LINux on MOBile

Also: PineTab 2's are arriving at peoples houses, Capyloon (FirefoxOS continuation) have a new release including pre-built images for Librem 5 and PinePhone Pro, new Manjaro releases for PinePhone (Pro) and Megi is working on a new multi-boot image, this time also for the PinePhone Pro!

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

• mikroPhone Quite an elaborate setup.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #99 Overlaid Sidebars

Phosh

• Guido Günther: Finally got to look at this again and instead of just pushing down #phosh's top panel we now place the clock to the left or right based on the available space. The logic is still pretty simple but it covers the cases where we have data for in #gmobile. Will try to land this in 0.29.0.
• Guido Günther: And this is how it looks on a device with notch. Also enabled PHOC_DEBUG=cutouts so phoc renders the bounding box of these.

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: major plumbing work in Plasma 6
• Carl Schwan: Announcing Arianna 1.1
• KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.107.0
• KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 23.04.2

Maui Project

• @mauiproject@floss.social: MauiKit and MauiMan have now been ported to Qt6. https://youtu.be/BVgioWpWKtY

Sailfish OS

• adampigg on twitter: Pushed a small update to the OG @hello_volla Volla Phone and X with SailfishOS to fix the situation where sometimes when booting, the encryption wizard password entry doesnt show up, and it looks like you get stuck on the boot logo.
• aerique: "Ugh, Jolla is in financial straits again…"

Capyloon

• Capyloon: Fri 09 June 2023 Nice release, now with pre-built images for PinePhone Pro and Librem 5!

Distributions

• Mobian Blog: The Bookworm has landed!
• postmarketOS Blog: v23.06: From the GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest
  • Lemmy - postmarketOS: v23.06: From the GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest
  • LINux on MOBile: "Just upgraded my PinePhone's #…" - Fosstodon
• Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 15 RC4
• Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 33
• @dos@librem.one: PSA: If you're an adventurous PureOS user who has enabled landing repository in order to receive untested updates early, brace yourself: in a few days landing is going to start tracking Debian bookworm (instead of bullseye) and targeting PureOS crimson (instead of byzantium). It will still take some time to make crimson work, so please disable the repo! If you still want to be on the bleeding edge, consider enabling byzantium-updates-proposed instead. #pureos #purism #librem5
• CounterPillow: "Highly experimental PineTab2 Debian images…" - Mastodon

Apps

• Silmathoron: "Nice, @organicmaps is "getting…" - FLOSS.social

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-06-09
• Matrix.org: Introducing Third Room TP2: The Creator Update

Non-Linux

• Lup Yuen Lee: NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Feature Phone UI in LVGL, Zig and WebAssembly

Stack

• Phoronix: Mesa 23.2 Receives Asahi AGX Gallium3D Changes For OpenGL 3.1 + GLES 3.0
• Phoronix: libei 1.0 Released For Better Supporting Emulated Input On Wayland

Worth Noting

• Jan Wagemakers: "Some time ago I bought a #shif…" Dual booting FTW!
• r/MobileLinux: @jeffalyanak demoing Arch on the PineTab 2
• PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Feature Phone UI in LVGL, Zig and WebAssembly
• PINE64official (Reddit): PineTab 2
• PINE64official (Reddit): PineTab 2 feels very close to premium
• Purism community: Librem5 as Work Phone
• @calebccff@fosstodon.org: stepping up the boot splash game with this awesome animation from @tbernard !#postmarketOS
• neochapay on twitter: New UI of Aurora OS (ex SFOS RUS) #sailfish #mer

Worth Reading

• Megi's Development blog: 2023–06–09: Multi-distro image supporting both Pinephone and Pinephone Pro Looking forward to the image!
  • Liliputing: Megi's PinePhone multi-distro image is getting PinePhone Pro support (test many mobile Linux distros with a single microSD card) - Liliputing
• Phone upgraded to Debian 12 – Jonathan Carter
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Better packaging information: Thank you, Repology!
• Trad Catholic: Purism & Pine64 Have A Roadblock To The Success of Linux Phones - Librem / Phones (Librem 5) - Purism community. Not sure.

More Discussion about Flatpak

• The Evil Skeleton: Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”
• Alatiera: You are not actually mad at Flatpak
• Aks.dev: My thoughts on Flatpak (that nobody asked for)

Worth Watching

• RTP Tech Tips: Pinetab2 Internet Option: Sharing Wifi By Ethernet
• RTP Tech Tips: Pinetab v2 Unboxing Part 1: Opening Impressions
• Bitter Epic Productions: My Thoughts on SXMO #sxmo #linux #pinephone #review
• Bitter Epic Productions: LinuxPay #linux #pinephone #comedy #phone
• Bitter Epic Productions: A look at SXMO on my PinePhone Pro. Plus Blender!
• Capyloon: "A video (or 3) being worth mor…" - Fosstodon
• prestonzen: Unboxing The PinePhone Pro First Look
• Anino Ni Kugi: Lomiri Plus - A Collection of Hacks | Ubuntu Touch
• Jacob David Cunningham: Pine64 PineTab 2 ARM unboxing and initial impression
• Roland Lemmers: Pine64 PineTab2, Pine64 PineTab2 working.

Thanks

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