Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (22/2023): Phosh 0.28.0 and an U-boot boot menu for the PinePhone Pro
Table of Contents
Megi has been on fire, Manjaro release another Phosh beta, a Sailfish Community Update and more!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
- NEOklacker | Hackaday.io Yet another handheld, but this one looks quite appealing to everybody into the BlackBerry form factor!
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #98 Fast Searching
- ebassi: Configuring portals
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.28.0 Great release, fixing all issues with the new power-menu introduced in 0.27.0 and more!
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: for developers
- redstrate: My work in KDE for May 2023
Sailfish OS
Ubuntu Touch
- @OyasumiBastet: [Just a reminder for those in the Linux Phone community.
There are lots of things the UBport's community and development team would love to have;
- Newer QT
- Snaps/Flatpaks
- More versatile background processes And lots more
The only way we can get there, is with more help!](https://nitter.net/OyasumiBastet/status/1663246297648750593#m)
Distributions
- Mobian Wiki: desktopenvironments - Added pictures for lomiri and some installation instructions and replaced the plasma mobile photos Documentation for Lomiri on Mobian, yay!
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 32
Kernel
- Phoronix: Qualcomm Adreno 600 Series Graphics Get OpenGL 4.6 On Open-Source Driver If you're wondering: Does this benefit my SoC? Snapdragon 845 has Adreno 630 graphics, so plenty great Linux-running smartphones are going to benefit from this.
- @calebccff@fosstodon.org: Thanks to nt8r for getting this fixed, the SDM845 devices have such long kernel cmdline that it literally broke dmesg, we love #Android bootloader...https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/2279#LinuxMobile #SDM845 #postmarketOS #kernel
Non-Linux
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-06-02
Worth Noting
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: PSA by @danctnix: https://nitter.net/DanctNIX/status/1662199534808883200#m
- PINE64official (Reddit): PineTab2s Are Shipping!!!
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Tutorial: Add a custom sound to Gnome-Clocks
- @dos@librem.one: Experimenting with utilizing assisted GNSS techniques on #Librem5. Cold fix takes about 3 minutes in perfect conditions, but can easily take much longer otherwise - that's how GPS works. However, by downloading satellite data from the Internet instead of the sky it can go down to under a minute; sometimes even just a few seconds. Still a proof-of-concept at this point, but can already tell that catching a fix gets significantly easier this way:) #mobile #gnu #linux #gnss #gps #galileo #glonass
Worth Reading
- Hamblingreens Blog: Pinephone Screen Replacement
- Purism: Librem 5 Battery Life Improved by 100%! Looks like I need to put my SIM out of the Xperia 10 III and back into the Librem 5 to test this!
- fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - June 1, 2023 Nice round-up!
- Jorge Castro: The distribution model is changing
- Martijn Braam: Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak
- a response: Sonny: "Instead of complaining about a…" - FLOSS.social Weirdly enough, I think that the authors of the three links above are fighting for the same side. Let's not turn this into a full blown fight about details, that then only makes Apple, Microsoft or Google happy (if they manage to care enough). Yes, there are issues (I would love for flatpak automagically removing unused runtimes and GNOME Software ain't perfect), but they can all be fixed!
- Megi: 2023–05–29: Touch screen and touch menu support for Pinephone Pro in U-Boot
- Megi: 2023–05–28: Some regressions in power use in system sleep on original Pinephone
- Megi: 2023–05–27: Implementing display support in U-Boot for Pinephone Pro
- Megi: 2023–05–25: DRAM frequency scaling on Pinephone Pro saves 0.5W of power!
- Megi: 2023–05–23: Boot time power consumption tracing
- Megi: 2023–05–22: Pinephone (Pro) power measurements and optimizations
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #31 Testing Team, KDE6, SDM845 Sensors, ALIT, PineNote, L10N Great episode!
Worth Watching
- sadfwesv: Pinephone Pro U-Boot with some improvements
- devrtz: Running Debian on a Smartphone
- Vega Data: Explorando o Plasma Mobile no postmarketOS
- NieRox NRX: Linux postmarketos plasma desktop on Xiaomi redmi2
- Prend Workbench: How to Build and Install PostmarketOS Linux Yourself on Supported Phones
- Lup Yuen: Testing the #NuttX Feature Phone UI for #PinePhone ... With #LVGL, #ZigLang and WebAssembly
- Unboxing Tomorrow: PinePhone Beta: I2C Breakout Unboxing
- qkall: Pinephone Pro - Arch Testing - SXMO - May 2023
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E367: Sailfish OS – How to activate the 3 rear cameras on the Sony Xperia 10 III
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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