https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/charon/refs/v1.8.0While this is mostly a lateral move, it simplifies the offline tile archive generation. Instead of 8+ hours of requesting tiles from a server, I can now render 75k+ tiles locally in under 10 minutes. This should make it easier to fulfill offline tile addition requests.#linuxmobile #catacomb #maps"
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: A Personal Note - Farewell
- bjawebos: 🎞️ Filmbook v0.3.1 is out — now on Flathub! 🎉Hello & welcome to all language communities:🇬🇧 Hello · 🇩🇪 Hallo · 🇨🇿 Ahoj · 🇩🇰 Hej · 🇪🇸 Hola🇫🇷 Bonjour · 🇮🇹 Ciao · 🇯🇵 こんにちは · 🇵🇱 Cześć🇵🇹 Olá · 🇷🇺 Привет · 🇺🇦 Привіт · 🇸🇰 Ahoj!Manage your analog film photography 📸👉 https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.bjawebos.Filmbook🌐 Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/filmbook#Filmbook #Flatpak #GNOME #AnalogPhotography #FOSS#linuxmobile #phosh
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #249 Quality Over Quantity
- Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-05-15
- Phoronix: GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With "Resources" App
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.55.0
- phosh: phosh 0.55.0 is out 🚀📱:There are multiple 🐛 fixes and some new features.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.55.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone
- phosh: "We wanted to get rid of the hard coded users in our nightly image builds so we added a small first-boot app that allows to configure the language, on-screen keyboard layout and user. For that we split some widgets out of mobile settings and @rudraps added #rust bindings for it.5/x"
- phosh: Shoaib and Richard Banda got #Phosh working on the #MechaComet by @mechasystems with @fedora :
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: 6.7 beta release
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Release
- KDE Announcements: Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6.5, Bugfix Release for May
- tsdgeos: KDE Gear 26.08 release schedule
- kde: "Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development@sovtechfund's investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.http://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kdehttps://www.sovereign.tech/tech/kde#investment #sovereigntechfund #development #DigitalSovereignty"
- Qt blog: AI Assisted Design in Qt Design Studio: AI Assistant Just Got Smarter
- Qt blog: Introducing the Documentation MCP Tool for Qt
- Phoronix: Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications
- Phoronix: Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, May 14, 2026 - Ascension Day
- poetaster: Announcing version 1.3.5 of #tooter your friendly #SailfishOs mastodon client. Bug fix release for Search (tags/persons) and internal link resolution bug.Also announcing versino 1.0.6 of the DWD, German weather service, app which adds the ability to organize stored locations and corrects location header displays for long place names. Exciting. Truly exciting stuff.Both are built on github, dwd is live in chum, tooter is coming to chum and the harbour queue seems to be ....
- ilpianista: Since my first submission to Harbour, the #Jolla Store, (and that was 9 years, 11 months ago!) I’ve missed email notifications for app reviews (AKA comments). Not anymore: I wrote a Prometheus exporter to receive alerts when I get a new review. As a bonus, I now have historical data for my apps: https://scarpino.dev/posts/harbour-exporter-a-prometheus-exporter-for-the-jolla-store.html#SailfishOS
- frankps: It feels like a lazy Sunday, but it's Thursday and a new Sailfish Community News is out. Read about TOH, 5.1 and great work on more low level stuff, like network, communication and telephony stack, Gecko web rendering engine and multimedia improvements.#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity #LinuxMobile @jolla https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-may-14-2026-ascension-day/29578
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 190 call for questions.
- UBports - Development - Issues: lomiri-gallery-app: sync packaging from salsa.debian.org
- UBports - Development - Issues: [24.04-2.x] Keyboard indicator's "Show current layout" does not work properly - perhaps disable?
- fredldotme: gl4es was special because the fix was made by ptitSeb from box64 fame, on his FP5.
- fredldotme: Another thing brewing: I pushed changes to ship Vulkan from libhybris and gl4es for X11 acceleration. A good compromise in terms of hardware support on Ubuntu Touch.This will be released via the hybris-2404 snap. If you require software rendering in your app you can switch it to mesa-2404 like:sudo snap disconnect the-snap-at-hand:gpu-2404sudo snap connect the-snap-at-hand:gpu-2404 mesa-2404
- fredldotme: Finalizing search, installation and removal of Snaps from within the OpenStore app- Now it lists both Clicks & Snaps in the "Installed Apps" tab- GNOME Mahjongg
- meanmicio: "Having fun developing #MyGNUHealth 3.0 and porting it to #UbuntuTouch. We need libre, privacy respecting mobile devices and operating systems. It's time to liberate ourselves from #Google and other tech giants if we want digital sovereignty in in Europe @EUCommission. PS: Thank you @volla for all the testing devices ❤️ :gnu: 🩺 #GNUHealth #OpenScience #GNU #Health #SocialMedicine"
- #UbuntuTouch: For All people who want to follow the lectures of Lomiri Codefest Live #Lomiri #Linux #UbuntuTouch #OpenSourceScience : https://dub.sh/In0Yk5a
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: usb: ci-hdrc-usb2: allow up to 3 clocks for qcom,ci-hdrc
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 02/10] dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: add qcom,msm8960-sps-sic
- Phoronix: Linux Kernel Adds Documentation For What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks
- Phoronix: Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake
- Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization
Stack
- Bart Piotrowski: How does Flathub even work? The CDN and caching layer
- Michael Catanzaro: Flatpak Sandbox Escape via Yelp
Matrix
- Matrix.org: Announcing the candidates for the 2026 Governing Board elections
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-05-15
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector
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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