Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2024): Jolla Announcements and a release of Framebufferphone
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Jolla announce the Jolla Community Phone (Jolla C2) and their plans for the future of SailfishOS and the companies, FrameBufferPhone (the interface for people who consider Sxmo bloatware ;-)) has another release, Biktorgj's PinePhone (Pro) modem firmware hits 0.8.0, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, and details on postmarketOS's systemd plans - what a week!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- postmarketOS Blog: The Road to systemd
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 23rd May 2024 - Jolla Day 2 recap. I've seen quite some pushback on the move to a subscription model (it's 5 €/month subscription for software updates, instead of paying 50€ upfront). Honestly, especially now that Jolla is no more in Russian hands and lacks the Rostelecom money, this very likely to be a financial necessity. I think it also aligns interest of users (that want continued development) and the company (that needs a continuous revenue stream) - after all, there's no App Store money or advertising revenue on Jolla's side. Regarding the hardware: I already have too many Linux Phones, so I will not add a UNISOC T606 powered device to my portfolio - to me, this phone is more a nod to the community than anything else.1
- Liliputing: Jolla's Sailfish OS is moving to a subscription model, new phone (and a privacy-focused AI device) coming soon - Liliputing
- Gerben Jan Dijkman's Blog: Gentoo On a PinePhone Pro Goes Binary!
Worth Watching
- Jolla: https://www.youtube.com/live/1nEC3sVExAU?feature=shared&t=1691
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E417: SFOS Jolla Love Day 2
- UBports: UBports Q&A 141
- Anino Ni Kugi: Ubuntu Touch | Fairphone 4
- Anino Ni Kugi: Outer Wilds The Vault Theme | For Ubuntu Touch (Lomiri)
- Anino Ni Kugi: Outer Wilds Solar System Theme | For Ubuntu Touch (Lomiri)
- Anino Ni Kugi: Outer Wilds Main Menu Theme | For Ubuntu Touch (Lomiri)
- Anino Ni Kugi: Outer Wilds Themes | For Ubuntu Touch (Lomiri)
- CyberPunkEdu: PostmarketOS Installation (Plasma Mobile) - UBports installer and Command Line - OnePlus 6t (fajita)
- The Linux Cast: I Need to Apologize... This Device is Bad
- Dirk Mittler: A lot of the pessimism about Linux phones...
Worth Noting
- @hamblingreen: Announcing the release of #fbp and #f_scripts 0.6! This marks the first #framebufferphone releases in almost 2 years, and I'm so proud of the amount of learning that went into these releases. I'm picking up where Miles Alan left off in order to create the ultimate framebuffer-based UI for #MobileLinux. Packaging should be making its way into #pmOS/#Alpinelinux soon (tm), and I've created a PR to get this UI option merged into #Danctnix Arch ARM.
- Kyle Rankin: "Burnout in the FOSS community …"
- Fiona: "Just realized why my #Pinephone sometimes takes annoyingly many tries to connect to wifi with #rtw8723cs: ..."
- caleb: "how do folks feel about switching the SDM845 #postmarketOS devices over to U-Boot?…"
- Alpine Linux :alpine:: "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.20.0, the first in the v3.20 stable series.…"
- Purism community: Satellites and gnss-share PureOS and Mobian
- Purism community: KUDOs To Whoever Fixed the Audio
- Purism community: Looking For a Good Command Line SIP Client For L5
- @cas: #Halium "Linux" phone vendors build a phone without unethically cheap factory labour and unmaintainable mediatek SoCs challenge: Impossible.#LinuxMobile
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #149 Installer Installment
- GNOME Foundation: Introducing the GNOME Foundation’s Five-Year Strategic Plan Draft
- jrb: Crosswords 0.3.13: Side Quests
- Pablo Yoyoista: Analysis of GNOME Foundation’s public economy: concerns and thoughts
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi blog: Don't unblank in my back pack please
- Guido Günther: The #feedbackd #Rust bindings are now available on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/libfeedback#phosh #gnome #LinuxMobile
- #phosh: since #phosh has added the abillity to make plugins, i'm working on a screenshot plugin which runs grim,slurp and swappy to take custom region screenshots from the screen, annotate on them and send them to people.#linuxmobile #postmarketos
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Triple buffering and other sources of amazingness
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Release
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 24.05.0
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.0.5, Bugfix Release for May
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.116.0
- Planet KDE: Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.13.0
- Planet KDE: Accessibility and a bit of automation at the KDE Goals Sprint in Berlin
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 23rd May 2024 - Jolla Day 2 recap
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 243
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 242
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 241
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 240
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 239
- #sailfishOS: #jolla reconsiders the removal of perpetual license for next #sailfishos release. That's good news.From https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-23rd-may-2024-jolla-day-2-recap/18634 Q: Are you considering keeping one-time-fee (perpetual) Sailfish license available?A: Yes, we are and also based on the feedback it looks that we keep the option for a Sailfish OS (perpetual) license with fixed fee available for all supported device models. This will be offered next to the subscription model.
- #sailfishOS: Jolla | Makers of truly competitive Linux for mobile - NEW PHONE COMING! 🤳◉Jolla is a small but spicy company on a field of relentless competition◉Due this - Sailfish OS moves to a subscription model (but it's just 5€ / month)◉New budget phone comes with 2 ARM Cortex-A75 CPU / 6 Cortex-A55 cores◉8GB of RAM / 128gt space / 4,000 mAh bat◉Pre order for €299 (incl. a 1-yr sub) & Jolla takes €50 deposit►https://liliputing.com/jollas-sailfish-os-is-moving-to-a-subscription-model-new-phone-and-a-privacy-focused-ai-device-coming-soon/@sailfishosnews #Jolla #SailfishOS #Linux #mobile #phone
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: UBports Q&A 141 call for questions
- fredldotme: Also out now on Touch: Node.jsI've packaged up Node.js to be easily installable for on-the-go development needs.https://open-store.io/app/nodejs.fredldotme
- fredldotme: Another day, another OpenStore happening. This time:Introducing Dev Tools, including various common tools for development on Ubuntu Touch, including gdb, valgrind, strace & logcat:https://open-store.io/app/devtools.fredldotme
- fredldotme: Little bit of fixing up the Screen Recorder and it works with both wired and wireless external monitors now!
- #UbuntuTouch: The last major release before development will concentrate on Webxdc is almost ready. If you want to help with testing, then🔹 backup your accounts🔸 grab the pre-release 1.4.1-pre11 click package matching your UT version and arch from here (IMPORTANT: don't install the focal version if you have xenial and vice versa!): https://codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/releases🔹 let me know if you find any bugs, strange UI etc.See here for what to expect of this release: https://codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG#DeltaTouch #UbuntuTouch
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: The Road to systemd
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): If you're updating an existing installation and conflicts from glibc-locales:glibc-locales: /usr/lib/locale/.../... exists in filesystemYou can safely overwrite them using this following command:# pacman -Syu --overwrite=/usr/lib/locale/*Happy glibc 2.39 folks!
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Ptyxis
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Fotema
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Web Apps
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Sohrabbehdani: Added Carburetor application
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: DaKnig: Added DewDuct as a YouTube client
- #LinuxMobile: I've just released v0.3.3 of Pygenda - my WIP #Psion-inspired agenda app for keyboard-equipped mobile linux devices. Main change is to move to more modern packaging, which should mean less fiddly installation & less work for me. So in theory a good time to try it out.Source/docs: https://github.com/semiprime/pygendaVideo I always share of Pygenda on a #GeminiPDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvQqFmlZ6nMDevices it should fit: #PinePhone+keyboard, #GPD, #pro1x #EeePC, #n900, #Zaurus, #CosmoCommunicator#PDA #LinuxMobile
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/2] misc: fastrpc: FastRPC reserved memory assignment for SDM845 SLPI
- phone-devel: [PATCH] dts: imx8mq-librem5: Don't wake up on volume key press
Stack
- biktorgj Modem Firmware: 0.8.0 - Did you miss me?
- libcamera: libcamera v0.3.0
- Phoronix: PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-05-24
Thanks
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Yes, this should have been its own blog post, but... time is too scarce right now, sorry!